The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-07-14
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Horses and HOrSeman.

Horses and Hor>emen.
| EDS. PALLADIUM:-In the las. number Of your
paper you were kind enough to notice . short ar.
tice of mine 10 relation TO the Horses and Horse.
| men Of Richmond. Your notice wind. up With
q most singular comment upon one ofmy remarks,
| which is alike reua kah'e for being far-fetched
and erroneous Rpeke ofthose mo 90 into moral
| spasms at the exhibition Of "Trottrs at our
/ FAIRS. Mr.. b. ". Davis SAYS: 1t Is hecom
Iny so Gerry common nov = Caysto convert sach
an exhibition OF tr0tters into horse rdcn and It's
attendant evils OF Gambling and DrankeaRess-
! quote MS own language. II il so "rsrg com
mon, will Mr.. Davis point out iastauce?-
Does ne mean 70 say that the Offices and mem
beis OF the Wavnc County \ gricn'tQra Society
have turned our .isrical'urdi Fair 'nfo race
track for the speclat accommodation of BiacE
legs and GamJ!ers' quote his own language.
Do they adopt this lRots II WhiDpiag the DsrH
around The stump Il. Davis chargesz lftLey
do they Uetrer than the back'e2s ard
gamblers Mr.. Davis speaks OF. II they don't then
Mr.. Davis is mistaken. Ii he does not mean
the W yme County Fair " hat + air does he mean?
II there il any truth ii his charges somebody Is do
ing wrong.
/ Bat why does Mr. Davis take occasion to read
| me a moral lecture on HDrsc-racing? | am no
! ,acing man. | never owned or drove horse ID
any match or for any wager. have aiwats been
an ardent ajm!rer OF fine horses and fast horses,
and have the satisfaction Cfknowinr hat aaI 10
good COMPANY" haze always advocated pay
ing premums TO truttibg horses at our Fairs and
have seen IN tea yeats, the value Of onr horses
regularly and steadily incrt asing and knotc that,
Other thiEgs being equal, sptsd dfone - the
/ oeasuye of rafue kROic that v heu Mr. Kinds
lev sold hi- fee chestnut geidng to Mi BrIdg-
land for 5000 II vas u matter OF much com
ment and Io,oreis as it is now to sesl the mot,
Ting bnrse j Ohm Letcher." for S2.000-nnd all
this since our fist County Fair am proud t"
know that X chmond Las repata ion 70 day not
hut thTF. l. IT.
XIV and Virginia for her fine horses her fast hors
& and gentiemaniy horse-men, and do not con
slider that even the ex'r me moral portion OF the
pubic whose champion Mr.. Davis assumes 10 be,
will class these meu or myself "a belonging 10
the "horse,acing, gambling and drunken" class,
or that we are BfackiegS and Gam5!ets, Tor
whose "cpecat accommodation these tracks at
our Fairs are fitted up.
4 | was sorry to see slch a gratuitaus assault
rpon our horse men and the managers o. mr.
FAIRS and its Justice must be my excuse for
place il Your columns
/ If the admiration Of trottiug horses il an evil
it is a national oue, for upwards OF eleven hI-
dred named horses and more than Il HUNDRED IN
named have their performances registered IN the
TrottGg Record.
The Emperor of France ordered a pair Of
Morgan trotters from Vermont for which he
! paid FIVE Thousand Dollars No ration on
earth equals own for the production OF
trotting horscs-their reputation Is world vide;
and their raising and truinIng is 10 less a source
of national pride than rational wealth. II has
been, / an aware. Fashionable for some th.n-sklE-
ed paritaus to decry this aye of trotterS, tele
graphs and sefrakers, but they only answer the
purpose of mile stones for the "baiance OF mar
kind to me assure heir advancement A man who
is always straiulhe his eye sight discover moral
evils generally gets blind to everything else,
Iou.s &c
VT. DENNIS.
/ A. Oh 10
we confounded the Loder races and the Rush
| Co. Fair together. making the latter respon-
sible for the former. Our misapprehcnsion
was further aided by the knowledge that
trotting match would come off in Rush, which,
coupled with M Dennis's remark at the hor
ror exhibited by certain persons "at the ex-
hb,tiou Of trotters at oar FauS,' &c, made
, in his communication 10 the Ire immediatr ly
after the Loder troting occurred, assisted
us to squint in the same direction. Ills the
easiest thing in the world to lie mistaken.
We are no exception to this general rule,
and we take pleasure in making the correc-
ton by giving place to the above communi-
cation from Mr.. Dennis.
! We do not assume to be the champion Of
any Of those Mr.. Dennis is pleased to style
"the extreme moral portion Of the communi-
ty;'' but it is very evident, from the wide
range he takes and the prominence in which
! be places himself as the recipient of a moral
lecture from us, he desires 1t 10 be distinctly
und erstood that he is the "champion of
/ AZ ricultural Fairs generally, The Wayne Co.
Fair especially. tie 'gentlemsnly horsemen,'
pure and fast horses, Morgan trotters, &c,
in Richmond and The regions round about;
including France and other portions OF the
globe from whence orders have been recev
ed tor superior stock! We feel no disposition
TO gainsay his claim. His communication
to the Dire. ex lifted his championship in
this line on the extreme as We thought;
hence our brief comment regarding the taste
displayed in his allusion TO those who look
upon such peculiar exhibitions OF trotterS"
as took place on the Loder Race Course, in
different light from himself, and whose SIN
cerity lie questioned by alleging they
..tcoald toke tsto chances If thy kae,r tie
MONEY there IS ~ hem" We ''quote
his language" When he wrote that com
munica,ion. the result of the Loter perform
ances was fresh in his min /, and that result
was sire to the allegation quoted. He felt
exultant at the success OF Mr.. Briigland'
horse in winning the $1,000 purse, and at the
sums of money won by some of the horse
men" from this city the scrub races, and
he no doubt really tancied, as lie was 'ro
racing man-neyer owned or drove a horse
in any match or for any wager, that other
similar ''narsellously proper persons" be-
side himself. differing IRON him only III the I
fashion of rolling Cup the whites Of their
eyes in holy HORROR would not only be
tempted 10 60 two eyes on the exciting sport.
but take two chances" in the speed Of