Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-20
NASHVILLE UNION AND AMERICAN THURsDA Y FEBRUARY
VISIT TO MRS. POLK.
The General Assembly Pay their
Respects TO 8 Distinguished Lady.

The General Assembly Pay their
Respects to 3 Distinguished Lady.
Pursuant to a joint resolution previously
adopted, the members of the Senate and
House of Representatives proceeded in a
body TO the residence of Mrs. Jemes K.
Polk, at four O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
for the purpose of paying their respects to
that lady, and also to visit the tomb OF her
distinguished husband, the late ex Presi-
dent Polk.
Upon reaching Mrs Folks residence,
Speaker Lacey introduced the members of
the Senate to Mrs. Polk, who stood at the
door to receive her visitors, assisted by Mrs.
Gov. John G. Brown and Mrs. g. w. Fall.
After the Senators had passed into the
reception room, Speaker Lacey was re-
lieved by Speaker McGaughey, who intro
duced the members of the House..
Introducsiops being over, the guests cir
culsted about the room engaging in pleas
ant conversation with their hostess and
numerous friends invited to be present,
among whom were Mrs. DR.. Paul F. Eve,
Miss Julia G. Putnam, Mrs. Mary P. Ma
guire, Mrs. E. B. McClanahan, Mrs. John
o. Ewing, Mrs. Col. John W. Burton,
Mrs. Col. E. W. Cole, Mrs. DR.. Y. s.
Lindsey, Mrs. DR.. W. A. Cheathan, Judge
Sneed, Judge Deaderick, Judge Freeman,
| Judge Turney, Governor Brown, Mayor
| Kercheval, and others.
A half hour having been pleasantly
passed, the folding doors were thrown back,
/ and the visitors were invited into an adj
| joining apartment, where magnificent re-
past had been spread.
Full justice having been rendered this
| exhibition of Mrs. Folks hospitality, and
| order restored, Speaker Lacy addressed that
distinguished lady as follows:
ADDRESS OF SPEAKER LACEY.
Madam; Allow me to express the thanks
of the Senate for the kind hospitality with
which you have welcomed US and for the
opportunity Of visiting the tomb consecra-
ted to the memory of your illustrious hus-
band, and of expressing to you personally
our appreciation of your virtues, and of
the bright example which you have set be-
fore the people of Tennessee. As the rep
resentatiYes of the people of Safe whose
fame is intimately blended with that of
James K. Polk, we fulfil most pleasant
duty when we assemble TO assure you of
our high esteem for You, and to express the
hope that you may long live to see our
great State epioyI the consideration and
prosperity to which she is entitled as well
by the patriotism and valor of her sons, as
by the virtues and christian graces of her
daughters.
The applause which greeted the remarks
of Speaker Lacey having subsidized, Repre-
sentative j. II. Jamison advanced, and in
behalf Of the members Of the House, spoke
as follows:
ADDRESS OF MIR. JAMESON.
| Madam: In behalf of the members of the
House, allow me to express our most earn
est thanks for this expression of your cour-
tesy and hospitality. and our high appre-
citation of your many admirable qualities
and Christian virtues.
| OF the noble example you have ever sat for
the wives and daughters Of Tennessee and
of the Nation, both in your public aud pri-
vate life, Tennessee has been and will always
bejustly proud.
Some of the daughters Of cur nation
have figured in the fields of science, and
others have bsthed their vestal robes In the
flowery fields of literature, but in the light
Of your example, in our opinion, a generous
christian woman is the noblest handi-work
of God.
OF your lamented husband-onr honored
statesman, allow us to say, Tennessee has
ever regarded him as one of her most gifted
sons. In his wisdom and forethought as a
statesman she always repOsed confidence,
whether exercised in the affairs of his ma
tive State, which he loved 80 well, or as the
Chief Executive of the Nation, and some
of the ideas advanced by him will ever be
an honor to the United States Government.
These have been fostered, cherished and
appreciated by those following him, and We
hope viii be as long as we have govern
ment,
Amid the changes of time, and the con-
flict of ideas, both in our own Safe and in
the Federal Government, his name has
ever been remembered with love and ven
Grafton by the people Of the entire Union
and it is our earnest hope that such may be
the case until time shall be no more.
AT the close of Mr.. Jamison's address
Governor Brown responded on behalf Of
Mrs. Polk, briefly thanking the members OF
the General Assembly for the honor of the
visit, and for their expressions of kind re
gard for the memory of that distinguished
man-her lamented husband, after whicl
the visitors repaired to the tomb OF the ex-
President, and then left the hospitable man
sion where they had been SO pleasantly en-
ertained, hoping that their distinguished
hostess might be spared for many year,
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