The Grenada Sentinel

Excursions on railroads in the beginning were intended for a good purpose, that is, to increase the revenues of railroad corporations and widen the sphere of enjoyment for people who were scant of means for such pleasures. But like many other popular purposes, they have drifted away from their good intent, and are now managed, in some cases, by heartless speculators and patronized by bullies, roughs, and riffraff in the main.

On the Morgan Road, in Louisiana, last week as the excursion train of negroes was returning to New Iberia, one of the party stood on the steps kicking furiously at the section hands as they stood in position for work, as soon as the car, going at the rate of 20 miles an hour, should have passed, and he finally succeeded in planting his thirteen inch foot just below the ear of another negro standing on the platform, which broke his neck as effectually as though struck by the swinging pendulum of an old Roman battering ram.

We might mention the late excursion to Canton by white people, as another instance of the immoral tendency of excursions. If these railroad jaunts cannot be conducted with decency and humanity, the great corporation had better hang out a flag with, 'no more excursions on this road.'