The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-20
WILSON'S MANDERINGS.

HIS HEART SMELLS WITH GRATITUDE AND
ALL THAT SORT OF THING.
Redfield, the Cincinnati Commercial cor
respondent, writing up the South for that
paper says: The vice president has been
having a good time in Tennessee. He has
been honored in manner that seems to i'm
press him with deep sense of obligation
Since Andy Johnson came home from the
presidency, no one man has received the
attention in Nashville bestowed upon
Mr.. Wilson. He was met at the
depot by the Governor of the
state and staff, and many officials and citi-
zens, and was the guest of the governor
during his visit. Everything that the
wealthy and hospitable citizens of Nashville
could think OF was done 70 make his visit
pleasant and agreeable. The confederate
element of the ex-rebel soldiers were lavish
in their attentions, fairly getting ahead of
the republicans, and giving the vice
he had any idea of receiving in
this latitude. In his little speeches and
private conversation he referred to these un-
expected attentions, and, like our old friend
A. j., spoke OF heart swelling with graft
tude, and all that sort OF thing. The enter
tainment given him by Colonel K. w. Cole
has rarely been surpassed by anything of
the kind in Nashville. Colonel Cole, like
the vice president, and like nine tenths of
the leading citizens of the land, hes worked
his way
UP FROM VERY HUMBLE POSITION
to one of wealth and eminence. He is per-
haps the leading railroad man of the South,
controlling, in one capacity or anothsr, all
that long line of road from Hickman, Ken
lucky, TO Augusta, Georgia. At the enter
tsinment he gave Mr.. Wilson were the lead
ing citizens of Nashville, the governor and
the state officials, the ex-iudges of the Su-
prsme Court, and seven out Of the eight
bishops of the Methodist Church South,
who happened TO be 10 Nashville.
His reception in Memphis has been
no less cordial and hearty. The ex-
Confederates there took hold of him
as much as they did IN Nashville. Even
Ex-Governor Harris responded to the toast:
1" The Union" at the reception, and spoke
sentiments which must have strack the
vice president as significant to say the
least. IL this Is the year of reconciliation
and good feeling, aud il seems, the visit
OF Vice President Wilson 10 the South has
given the eX-Confederates an opportunity
to testify to their kindly feelings, and they
have done SO. In none OF the years since
the war has there been such a breaking
up of prejudice and annihilstion of hate
as has characterized the first half OF the
year 1878. It is suspicious of the CEN
tennial season, when We hope to see recon-
structon in fact as we'll as in name. Before
disra:ssing the vice president to the wilds of
Arkansas and Texas (if he goes there), we
may be allowed to say that, in his little of
hand speeches, the receptions, serenades,
and the like, he has not distinguished him.
self. What he says is commonplace and
pointless, superior, indeed, to anything that
Grant could do, but hardly up to what we
would expect from Henry " ilson. In the
run of speeches of this sort, how inferior are
they all to those delivered by Horace Gree
ley during his tour, or series OF tours, In
1872. They have never been equalled in
America