M'arthur Democrat

From the Nashville Union and American.

The Louisville Festival—The Ohio Welcome.

The members of the General Assembly returned from their excursion on Sunday afternoon. The profuse hospitality of the citizens of Louisville, Columbus, Cincinnati, and the intermediate points, is spoken of in the most glowing and grateful terms. Every Representative of the sovereignty of our state is wild with enthusiasm at the cordiality of the greeting extended to Tennessee. Language seems incapable of conveying an adequate idea of the warmth and magnificence of the reception given our Representatives. The lavish prodigality by our hosts, of the good things of life, beggars description, and seems to have been only equalled by the hearty good will with which all kindness was bestowed upon our friends. Such a festive offering to the Genius of our Republican institutions has hitherto never been tendered to the presiding divinity of our Union. It is to be hoped that much good may proceed from the unrestrained interchange of opinion which naturally occurred between the Representatives of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

If the authoritatively constituted Representatives of our State have correctly expressed the sentiments entertained by their constituents, the people of Ohio have learned that the descendants of the Cavaliers of Virginia and the Huguenots of Carolina, do not yield in devotion and loyalty to the Union of our fathers, to the offspring of the Puritans of New England, the Hollanders of New York, or the Quakers of Pennsylvania, and that while we worship, with feelings akin to idolatry, the Goddess of Liberty, vestured in the flag of our Union, and with her brow encircled by a diadem of stars, we feel ourselves, although but eight to eighteen millions, the proud peers of the noblest of the noble; we feel ourselves not unworthy to be ranked side by side, in the highest roll of fame, with the worthiest of the descendants of Miles Standish. Heaven bless the Union of our States, and the States of our Union.