Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-09

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the south under circumstances most
favorable not only for the prosecution of
our official business, but for obtaining \
full knowledge of the condition and plos.
poets OF this great and noble portion Of
our common country--its natural re-
sources its arts and industries. is cities
and means of intercommunicatIon. and
the opinions, sentiments and spirit Of its
people. In the journey of nearly one
thousand milcs to cur place of meeting,
and subsequently to jacksonville. Fla.
our every want was thoughtfully antici-
pated and most generously provided for,
ana social intercourse with our families,
who accompanied us, rendered as free
and pleasant as In our own homes. LeaV-
ing Louisville at 9 A. NJ, March 81, on
the regular passenger train, via Nashville.
Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, and Jessup,
we enjoyed the most favorable oppOr-
tunities for witnessing the ordinary ope-
rstions of the roads connecting these
points, to form q continuous through line.
Palace cars of the latest and most i'm
proved design, and the most complete
and elegant appointments, were placed at
the disposal of our party, which numbered
more than fifty. In these we made the
entire trips without change. We were
accompanied by the gentlemen whose
names are given in the following resolu-
ton, who were instant in season and out
of season in every good work in
our behalf. AT Nashville, Chatta.
nooga and Atlanta, we were en-
abled to visit the principal points of
interest; along the entire route-rich at
every step in historic association; skirting
the grand Lookout Mountain, following
the charming route of the Chickamauga,
passing by the picturesque Kennesaw,
and other points no less attractive and
noted-we were favored with every ex-
PLANTATION needed to awaken the memories
of a heroism of whose record on either
side no American citizen, South or North,
need to be ashamed. The entire journey
was made without an accident, a delay,
or an interruption. The roads were found
to be operated with perfec. regularity and
commendable dispatch; and we desire 10
to note, in most emphatic terms, their ex-
cellent condition, whether as respects
permanent way, equipments or other
working management. They are adequate,
in these days of speedy through transit,
to the already vast and rapidly growing
business of the through line which they
compose. We desire also to commend
their facilities for transfer from road to
road and from depot to other points al
Louisville and Nashville; also the admit
20 nd Nf he Hnt IL
making the staylof the tourists at every
point of interest pleasure. In recogni-
ton of hospitality not more welcome as
respects attention to our personal per-
sonal pleasure, than gratifying as exhib-
tied on an occasion indicating q
highly prosperous condition of The
cities and States of the South, be it
Resolved, That our full, hearty and
most grateful thanks are hereby rendered
TO the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
represented by w. H. King, its General
Passenger and Ticket Agent; to the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad, repre-
scented by w. L. Danley, its General
Ticket Agent; to The Western and Allan
tic Railroad, represented by B. w.
Wrenn, its General Ticket Agent; to the
Pullman Southern Palace Car Company,
represented by E. H. Paine, General
Manager; to the Louisville Transfer Com
pany. Capt. w. P. Harris, Superintend-
emf; to the q. l. Kimball House, Atlanta,
Ga, Messrs. Crittenden & Co., proprie-
tors; to the Macon and Western Railroad,
represented by A. E. Flewellen, its Gen.
eral Ticket Agent; to the Macon aud
Brunswick Railroad, represented by W.
E. Davis, its General Ticket Agent; and
to the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, repre-
sented by j. B. Bond, its General Ticket
Agent, and C. D. Owens, its General
Agent"
The cordial reception which the repre-
sentatives of the Western roads received
everywhere. from the time they crossed
the Ohio until they turned their faces
homeward, impressed them most favor
ably with the hos )itality of our Southern
people. They came among US with many
misgivings IS TO how they would be re-
ceived, but they have gone back to their
homes with very different views from
those they entertained before. They
were received with an open, cordial hos
pitality which disarmed prejudice If it
were there, and now they have ''confirma-
ton strong as proofs of holy writ" that
the Southern people are as far from be-
ing the lawless desperadoes they are rep
resented TO be by carpet baggers and
scalawags, as are the people of the North
themselves. They have met Southern
people around the social board; they have
mingled with them in the busy marts of
trade; they have encountered them in the
streets of cities and or the public high
ways, and although their excursion
through the South from the Ohio to the
Atlantic sesboard was rather hurried, yet
they had ample opportunities to study
and form correct estimate of the South
ern character, and we have no mis-
givings as to the judgment they
will pronounce in this regard. Every
excursion like this goes long way 10
dissipate the prejudices which are enter
tanned at the North against the Southern
people. These excursionists commingled
freely not only with every class of our
citizens, but with Northern gentlemen
who have settled in every portion of the
South visited by them, and from the lat
ter they learned that life and property are
as secure in the Southern as the Northern
States, and that the avenues of trade and
industry are as fully and freely open to
men of Northern as of Southern birth.
One of the party remarked that few
more excursions like this to other por-
lions of the South would effcctually dis
prove the Ku-Klux stories which are so
industriously circulated in the North to
the prejudice of our people. No rude
remark has been made to any member OF
the party; no look given, no gesture made
to which exception can be taken, and il
is morally certain that every member OF
the parry will give good report of the
people they have just visited.
SEwANEE.
GOOD LIFE.
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