| New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good
resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday,
everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last
oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now,
we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our
ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect
pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time.
However, go in, community. New Year's is a harmless annual institution,
of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks,
and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it
with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. - Letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Jan. 1863 |
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