Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-04

ten thousand-fOr see representatives OF
that great interest here to-night-that heI
million aud a quarter of people may be
increased TO five or even ten millions more;
and may not hope that the twenty-three
or four millions OF acres of land may soon
be populated by men Of all nations and
kindreds, laboring for the common end and
purpose that your ancestors and mine have
worked
Nashville, she is rising Phonlx-like from
her ashes under her present wise and pru.
dent administration.
Hon. h. j. Morris, Mayor, who was in
tended to have responded being absent, @
letter was read regretting his inability to
be present. His letter concluded as fol-
lows: As there are around me in the va
rious departments Of the city government,
wise and prudent gentlemen, who have la
bored faithfully to advance our prosperity,
| must admit for their sake that your chief
compliment Is not entirely unmerited; but
you must excuse me for appropriating to
myself anything more than the credit OF
earnest and honest intention.
| trust the results of actions prompted
by their intentions may appear after a
while. This is quite enough to say Of my
self, and more than enough. If l were to
answer in full for those who have labored
faithfully with me in the work of financial
restoration, | should consume much time
in their praise. But it will require yet a
little more time for the city government to
reduce TO ashes the Phoenix in IFS old form;
and l am glad to see evidences in the vigor
Of science, the arts and literature, the edu
cation of the young in well-regulated
school, lie increased desire for manufac-
turtles, and the zeal for enlarged commerce,
Of that enduring and continuous vitality
which shall send up the renewed Phoenix
of prosperity, formed of sound Judgment
and exhauStleSs energy in every useful call
ing.
Surgeon General U. S. A, his official re-
ports, surgical, medical and hospital, most
valuable contributions to science:
Responded TO by DR.. Weed, Surgeon U.
5. A, who expressed his pleasure at the
pleasant duty imposed upon him in address,
ing SO learned and distinguished society.
he gave brief biographical sketch of DR..
Barnes, the Surgeon General Of the L. S.
Army.
Band-GOd Save the Queen.
The next toast was "ReligiOn in Sci
ence."
Rev. DR.. Jones in response said the toast
was felicitous expression. Religion and
science should never be diSassociated.
They had ever lived together and there
was nothing Incompatible between them,
They ought, therefore, never TO be divorced,
and never would be even though all the
skilled lawyers in all the divorce courts OF
Chicago were called into requisitiOn for the
purpose. Science was the body, beautiful
and symmetrical, religion was the living
soul. What God had joined together, no
man may put asunder. The opinion had
been entertained by many that there was
All antagOniSm between them. Ii began
long ages ago. A great bugbesr
for many years, in the eyes of
religionists, was geology. He did
not so regard it. Why the Bible had al
ways led science, and one of the greatest
scientists of this Republic, Commodore
Maury, had shown that proofs Of science
existed in the Old Testament long before
ii was known TO science. In times gone
by, religious men were the conservators of
science, and in later times they had led it.
Newton, Bacon, Locke, Liebig, Hamilton,
Humphrey Davis and Maury were as emf
nent in religion as taey were in science.
They had all borne testimony to the fact,
that there was no antagoniSm between the
two. II argued well for the future, when a
society like this coupled them together. He
concluded with brilliant perOration amid
applause.
The next toast was-"EducatiOn, mental,
MORAL and physical essential TO individual
rights. and the bulwark of permanent and
orderly government"
Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Chancellor of the
University, was TO have responded, but was
absent. DR.. Whyte, being called upon to
respond said, the best proof that he was
TO some extent educated, would be silence.
But he would take occasion TO remark that
the one great want of Tennessee was a
good State system of education. With that
she might rank among the first in the gal
axy of States in education as she already did
in everything else. He referred 10 the enter
prise Of Nashville in contributing generously
from what the war had left her to educate
her citizens. He thought the people of
Nashville had good reason TO be proud of
heir city as setting an example to the rest
Of the State. OF all others, doctors should
be we'll educated. On them all had TO r.
" at times from the moment of birth TO
he close OF life. He believed they should
be the deYOuteSt, truest and best taught of
men.
The next toast was: San interrupted
the shield of the innocent, the
error of the guilty, and the palladium of
,ivil liberty"
Hon. Z. II. East. who was to have re-
,pOnded being absent, Judge Smiley was
allied upon. He replied in a brief but fe-
icitOus speech, in which he paid a high
to the medical profession, and
o the ministry.
The next toast was "The Press, the art
the intellectual lever of the
world"
Albert Roberts, Esq. on rising TO re-
pond was warmly applauded. He said:
Gentlemen OF the Medical Fraternity Of |
and NdSbUile and their melted |
JUestS: had no idea when came here,
hat l would be expected to speak 10 the |
lever" and being totally I'M |
prepared to grasp so swelling a theme, would |
eel infinitely obliged if the Master of Cere- |
Monies would order the band 10 play during |
he progress of the agony, and not wait until |
he speaker broke down. have no sort of |
alent for speach-making, and though have |
till less Of surgery, it would occasion ma |
ass anxiety 10 saw off the legs of every gen.
leman present, than attempt to make a set |
peech to you. l regret exceedingly that |
accinatlOn does not exempt a limid man !
rom the suspicion OF being an orator as
Iell as from liability to the other harrassing
OntagiOn. In either event the victim is to |
e pittied, and all the more to be piltied per
apps, If he should come out of either I'M
rathed and still a man of mark. 1t is very
fen my fate to be called upon to respond
} "the press" on festival occasions, and
Owever big with speech | may be, am
enerally in the condition of the small boy
'ho swallowed handful Of bird-shOt, aud
le family physician advised his mother TO
i've him dose of gun-powder and point
i'm at 4 baTn-dOOr. Nothing short Of gun
Owder would be equal to my emergency 10
ii of with speech successfully.
Seriously, though, esteem it great
OnOr to be admitted to so scholarly circle
schoOlmen; ! am duly sensible, TOO,
the honor of being invited to ad-
ress yOu, and | can assure you, that
le language and not the feeling is
anting 10 do full justice TO the
,mpiment. In recognition Of it, |
lould like 20 be able to say something APP
'oprately cheerful, on this Occasion-as for