The colored Tennessean., 1865-10-14

AS you enter the cemetery at Mont
gomery, and turn to the right, YOU
VIII perceive colonade Of maple
trees Leading off toward a quiet glen.
Beyond is a grassy knoll, and leaving
tms to the left you will approach q
pleasant level of green sward. Here
you may be tempted to pause before
plain slab of white marble of the
most humble description. It bears
single inscription, civilian L. Yam
cey." His last words were, "Put me |
out OF sight" and it is said that he |
was constantly muttering, toward his |
latter end, those lines Of Pope:
'Let me live unseen, unknown.
And unlamented let me die.
Nor mound, nor monument. nor
stone,
Tell where / lie ... Ga
HIS death was quiet and painless.
aiter a year of acute physical and
mental suffering. He was a strict
churchman; q man of quiet manners:
handsome declaimer, and fair (
scholar. He was never wealthy, and
II Is understood he left his family
without an independence.
Ihe time has come when the cir
cunstances of his last illness and l
death, with the occasion which sud E
uenly convulsed frame from perfect r
nealth INTO wreck and mere shadow, y
may be mentioned as historical fact
William L. Yancey came to his end Z
py violence. 1t was toward the close s.
o. the second session of the first
confederate Congress that he broke +;
rom the counsels and influence of
Mr Davis, and became, with Mr.. H
?; :; Foote, leader Of the opposition.
Mr. Ben. Hill, senator from Geor- Liz
ga, had likewise charged his front.
'no was remarkable for the earnest do
less' personal interest and persistency
Vlth which he sustained the measures
u an administration to which his
,leglance had been given but late in
ne DAY. Mr.. Yancey, it will be re- Ca
rendered, had returned from an un-
uccessfl mission to Europe, and was
epresentlng Alabama i'm the Confed-
rate Senate H .T
The question Of a navy was under
lscusslon in secret session. The
ebate ranged beyond the parliament Jou
Lry limits, and Messrs. Yancey and gm
Ill became animated over the alb rle'
iract doctrines Of State Rights and ber
'e divinity Of slavery. oh words OF
assed, and finally the lie was given ten
Mr. Hill. Mr. Yancey leaped for nag
ard, and as he aimed a blow, at his Ne'
lversary, was caught in the arms Of as
latter and violently thrown back uor
'er desk Mr.. Hill is a man of per-
muscular Developments gov
E ancey was never very heavy. Vers
ough 1.-the and active In the fall rlgh
spine was seriously injured, and befo
en- the bystanders rushed upon the Or
and dragged the one from the tenn:
Ter, the great fire. eater Law uncon- the
Gus upon the floor, with little try,
'Kle OF blood oQzing from his lips. spec
was carried to his hotel, a vote of OF p'
recy was passed, and the rencoun. the
hushed up. No one in Richmond lzati
ept that body of men knew of the Chrl
;umstance for six montbs aftar - lessl,
anwhile the victim did not recover defer
dropped from day to day. He Su
anne llstless, hopeless and vacant. ton.
was transferred to .his own home. +r;,,x
re his convulsions ceased a few 80
KS before his death, which was enun
quill and calm - great
: dled without one hope Of the the n
'ess OF the Southern Republic he Until
asplred to found and govern; for o.o :,
n ne had labored day and night are az
twenty years; to which he poast
sacrificed his people, the Union mock
le otates, and the chosen institu- chisen
.s,,nwo,,t U neu'n' ~, . ofoken-nearted men, j
y" 'N0feo' '1ie 'ih- order