| Show 0 spee spec of ulle file past y year ear car IT T even the tile blind leaders of the bin bindara dvera bt binl nin ning W discern tilo the hand writing upon the fall all bil taa laa as is 61 deuced by tila ilia I 1 follows following ag eatlo edra ati frair mr ir 11 V crows til thanksgiving R g winou delivered der ia in new york nov wd and takei ikei r from hhorn the student for jan 1855 tho the sigui sigus of the anres art ars now castin casting b such shadows 0 Vs of events upon the tile di ahl if plate late of oui daxa dayA that at fi first rs t thou thought gat might fo angine imagine tha ilia alli rould dis die cun the tha folly of th the tho e devy and tum lum to but the ther wicked paal pasi on and arild are ara punished ani and who v ho can prevent it etli it remains for tho tile saints to be ever vigilant aud and or their deserts arid and mountains wiil will il cease to ba be bulwarks bulwa of defence from th the e i drunk J araking arking from the spirit of evil which la causing the wicked to stagger but bat not nol with strong drink ED I 1 the year y ar thi th i h which we hiva hivo just jest passed has bet bee beed tidore than u I 1 il by i v i ro on gri and uva SA a of liean sans flke fike VM tim flood perhaps devir in so short a space befell any people in a time of peace i the cwi ewi country parched with a drouth that reached from sroul ocean bay bas bealts dry as linder tl hiden biden and it if an 17 I 1 ot of bait bail beerd upon rip CT the ravages lre bre throughout through our forests and cities could hardly have been 1 frightful n i 1 the has bag blazed from town to town wit with h the ames of its warehouses as though the torch of ruin hid bid een passed along by a conspiracy piracy ot of destructions and what that the fare fire has left lett the water has taken 1 ocean lake late and river open sea and quiet harbor have haye hay hav united in a common tenge renge vengeance ange anee on our manne marlue and its passengers ships stranded on our oar shores hips ships burned our wharves ships foundering in mid ocean ships cleft py by horrid colli collision slony siony ships disappearing without a plank to their fate ships going down and leaving only a few iad lad messengers me bowring to wring our oar hearts eith mith with the tale of their wrecks wricks by fire tire by windy wind by fog by darkness stormy storm by explosion rich and poor natives and I 1 foreigners or young soung and old swept off in masses thousands of poor perishing in view of theland the laud land they left all to beek seek and hind hundreds reds of well known citizens in health good cheer cheel a it days daa das sail of the homes that expected them seven thousand lives Is the computed havoc of the past year rear upon our wat waters erst meanwhile if pestilence though barely barele touching our beloved city new york tork with its deadly skirts has swept through our western and Sou south thirn rn towns in fall robed majesty with garments dyed in blood yellow fever and cholera united their accursed standard ardey arday and fell tell at once ones upon communities to leave them decimated of their best inhabitant ir lut int iut I xit lit worse althan elthan than all while death violently or in the of nature has carried off within the year an number of 0 valuable catl citizens zens tens in ril all parts of the bounty temptation worse than cholera fever or death in any has pierced the reputation and triumphed in the downfall of trusted and honored men men with whom went dawn something ot of our faith filth in inhumanity humanity itself men wh who 0 are answerable beford before heaven for our despair of the tha race responsible tor for our oar faint taint hope in virtue and godl I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 panic and distress have seized our onn markets of money our oud credit la Is disputed deputed abroad and shaken at home the groat railroad estem system of the land recently its lt arido and the bond of its well weli beng la Is smitten with contusion confusion and shame thame ove ova shipyard ship bardsy yard yarl lately the glory of our oun industry and the scenes ct of intense activity y now close coir lir lin tir gates pates against the supplicating hands that found their bread within them themi J the ironworks iron tron works along olang the rivers no more redden ito IK night with the glare of their furnaces or confound thi thi day with the din of their anvils labor leans listlessly and anxiously upon its spade while capital locks its chest and trembles for tor it securities thousands of unemployed laborers hang around the th melancholy scenes of 0 their old occupation while hundreds ot of mercantile establishments drop their oars upon the tide afraid to adva advance rioe and not able ablo to pause the rich man perhaps thinks it is a hard bard fat fats fato that chath he does not this yian add his hla usual increase to his swollen fortu fortune or that ebule tome few thousands are swept from hig hla supera nors norb boardl the aspirant to a large success counts it a hardship that he be must bridle hrs hla ambition for a twelvemonth lr I 1 but wb what at would become of th the e coni meral healthy health what of the private morals ot of the nation it if no circumstance circumstances arose to lest test the strength ot or bold adventurers adventure ra whose capi capil tal tat la Is thein their rashness sa adi dai and aal choro whose occasional success la tit a strange surprise and lucky accident communities ot or individuals that gamble in dry good goods or groceries am ers no better betten or safer mafer safer than it they gambled d in stocks and coln ani and the hour will inevitably come corns when such baseless and will fall with a common I 1 I 1 I 1 crash the everlasting law of 61 godla god Is in the sweat of thy brow thou then eimo eiro thy bready brealy bread but un happi happl happily lyp an in Increasing disposition exists to