New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-27

passage Ordnance Secession indicates dssr-see opu
seas xxi. s ss % Il 0 TS c sS ss e@pu a. u:
remedy and s application before resort - other eln' o. rereaa na
Hheren desirable thet nteut0n whcn
rsA exists among Che members Of This ConVee@, 70 s'sa We
esore That all members Of th Convention including those who
voted against the said ordinance we'll who voted Tor H. viii
Ea we same as poGf 81 The nsannon determination Of @ SS'sg.
Of dsappmval u It's adoption
The President OF ~ O'Clock m, announced to the Con-
Netlon at the hohr had arrived for signing the OIu-
nance OF secession and. having first placed his signature
thereto The SECRETARY was directed 10 call the connes
when the delegates proceeded tO ax their signatures 70
the
Such ia the record Of the Secession Convention Bat the
record does not tell the truth The delegates did not all
aiix their signatures. for six co. OF them entered pro
test and yet two 2D others would neither ordinance
protest. These two men william c. Fain Of
tan County aud Presley Yates Of Catoosa County and
they stood firm despite al the appliances so successful
with others. when all other means had failed large
depuatun Of ladies waited Fam to present him with
handsome sOd pen. WIN thht pen he was the ladies
tud him, 10 sign his name 10 their Southern Declaration
Of Independence. and leave IT, glorious HEIRLOOM to his
children. But the Establishments o beauty were as pow
eess with the stern patriot a. the battery OF power lie
refused. One year Later man was found murdered on
country road leading to ferry over te h"hssee RIVER
The murdered man was FHn. lie had been waYlald ana
killed by baud Of Rebels On he return from Iehhessee,
where he had gone to obtain authority Tor raising Union
regiment In Georgia.
cred apparently dead, stretched In the dust OF road
near his own dwelling Ia CatnOsa County. He had been
taken from the midst Of his family by Gatewoods nOO-
riOus baud. deliberately shot aud left for dead lie was
carried into KluggOd and through skill and cfre ~ our
finally recovered. InlS nau was fEehly
Yates member Of the Rebel Convention OF lSGl. and
member ~ the Reconstruction Convention OF lsGI
The Rebel pistol shot that feed hun carried away the
entire right eye aud the temple bones. leaving tho eit
eye almost blind from the effects Of the powder whlch
has permanently backened all that portion " his face.
Previous 10 this attempt on his life, all that the Rebels
could rob from his fine farm he had been stripped or ana
little else than the naked land left Nor was his case an
i-oaed Hundreds Of Union men, his neg hbor sur
fcred all he suffered. but not allowed 10 live 10 see
H. MIR Yates is OF North Carolina birth. aud Revolution
airy stock aud has lived I'm Georgia from his youth
have scarcely heard anything more impressive thah me
story Of this excellent mans life told by himself,
sImDy, aud without exaggtrahon In his broad Georgia
dialect | would undertake 10 convert even Comprehend
with H. Beside the appointment Of committees but LIT 10
else was done I'm this sixth days Convention, than the IN.
PRODUCTION 81 ordinance for Homestead law, and
another 70 yacate tle civil offices Of the state.