The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
4 rEK YEAR GREg1zNa


the day and week that ushered IN
1881 may indeed be the threshold OF
= Happy New Year, and of many
happier ones to follow. Frte7 a new
year. may be said to begin for each
one of us every day, just as a new
hour begins with every tick of the
clock, but men do not soscarefully
note the fight of time. The days
and months pass away almost unre-
garded. and when the horologe is
annuolly turned by old Father Time,
we e-startled to find that another
wear of our lives has gone. In this
formal burial of the year, there is
solemnity which all the world seems
to feel 1t the season Thought
fitness, of regret and sonietimes'of
grief But it is equally the season
ofgeneral congratulation and delight
It is ph4homenally the time for res
olutions. Men, very naturally, look
back upon the year that's dead, and,
beholdingtheir wasted opportunities,
mistakes and errors, determine that
the year to come shall, when it is
is ended, show a far brighter record.
We expect to work hartbr, to. ac-
conpfsh more, to live better, to be
more useful to others and more true
to ourselves in 1881 than in 1880.
From the beginningOf time, proba-
bly,, every new year has been to the
world something like a new diSpen-
| sation. and has been immemorially
hailed as if it were to begin the fab
| uIous millennium. But this smiling
infant of Time, which he bears SO
tenderly in his arms, soon loses It's
unreal charms, and proves, alas Its
likeness to all its predecessors. Be
fore many days have passed, the
New Year becomes of the earth
earthly, as worldly and wicked as al
the old years have been, SO far as we
can trace the line into the twilight
of the past. Our resolutions are
broken on the very day we make
them, and our hopes have hardly
budded before they are blighted
But not the less do men strongly Ere
solve" for something can always be
won from time, and five did not be,
lieve that the werld will become
happier and better in the future, we
might be content that it should end
It is a poor world in many respects.
full of folly, error, crime, tyranny
evil and death-yet is the only world
we have, and it is wise 10 make the
best of it. But it is not wholly with
out merit. Even its vices make the
virtues possible. Great men are more
great for the difficulties they have
overcome, and wisdom shines more
brightly for the folly that surrounds
it.
The past year has been a period
of great political change, and it is
too close upon us for its momentous
events to be accurately measured
but they are none the less favor
able to progress, The year 1880 has
been TO the American Nation the
best of the decade it closed. Espe-
cially has it been SO to the people of
the South, and they have much to
be thankful for. At. no period in
her history has she presented so
substantial evidences of prosperity
as is now seen throughout her con
fines. The enterprise and labor OF
her people are everywhere crowned
with success. Internal improve
ments are developing the great and
inexhaustible wealth of her mineral
and forest resources, and it only re-
quires = few years of continued Of
fort and energy to place Us on firm
basis of prosperity. Let US not look
backward, bat keep in the tide that
has set in and that Will lead to for
tune and prosperity if we steer right,
Of the year to come, what story
shall be told? 1t is a sealed book,
which, page by page, we shall turn
with mingled hope and fear, and
with a trembling prayer that we may
be permitted to read to the end. It
will be full of joy and sorrow to in
diyiduals, but to the country of our
birth may it be a year Of peaceful,
progressive prosperity. Let us all
labor to make it SO, and in this find
our reward During this year we
have resolved to endeavor to print
a more entertaining and useful news
paper than we did last year. With
the new year we start with dress
of new type, and it shall be our
earnest effort to show our apprecia-
ton of what THE MoRRIsrowN GAL
JETTH has received from the public
for nearly fifteen years, by making
it still more worthy of confidence
and support in the future.
!. Gov. Neil of idaho, IN his message
10 the legislature of that TelTitsry, |
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