substitute th cunning or onha ill thy brain for the sweat of the brow we are fast making labor over to our foreign population as it if it degraded our own awn hands the sharp witted and th 11 enterprising rush from the countr country yInto into our titles cities otle otie as 13 1 no end roanld amato amo to tha the want wani of exchangers geni and no need existed for an increased number of 0 producers it Is a small thing that a few lew tor for fortunee tort fort tunes tunce unes or many period pernod down flown in these crisce a very small emit matter that people bel ben he drop a carriage carri carrl gi or there retire into a less f fashionably at let tract it Is a far greater thine thing that poor fa milles families in th tte country and diligent laborers low lose their hard bard earnings the thle rel rei reliance larice of their coming aboin ge an the tae rutn ruin ot 0 reckless speculators culaton but bat even that might te be got at along ong mth with 41 t f rhe the great gevat and dreadful evil ot of a loose credit an tain biln cur currency a ting standard ot 08 value Is 3 the demor alting alling it gradually sends bends through land ithe the leanne leanness gs of soup soul it produces it teno tenn of thousands of young rnea with a rec klees ambition na un nal nai i I 1 settles them thein in wholesome pursuits dra ora draa a them into larre larga towns and cities and hurries them on a general tide or of excitement oto Uto dissipation and abd ruin tair it spreads abroad truda eruda and confusing notions of res rev p and happiness it raises the standard of com corn fort and decency tolan to an unnatural attral and injurious pitch pi ten it heats blood of mhd whole body point innocent and wholesome tastes are burnt cp up la tig tit it fuw fum tur fur a I 1 the ablia taste tas doana and it be fed with apkes and whipped with stimulants literature birks from front the costing ami awl ani itata of a scott a copper cooper or edgeworth from gentle biography or eleta eleya elevated ted into inke stories thap that tha lav lay apen the guilty gulit guilt passion got abla feekla pa ref her ber iett mur mun murder dery ierg ir fraud audland add and folly tolly stalk stall in n the th earls earla iva yva il robes the mero titles ot of the popular stories of th the e d fi sal sul denty the sated bated and sickly appetite ta to which they gaedy greedy and covetous make greedy and covett covets s ous oos tSi raeh rath rp me mike rash cag cap rash cap bil nil daks rash crew riders ilder s create reckless drita arte and azid t the locomotive rushe sonly at it the sped speed ot it ith ita 4 t pa rha tha engineers ot or the abole country counie partake the spirit ot of tha the country and it Is utter utterly lyt hopeless tj to demand prudence and eite cite care and judgment of those who do ote wIll iq SQ long iong as eur our ur will itself lacks ileks those qualities rhe the disastrous tires fires the horr lorr horrible itie itle shipwreck shipwrecks sy the dreadful murders at f the last year are the logical consequences ot of ther the national character it Is impossible to trace each kach and every one to its specific gaui cause b bint riat they arm are anly what what might bd ine ene expected exie txie cled f fram beird the f feyer fever everin in tho ll odthe the blood 6 iraln brain the venturesome venture goms gomb and the thebold the rash and head ong temper of the times it la is fit tha that thakur tur 0 ur brou prou proudest de 1 ships should stagger lika ilka drunkards in ai the dark dirk and fall tali into the pits the seay seal ea the characters of our most trusted men reel on our and ind topple masses af ruin to the pavements antl t Is fit that ire fare fire should sweep down our warehouses and aid ories cs when the inward flame Is consuming the consciences and judgments ol 01 their owners who vello will took out for the stony coast who stop to heay the warning lead who scrupulously keep the midnight atch in our streets and tores who ho stick diligent diligently ly ci con to his post be his charge fire or steam fog 0 or erautt who can be depended on in any of these positions s or for any of these duties while the public conscience ia if mp alred the tha general brain confuse confused dy the whole lody tody politic inflamed by the intense covetousness and social ambition of a people the sickness reaches from the head of the nation to tha sole role of its feet and these thesa cries of drowning agony on our coastin coa stiS these bereaved homes in our midst these innocent and horror stricken families whose names are polluted by fraud these shipwrecks tiresy fires failures crimes all are but parts of ono cna great whole whose animating goul soul gou sou Is cupidity 1 t I 1 I 1 1 it 9 la time to have done with the heathenish fa ri which tells us we can not control this hot haste and vre ire amm are not for this universal rivalry and excess of activity we mut must control it or degenerate into a natian of lunatics the strain upon the tha national nerves Is already n our madhouses mad houses with thousands of victims to the american spirit we wd must control it or surrender our claims to be a civilized people we must control it or see our national flag the suspicion and dread of the world and our national chata character acter the ridicule and apprehension 0 of f christich christen dom dond we must control it or behold our literature tur turning to a mixture of sentimentality s and our art a starved and puny product of the soil toll our religion aa an amalgam of the police office and the theatre and what we filst do we can do gods providence li helping us tia to do li iti 1 in the very experiences wa are now nov suffering and the lover of his big country and kind ought might to 6 render thanks today to day that a pause piuse Is given to our public sped a check felt on our dangerous prosperity a sober and ind chastened chasteney chast ened hue over our social life |
