Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-04-24
The Difference,

A@Oe any llull Jake up Tue MeHlpllS
papers and read the elaborate and COR
dialreception which the people Of that
city, only this week, paid to General
Grant, and see how it corresponds with
theimpudent and malignant filth which
We find in the columns Of the Cincin-
matt Gazette. They are from the pen
of the Bloomington correspondent
Tobacco Leaf.
Citizens Of Bloomington are highly
indignant here over the action of the
University students in selecting jeff.
Davis to address the literary societies
in June. We are informed, however,
that the faculty will not allow the invi-
tation to be extended, and thus such a
disgrace will be avoided. Too many
soldiers left Monroe county and died
under the tyrannical hand Of this arch
traitor to submit to his appearance in
our State Institution
The above appears in the Cincinnati
Gazette. We are very far from holding
that any newspaper is responsible fol
all it contains, or all that may be con
tributed to its columns by correspon
dents. In fact it is the duty as vel
as the prerogative of the press to repre-
sent the true state of public opinion
when it can do so. Ifany considerable
portion of our Indiana friends enter
tain such feelings and sentiments as are
expressed above, we should know it
and our only medium for knowing it
is the press. And when the Northern
press can afford to publish such expires
sions of animosity toward the South
the above, without word of common
or rebuke, we take it for granted tina
in such expressions we have the tru
reflex of the press and the people 9
the North.
We do not know what motive
prompted the students ofthe universit
to the course they adopted, nor do W
know what view Mr.. Davis would hav
taken of the matter if the invitation ha
reached him. But we are inclined
think that he would have decline
it in the most respectful term;
Just as he did a similar invitation el
tended to him few years ago in one
the Western States, to address tn
people at one of their agricultural fair
Our object in this notice is to contra'
the above action of the citizens
Bloomington, Indiana, and the facult
of the university, with the action OF til
citizens of Nashville and other Soutl
ern cities in 1877 in extending receI
tions to Rutherford B. Hayes, the &C
ing but fraudulent President of the |
s., on his Southern tour, undertake
and conducted in his own interest an
to make himself acceptable to the pc
ple whom he had been the instrumel
of wronging.
Mr.. Hayes was received and treate
with the courtesy becoming the hig
position which he occupied, althoug
it was well known that he occupied
by the greatest fraud ever perpetrate
in the republic.
Again we ask all who are dispose
to justice in the premises, to contra
this bit of sectional feeling and peuri
animosity with the invitations and I
ceptions very recently extended to Ge
Grant by all the leading cities of tt
South, and the tone and temper wi
which he was received at Galvesto
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mobile Mer
phis and Little Rock, This contra
will show very great difference in t
two sections which is altogether fave
able to the magnanimity of the Sout
ern people, and shows the weakne
and pusilanimity, not Of the emit
North, but of all who endorse the
ton of the faculty above named, a
all who have shown this spirit in 9th
similar oases, for this is only one
many such instances that have
CURED of late.
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