Description
Negro Celebration. - - There was a grand assembling of unbleached Americans at Weston, yesterday, to celebrate the anniversary of the emancipation of the West India Nigs.
We presume the grand giascutus of the Border Times was Marshal of the day, and we will be surprised if we do not read full proceedings of the affair in that sweet-scented sheet.
(Researcher's note: In 1867 the Editor of the Platte County Reveille was Thomas W. Park. Park was born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1842 and came to Platte County with his mother Mary (Park) Gaylord. Thomas W. Park served as a Private and Lieutenant in Confederate General Sterling Price’s Division of the Southern Army. After returning from the Civil War, he started publishing the Reveille in Platte City, Missouri. The Reveille ran until June 2, 1871, when it was consolidated with the Platte County Landmark.)Date(s) of Creation
8/2/1867
