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The Spirit kept special representatives in the South 

 at all times to look after the most important racing events 

 and the business interests of the paper. Local corre- 

 spondents responded to this generous policy and helped 

 the cause along by sending notices of events to come and 

 accounts of races, meetings, sales, and the movements and 

 plans of breeders. Thoroughbred cattle, sheep, hogs, 

 colt shows and other stock shows, county fairs and agri- 

 cultural societies in Tennessee and other Southern States, 

 all received their just share of space in this New York 

 paper. Horsemen discussed the theories and principles 

 of breeding, the value of certain crosses, native and im- 

 ported, and the possible disappearance of the game 4- 

 miler, and the best way to prevent it. 



In this way The Spirit became the medium of communi- 

 cation the connecting link between the breeding 

 interests of the entire Union. Tennessee was on the map 

 in those days of progressive New York journalism and 

 The Spirit wrote the names and character of Southern 

 breeders high in the ranks of public spirited Americans. 

 To turn the pages of this old paper is to live in another 

 world, far distant from this, and form intimate friendships 

 with the chief actors of a great drama, whose names, once 

 household words in many states, are now unknown where 

 their ashes lie buried. To call them back to earth and let 

 them go through their parts again is to challenge the 

 admiration of posterity for their services to the public, and 

 secure for them an honored place in the history of their 

 country. 



