Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-07
/ TRUE REPRESENTATIVE

From the Bolivar Bulletin.
s-z- One of the most striking, noted an,
natural characters in the Tennessee Legs
laiure IS the Hon. Julien Scott, the Join
REPRESENTATIVE from Morgan, Scott Fen
trees and Campbell counties, four coun
ties located on the very top of Cunber
land Mountain. BIr. Scott resides In Nor
gan county, where the principal produc
tions are whortleberries, chestnuts anG
children. Julien is something over sixty
years of age and has never had a weeks
sickness during his eventful life, he stands
six feet in his boots, of powerful frame.
and weighs 100 to 200 pounds. with moi
an ounce of surplus flesh on his bones.
During the good old days of stist and
skull@ he divided the champions honors
az 'sighiist' with Charley Francis and
Wiley Robinson, they each being sat-
isfed TO acknowledge the other as
equals and to remain friends and to
fight for and with each other. A
favorite pastime with this trio was to
meet the three AlcGhees, champions of
Meigs county, on halfway ground, near
the mouth of Emory and eight passel; I"
these fights were always known before
hand and were well attended by the deni-
zens and boosters, who came prepared
TO bet their last wild cat and coon skin on
their favorites. A remarkable fact con
nected with these meetings was, that not
withstanding they " fought plenty" as
Uncle Julien says, and "knocked down
and dragged out, no man was ever
whipped or demoralized, however badly
disabled he might be. They always met
as friends. Our hero, on one occasion,
was suffering very much from the kick
of mule; the print of the mules shoe
was indelibly stamped on his side and he
was constantly splitting blood from the
effects of 1t, when his little nephew
came to him aad told him,
"for Gods sake get up, Uncle
Julien, they are about to kill cousin
Bill Long" Julien was feeling weak,
and, thoughtful that in his present condi-
ton he could not do much, told the little
boy to go aud get somebodyelse to relieve
William. In few minutes the little fell
low come running back and begged ''Un-
Gle Julien for Gods sake come and throw
a few rocks Julien could stand it no
longer, but followed his little nephew to
the scene of action, grocery near by,
where he found his cousin Bill being i'm
posed upon by set of eight or nine big
rough mountain boomers, who were SGD
ing for William, clever young fellow,
Just because he had on his camp-meeting
clothes, and, as they thought, held him
self above them. 1t took but moment
for Julien to appreciate the situation, and
forgetting all about his kick in the side
and seeing good showing for little fun,
"waded in, and it was but few mo-
ments till he had the floor covered with
the bodies of those who fell victims to
his ponderous blows, and William was
released from his unpleasant situation,
minus suit of the best clothes that had |
ever been seen on the headwaters of |
Emory.
Notwithstanding Julien's fighting quail !
ties he is one of the most civil men in the |
Legislature, and to see him as he sits |
erect in his seat from morning till night |
one would be as likely to take him for
one of those good, honest, old hard-shell ]
Baptist preachers of whom East Tennes-
see boasts 80 many, as for q fighting
character of the first water.
To show in what high esteem his quail
ties are held by the members of the Legis-
lature, it is only necessary to mention one
little circumstance: On a certain occasion
during the late session of the present
Legislature, the gentleman from Marshall
(Mr. SteeIe) offered bill repeating the
act 10 allow compensation for the scalps
of ''varmints" which, without due con-
sideration by the members of that body,
was in fair way TO become a law, when
Dir. Scott arose and made one of his
forcible speeches against the bill. He
told the House how nearly this
bill affected the interests of his people,
how difficult it was for his constituents to
raise pigs, poultry, sheep and even chill
dren, owing to the frequent raids of the
wild cats, "painters and other SIGH ami
mails, A" and gave the Legislature to under
stand that if this bill should pass each |
and every member who voted for it |
might consider himself personally respon-
sible to him for their vote. This was an |
argument they could not well get over, |
and it only took few moments, thought |
to convince Mr.. Steele that he had better |
withdraw the bill, which he accordingly |
did.
While Mr.. Scott can boast of no supe- |
rior educational advantages, he is noted |
for his good common sense and his |
honesty of purpose, ard is nearly always
found voting on the right side of every
question which comes up. He is fit |
Representative of his people. Would |
that we had more such.