Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-18

OH III Dbud1l Oi us 1BuHC51cc IIccS
Association, it is my pleasing duty to thank
you for this cordial welcome 10 the beauti-
ful town Of MurfreesbOro, and to thank
you for the very graceful and fattering
manner in which you extend that welcome.
We stand to-day on historic ground, for
here was fought one of the most stubborn
and sans Urinary battles Of our civil war,
the memory Of which touches a cho'd in
every American bosom; and, whether we
wore the blue or the gray, we can recall
aud recount with wonder and admiration
that fearful battle as proof of American
pT0wess-Of Northern and Southern valor.
Yes, every foot Of ground hereab0uts is
historic and has incident which will long
be told in poetry and sung in song. We
have heard Of your beautiful women and
brave men, your colleges, manufactures,
hospitality and enterprise. Situated as
you are in a region Of unsurpassed lowell
ness and countless natural advantages, it is
not the language Ofexaggeration to predict a
growth IN wealth, population and magnif-
cent prosperity that will place Murfreesboro
hard by her sisters of the southwest in the
great race for commercial, manufacturing
and educational supremacy. And, rest as
sured, ser that none will more heartily sus-
tain your manly effort and applaud the
richest success that may attend your cOur-
age and enterprise than will the members
of the Associated Press, to whom you
have, on this occasion, so generously ex-
tended the open hand OF unstinted well
come and hOme-like hospitality. II the
name of the Tennessee Press Association |
again thank you for this eloquent and fat
tering testimonial Of your regard.
Gen. Palmer was called upon and re-
sponded briefly. BE said he had come
there as a spectator and to be entertained,
and he certainly had been highly enter
tanned. He would be doing injustice to
attempt TO add anything to the welcome
that had been so eloquently extended by
the Mayor of MurfreesbOro; he would feel
that he would be destroying its force, and
he was sure that the press had been ably
and elegantly represented through the
President of the Association. The General
expressed his personal qualification at
meeting so many gentlemen Of the press, a
combination Of power surpassed by none,
a set Of gentlemen who had demonstrated
to the world their merits and capabilities;
gentlemen whom he had met under other
skies, and amid other scenes, who were as
true to the flag which they then followed
as they were to the great national ensign
of the glorious union which the press now
supported more than its armies or nayies.
He was personally proud to meet his late
friends in prison life, his late comrades in
arms on other fields. 1t seemed
to him that no better place
than MurfreesbOro could have been selected
for the meeting, owing to its geographical
position and its historic fame, made glOri-
Gus in the recent war. Her people had ex-
tended to them their hearts and hands.
Words Of formal welcome were wholly in
adequate to express to them the feeling en-
teTtained for them by the people of Muir
freesbOrO. He once again bid the members
of the Association welcome to the hospi-
talities, eOurtesies and all that MuTfrees-
bOrO had TO offer.
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, of the Columbia
Journal, was loudly called for. He said
that he had not come there to make
speeches, but TO hear other gentlemen and
then 90 back and tell what he had heard
as well as he could. SuppOsing, however,
that he would be called upon he had brought
along with him gentleman whom hey all
Knew-his friend Slater; he had brought
Slater for that express purpose.
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Winchester Home Journal, loud calls were
made for him, and he came forward and
made an amusing little speech, i'm his pecu-
liarly felicitOus style, keeping his hearers
in an almost continual roar. He COM
menced by saying that he was plain and
blunt man, and as it is was customary
for some speakers to say that the call
was unexpected, and afterwards pull Ous
their manuscript, lie would say that he had
prepared an eloquent speech, but, unfOrtu
na,ely for him and the Association, had
left il in Nashville. He felt somewhat
embarrassed, and had a very poor memory;
and, as memory made wisdom, a man
without it should never undertake to speak.
He would forgive Gen. Wright that time
for calling on him, but the General ought
to have known what it required to infuse
into him the spirit of elOquence. He ought
10 have waited until some banquet Occa-
sion, when he would have been better pre-
pared. After a few remarks pertinent to
the meeting Of the Association, he closed
amid loud applause.
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
At $50 p. NJ. the Association was called
to order BY President Neal.
The Columbia Journal, the BOliUdr Bud
let1R, he NGSbUiHe Bulletin, the Union
City Rereille, the Humboldt Herald and
the BeilCille Enterprise were admitted to
membership in the Association.
Co. BOyers reported a form Of contract
for the signature Of publishers regarding
the publication Of legal advertisements.
The regular order Of business was sus-
pended and President Neal delivered his
annual address, which will be found in full
upon our second page.
The thanks of the Association were re-
turned to the President for his able and
eloquent address.
Mr.. Thomas, Of the Springfield Record,
presented the compliments Of Messrs.
Woodward and Moore, of Robertson county
and so forth.
DR.. White, of the Lebanon Her
aid, Secretary OF the AssOcia-
ton, read a letter from Mr.. W. T.
Hatch, of Minnesota, anumerating at
length the natural advantages Of Tennessee,
giving glowing description Of what its
future may be, and expressing his purpose
to spend the remainder of his life in the
State.
Mr.. Thomas, of the Springfield Record,
offered the following:
qualification the efforts heretofore and now
being made by w. L. Hatch, Of Mime
apolis, Mimi, for the encouragement Of
immigration to our State; therefore be it
Resolved, that we, as the representatives
of the press of. Tennessee, acknowledge
his disintereSted efforts in that direction as
worthy Of more than passing notice, and
be it further
Resolved, that we tender him our sim
cere thanks and offer him all the facilities
within our power 20 further his laudable
undertaking; and that we extend to all
whom he may be instrumental in bringing
to our State, a cordial welcome and an as
surance that they can come among US with
out the least fear of mOlestatiOn either of
person or property.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this As
ISOLATION be instructed to transmit the
foregoing to Mr.. Hatch.
Which was adopted, with but one dis
senting vote.
a memorial from the West Tennessee
Pathological Association, requesting the
State Press Association to discourage the
growth of cotton in Tennessee, was pre-
sented by Mr.. Myers, of the Humboldt
Herald. Received and filed.
Mr.. Cobb, of the Nashville Bulletin, Of
fered a resolution, that the Press AssOcia-
lion attend the centennial celebration to be
held at Philadelphia, next year, which was