Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-17
LoUIsVGLLE HOSPITALITY

The hospitality the Tennessee editors
experienced at Louisville the other day
was quite Characteristic. They were
gwen the freedom of the city, being left
free TO come and go wherever inclination
or untaught curiosity might prompt them.
A gentle Journalist, from the office of the
Courier journal, We believe, showed two
or thee Of the party The courthouse and
the statue OF Henry Clay-the solitary
monument of art of which the city
boas;s-but further notice than this, none
was taken.
The chiva!rous city appointed no com
m;ttee to meet them with words of vel
come; its cOurcil failed TO become aware
Of their presence or their intention Of
coming; its merchants, in their individual
cspacity-they have no Board of Trade
down there desperate efforts TO establish
one having uniformly failcd-neglected 10
show the strangers any of those pleasant
little attentions that are apt to be bestow.
ed in other cities; the public library hay
ing never been started could not of course
throw open its doors; the unknown editor
of the Louisville Ledger was too busy
in congratul4iing himself on Issuing
another paper to lock after the welfare OF
the brethren from Tennessee; the Com
n1erciaI was mournin over the want OF
adaptation of sound political principles to
the native KeniuCkian instinct; ana all
the editors of The Louisville Courier
Journal but one were preparing reply
10 Alsck Stephens last shot. The Ten
nesssean delegation accordingly went to
their hotel, took their dinner with some
guests whom they invited, played two or
three games of billiards after dinner,
and loafed around generally in
the evening. They arose IN the
morning to ti1d in one of the daily papers
an account OF a reception which never
took place, and then came to Cincinnati
Sill they were treated quite as well as
other delegations have been among the
unacceptable Louisvllisns.
In the Louisville Ledger, of Saturday
morning, the attention OF the merchant!
is called to h. manner il which the dele
gates had been treated. The defense IL
set I'd that sour business men are mainly
on: of the city at present." There is 1
confession for you from a city that pre-
tends 10 be rival of COying
ton and Evansville. We do no
doubt it is true, for we hav'
observed registered at a hotel in New
York and ore il S. Louis the names Of
two or three gentlemen from Louisville,
Ii the Ledger had told the world grass
was gro gi0g il the streets, it would prob
ably have tod The truth. But these con
fcssiors are uDexpec ed. Moreover,
strikes reader as somewhat incOnsisten
that the Bourbon organ should n it frs
sentenc. Gail The attention of its cuisines
men generally to what it mildly call
can oversight while ia its last sentence
il says its business men arc out OF th
city. SIca inconsistencies are not I'M
common, however, when one undertake!
to set up false pleas. The real fact o.
the case is that Louisville IS as narrow
aud meanin her treatment Of visiting as
socistions % she is in reference to plan
OF improvement. Her mud road polio
for Kentucky which she inaugurated
b year a, j . hall ago, and the peanut POI
icy that mas moulded her legislation wit
referenc; 70 communication through th
city, are far indications of her littlenes: