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GEN. VIM. b. HATE-A JUST TRIBUTE.

The Gallatin Examiner, of The 18th, re-
ferring at length to the late trial of the
case Of Hickman Is. Bate in the Circuit
Court Of Nashville, pays the following we'll
merited tribute to as true and gallant a
man as Tennessee has produced:
He IL a Sumner county man, sprung from
its best stock Of old pioneers, who made
their mark in the settlement of Tennessee,
and conquered an empire. Left at fourteen
years Of age an orphan, by the death OF his
father, the eldest of four children, without
estate, or means Of completing an edueaS
ton, from that time, TO our personal knowl-
edge, he has been wedding his own row y
in the battle Of life. Without money, and
cast on his own resources, he began his
struggle az 4 steamboat clerk on the Miss
sissippi, and while thus occupied, in his
teens, and at the outbreak of the Mexican
war, his ardent, patriotic spirit launched
into that contest, where he won honorable
distinction and official mention as a soldier.
The last Aag captured in that war is still
in Tennessee trophy of his boy-yalor.
To say nothing Of his political or profes-
sional career, which was unsurpassed by
few, il any, of his age in our State, and
nothing in detail of his eventful military
life during the late war, starting out as
" high private" Of Co. D." of the I'd Ten
pessee, and closing with the star of Major
General, he returned, when all hope was
over, to the bosom of his young family and
10 a people who esteemed and loved him,
for his manly virtues and chivalrous main
tenance of the "I4ost Cause" after an alb
scence of four years, never having
visited his home since his first depart
IRE. He left a man of handsome fortune
and returned, shot to pieces, a cripple for
life, to find his estate gone, and his own
beautiful home, not only sd desolation,
libelled by the government, and attached
by the vampires who sucked blood from
both sides during the storm Of war, but
who were carefulneyer to spill any of either.
These misfortunes disturbed him but little
as be regarded them but as the results of
his devotion to duty. We may mention
incidentally, that about the time Hickman
WAS arrested by Gen. Bate, at Huntsville,
in the Confederate lines, the Generals
mother and sister were arrested by Federal
officers at Gallatin, for declining to take
the oath prescribed by General Paine, and
his sister banished and separated from her
children, every male member of her family
being absent in the Confederate army
Gen. Bates plantation, that of his mother
aud has gallant brother, who fell at Shiloh
were literally denuded of every piece of
portable property. And had plaintiff
Hickman known Gen. Bate as we do--as a
plucky, proud-spirited school boy gen
erous, brave and talented man-full of
force and energy of character-th dashihg
solder who never told his lines to go for
ward without going along with them-he
might have paused before he sought such
subject to prey upon. We must not omit to
say that the testimony shows that when
Hickman was under arrest Gen. Bate
treated him 1--WE quote) Kindly, courteously
and like gentleman" This need not be
stated TO those who know Gen. Bate, since
he is incapable Of anything that would not
become soldier and gentleman.