Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-08
|. BUCKEYE In TENNESSEE.
What He Sees and What He
Hears.
From the seneca, O., Advertiser.
And How He Likes it,


From the Seneca, o., Advertiser.
MIR. ]. T. Martin, who led the excur
sionists to the South a few weeks ago
returned home last week. He is highly
delighted with his trip and the treatmen
I he received while there. he says ht
never knew the meaning of the tern
eeSouthern hospitality before, until he
experienced it on this occasion. The
| people are anxious TO have Northerners
settle among them, and hold out liberal
inducements to have them do SO. Land is
cheap, and can be purchased on easy
terms. Those desiring to invest would do
well to see Mr.. Martin, as he can direct
them to some valuable real estate, in Ten
nessee, which can be bought at reasonable
| figures, and will undoubtedly be paying
investment.
We are indebted to Mr.. Martin for a
hickory cane from the Hermitage, ;" for
which we return our grateful thanks.
ANYTHING that brings to mind that brave
old hero, is acceptable, and we only wish
we had score of men Ike him to use a
few such hickories over the heads of the
scamps who now prostitute the halls of
Congress to their villainous ends. We
shall have our hickory cane trimmed and
'efixed up" and use it in the fu-
ture, in our perambulations about
the city, in search of its items. OF course
we need cane, and especially hickory
from the Hermitage.
FROM THE EXCURsI0NIsTs.
CITY HOTEL, NASHVILLE, Tenn, March
| 2l.-J. M. Myers-Dear Sir: Last Satur-
day l visited the Hermitage " and
collected a number of relics, among which
l name hickory cane.
| Andrew Jackson, the son of the Gen
erals adopted son, lives in the mansion.
He received me very kindly and showed
me number of relics collected by the
General during his life l also had the
pleasure of seeing and sitting in Gen.
| Washington's Office chair, which Jackson
had presented to him during his term of
office as President. The Hermitage" is
somewhat dilapidated, but is very inter
esting place to visit. could not but think,
| as stood by his. tomb, that if the glorious
old hero could be above ground and see the
condition of national affairs, and especi-
ally the project now on foot in Congress,
of putting his beloved State under a mill
| tery government, that the hair of his
| head would stand on end, and 'tBy the
Eternal" would be spoken louder and with
more firmness than he ever spoke it be-
fore. Old squint-eyed Butler would
crawl into that bottle again and call for
Grant to put in the stopper
| arrived at Nashville Saturday evening,
and met Messrs. Miller and Hesche, Just
| on the return from Mobile and Pensacola.
Yesterday Mr.. CRIES. called with a carriage
and took US out riding around the city,
calling at a number of places, the most
prominent of which was the residence of
Mrs. A. V. Brown Mr.. Brown, as you
will remember was Postmaster General
under Buchanan. Mrs Brown is very
genial and agreeable lady and has a most
delightful residence and grounds. We
were received by her and her accomplished
and beautiful daughter, Miss Saunders,
with that true generosity and cordially so
peculiar with the people of the South.
To-day | visited the tomb of President
Polk. He is buried in the door-yard about
midway between his late residence and the
street. Everything around the residence
and the tomb is very plain and unpretend-
ing. / met Mrs. Polk in her yard and was
cordially invited to view her late hus-
bands premises. She is very SC ciable
lady, and she made numerous inquiries
about Ohio men who were in Congress
during Mr.. Folks administration, and
among the number was our otd friend,
Hon. Henry ST. John. She had not heard
of his death and was grieved to hear that
he was no more. She picked me bOquet
of flowers which / hope | may save until
l get home.
As President Polk had no children he
willed his residence to the State of Ten
nessee as a Governors residence after the
death of his wife. 1t is close to the
capitol building and is already looked upon
and visited by strangers as public pro-
perry.
1t is astonishing what means are now
being used by set of unprincipled dem
agogues and low politicians to contest the
offices in this State. Congress is appealed
to to again put the State under a military
government. Alb 2minable falsehoods are
being sent to Radical Congressman for the
purpose of getting this great wrong per-
petrated upon as civil and well disposed
people as we have in Ohio. For thetruth
of this assertion l appeal to every one of
the gentlemen who accompanied me that
have Travelled through the State of Ten
nessee. have spent the past two weeks
in the very locality in which these great
outrages and prosecutions of Union men
are said to be committed, and l can as
sure your readers that | have failed to
hear of single instance of oppression or
threats, for opinions sake, not to speak
of the horrible crime of murder. / have
conversed with men who were prominent
Union men during the whole difficulty,
and they own that all these reports of
numbering and prosecuting Union men
are base fabrcatiOns, gotten up to order,
for the express purpose of getting Rad
ical Congress to put bayonets in the State
to control the election so that certain
men may be elected to office.
heard prominent Colonel of the
Federal army say that if these falsifcatiens
were not stopped, and especially if Con
gross should again Cypress the peaceable
people of Tennessee with a military gov
| eminent, he would be as big Rebel as
ever trod the soil of the State. The peo-
pie here are extremely anxious that the
efforts of handful of bad men may not
prevail, as they well know that it would
work great injury to the prosperity of
their commonwealth. They are recover
ing rapidly from the effects of the war,
and il would be an objectionable sin TO
disturb their prosperity or to check the
immigration now flowing into their State.
expect that this will be my last letter
| to you, as | shall leave for home to-mor-
row or next day. Business may detain
me one or two days in Cincinnati, and if
nothing happens will then be at home
and will take great pleasure in giving the
details of my journey TO my friends in
| old Seneca.
l have had a very interesting and
| pleasant time in forming acquaintance
with these people, and find them univer-
sally kind, hospitable, and glad to have
Northern men come to settle among them.
The greatest difficulty | feel is in get
ting away from these people after once
forming their acquaintance.
Very truly yours, j. T. M.
1 OUR SENTIMENTS.