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m unnrar.Te publiMted yesterday Mate the replyof the CitixW Committee*# the S*ngerfeet to'the memorial requesting an abrogation ofIbf B«nd*y programme first announced. The do mmeat ij a* courteous in ita t»rai a* that tiUch ft anew ere. In substituting Thursday foj Sunday u the time lor the procession, It eofjeedee the moot important modification re* nested. This evidence of good will m the po t of our German citizens will he highly appreciated by the memorial Late end all who syl spathlxe with them.17e think, too, that the coffers of the Sanger-tat.trill be benefited by the change. Many peons will be attracted from the country to wiffiess the im peeing demonstration. A large peri of theee will desire to risit the Sanger-ball6. This wonld not be the case on Sunday, wh#$i railroad trains do not ran, saying nothing of t e scruples of the rural population.At lor the picnic, while a large and respectable part of the community will regret that the committee feel compelled to adhere to the original plan, they can not charge the excursion '*ts with disturbing tbs peace of thoee who eish to observe a quiet Sac day at home.It is propoeed—the matter Is not settled, we believe—to cloee with a grand sacred concert on Sunday evening. Looking at the project from a purely secular point of view, we should think the concert would prove a greater financial and artistic success if held on Saturday evening. Sunday concerts, even when strictly confined to sacred music, have never found •general favor La Cincinnati, and some of those who ecteriain no scruples, would not care to desert their churches for the sake of going. On Sunday, for reasons already given, no large number of attendants from the country could be expected. Saturday evening is the one on whith fewer people me engaged than on any other in the week, and an orerfiowing audience^ representing every creed and class, could more cdrtainlv be expected.It Beans, also, hardly probable that the mass of the siegers, after two rides by railroad and a long .day in the fields and woods, would be in first rate condition for rendering the most elaborate compositions of the great masters. Play may $e more pleasant than work, but it ia not lees fatiguing.Wemake these suggestions with no :dea of dictating to the managers, but with the earnest desirsc that all possible success shall attend the enter]-rise. It is much easier to offer ad rice than to exlt; cute it, and the committees have perplexing and.delicate duties before them. It should be thf endeavor of every good citizen to lighten their burdens wherever possible, and to render the coming session of the Saengerfest more brilliant than any of its predecessors. Thousands of guests from all parts of our country will see Cincinnati, in many instances, for the first time, and we trust the lesson car* ried qway will be that perfect harmony subsists in ouf city; that American nationality submerges all the distinctions of language, race and dime; that while tender memories of the distant Fatherland may still ding around the heart* a prosperous precent and a hopeful future exert a still more powerfal sway, at the comufon property of both the German and the native born.t — — - — ■ * ^ * ii ■SU MISS’! BILL 01 XAIISS1.
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, May 20, 1870
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