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Which vas adopted. with but one

Which was adopted, with but one
dissenting vote.
A memorial from the West Tennes-
see Pathological Association, request
ing the State Press Association to dis
courage the growth Of cotton in Ten
nessee, vas presented by Mr. Meyers,
Of the Humboldt Herald. Received
and fled.
Mr. Cobb, Of the Nashville Bulletin,
offered a resolution, that the Press
Association attend the centennial cele-
bration to be held at Philadelphia,
next year, which was adopted, and
the Both OF June fixed as the time.
Gen. Jones, of the Union and
American, offered a resolution, which
was adopted, having in view the bust
ness interests Of the Association, and
providing for the appointment of a
committee Of three to take the subject
into consideration. Messrs Jones,
Boyers and Polk were appointed such
committee.
j. 8. Williams, agent Of the St.
Louis Type Foundry Advertising
Agency, made few remarks relative
to a proposition Of the firm to become
the sole and exclusive agents for for
eign advertising in the West and
South.
Capt. Childress, Of the Murfreesbo-
no News, on behalf of the Mayor and
Board Of Alderman of Murfreesboro,
rendered an invitation to attend a
banquet at the Willard Hotel at $50
o'clock p. M, which was accepted.
DIR White, of the Lebanon Herald,
offered a resolution that intoxicating
liquors shall not hereafter be drunk in
the halls where the business sessions
of the Association are held. The reso-
luton was adopted.
A resolution returning thanks to
Messrs Woodward & Moore for their
annual spiritual" donation was
adopted.
The Association then adjourned I'M
til 9 o'clock this morning.
At night, public exercises were
held at the Christian Church, in the
presence of large, intelligent and at
tentive audience.
Col. Barbiere, of the Memphis Ec-
lectic, delivered and able and eloquent
Grafton, which we regret we cannot
publish in full. The following is a
short summary of it {:
He had thought that to assure them
of his desire to please, it would be ne
cessary to present subject in which
oratoriCal display would enter largely;
but regard for the growing import
ance the interests of the family Of ma
tons, and an apprehension of the ne
cessity of preserving, in letter and
spirit, the teachings of the principles
be hoped to eliminate-the preserva-
ton of the proper balance of power in
the Church and State-had melted
him to sacrifice all hopes of attaining
marked appreciation for oratorical ex-
cellence in the desire to conserve the
general good, by suggesting such orig
inal thoughts and Preferential illustra-
tons as might best serve the purpose
of confirming the prestige Of the Tn
ion, that should be preserved intact,
to withstand the assaults of diplomacy
foreign to the real good of American
polity. These were serious times and
required the earnest attention of the
press as to the readiest means of adj
vancing the American nation in the
great international field.
Of the many problems involved in
the arrangement of the system of in
ternational economy, none had pre-
sented more seeming difficulties to
diplomacy than the preservation of a
proper balance Of power. The speak
err proceeded to show how, from the
earliest period of time, the adjustment
of political force had invoked the
brain of the willy, the astute and the
powerful in efforts to establish this
balance. He said that in order to
conserve the hopes of a free people,
what we first wanted was information
al peace. The new idea of interna-
tional law association should be sus-
tanned, that the weak might be pro-
! tected from the dominancy of the
strong; and to preserve the balance at
our own doors, we should see TO it
that no party should retain the pre-
ponderance Of power that might lead
to a too great depression ofthe minor
ity. We should all, ex-Federal and
ext Confederate, citizens of the North,
South, East and West, unite in all or
any efforts that might serve the object
to be attained by honest diplomacy.
Miss Collins then read her beautiful
poem, which will be found in another
column.
After the entertainment at the
church, the Association repaired to the
Willard Hotel, accompanied by the
Mayor and other city authorities and
HuIlDeT Vi tilS lGduulS ClllLcDS.
There they sat down to magnificent
banquet, which was greatly enjoyed
by all present.
The Association reassembled at 8
a. m, Friday, the Vice President,
Col. Thomas Boyers, of the Gallatin
Examiner, occupying the chair.
The Brownsville States and Valley
Herald, of Jasper, were admitted as
members of the Association.
The committee appointed to consid-.
er the proposition of the st, Louis
Type Foundry Agency, represented
by Mr. Williams, reported that they
were inclined to regard it favorably,
the high commercial standing of the
type foundry and its perfect ability to
fulfil its contracts giving the commit
tee an assurance of success.
The committee to whom was SUBJ
mitted various questions relative to
the business of the Association pre-
sented report which was taken up