Weekly commercial herald., 1885-11-13
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Stables and the fencing in the cotton
field. To-day, those who knew the
spot as it was then, will hardly recog-
nize it. The finishing touches are be-
ing put on the Grand Stand, the Race
Track is completed, the racers are in
the stables and this week there is
to be the Inaugural Meeting. |
The grounds will compare, in beauty
of location, and the track in the excel
lence of the soil of which it is made,
with any in the country.
This investment is Vicks-
burg's pride, and with the
proper appreciation and patronage
of her citizens, it will prove her profit
The very success of the enterprise; the
indifference with which those were
treated, who did not aid, although well
able to do so, and the taking of the
step without their assistance, is
as gratifying as it will prove valuable.
The stockholders and the workers
took. everything goodnaturedly; they
could not be rebuffed or discouraged.
If citizens we'll able to help and who
would be directly benefited, offered
their "good will" instead of liberal
subscription, it was taken and salted
down; if they almost insulted those
working up the enterprise, every ex-
cuse was made for them, and the man
tie of charity was thrown over their
hoggishness.
Vicksburg has the Fair Grounds
and the Race Track, and we are
convinced they will be source of re-
creation, amusement, and profit. The
grounds are well adapted to all kinds
of scenic displays and outdoor amuse-
ments. They are suited to picnics
to races, to drills, to tournaments, to
shoots, to ball playing and in fact tc
anything to be given outdoors.
Before this our citizens could enjoy
no sports of this kind, without
great expense and loss of time in go
ing to other places. Instead of money
being attracted to Vcksburg it was
drawn in large sums from the pockets
of our own citizens. Our poorest cit
liens, our laborers, and all others Car
now have outdoor recreation ant
amusement, with triling expense,
Let the people turn out every day an(
make the meeting glorious success
We have never doubted Vicksburg',
citizens and we know they will do it
THEY BUILDED WISER THAN
THEY KNEW.
When the South was down in tht
ashes and sack cloth of defeat; WheI
her vanquisEed sons, with furled ban
ners, left the battlefield and turned Il
their desolated and ruined homes
wrecked in all save honor, so deter
mined were her foes to still furthe
humiliate her, that, not satifed will
liberating the slaves, they set them W
as the political equals and made then
the rulers of her sons. The Soutl
humbly protested but submitted.
Time wore on-and, slime makes al
things even"-Old affections 'twix
former master and slave were revive
and strengthened by community of in
terest. The South was the birth place o
both, and its fertile soil, its salubriou
climate, its fruits and flowers were
common heritage. The hollow tree
where young "Marse Jeff" and tn
"boys" from the "quarters" ha
"treed der possum," and "blsc
mammy's Breast" were old assc
Citations and memories that al
the amendments 10 the Constitution
all the reconstruction measures an
new tangled methods Of creating cit
zenship could not extipguish.
The white man acquiesced in. an
the colored man reveled in an abnol
NAL state of things for awhile. Whel
soreness and passion had healed wit
the one, and the novelty had worn il
self out with the other wise and sobe
counsels prevailed between the tw
races, and by their united efforts tn
common enemy was driven from tn
land and peace and harmony prevailed
Now, that this happy state of thing
exists in the south-now that the,
who builded temple for their owl
glory are turned out of the temple
the builders, John Sherman and men o
that ilk, cry out, "tear it down."
To this cry but one answer goes Vi
from the Damncrats of the Snnth -MIn