The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-12-06

and generous, and devoted to hil
friends. He was a very andsoin,
4 Young man, with a bright, cIleerfu
face, ever inspiring confidence and
| good feeling. he was rather un
der ordinary height and well pro
portioned, with great activity and
strength. Ills manners. were. mol
only pleasing and polished, bat
really fascinating, and no one
cOnid be IN company with him
without feeling kindly towards
him but with al! his talents, at.
fractions and brilliancy, he was
not a man of wisdom, or jndg-
ment, or stability OF character.
He bad strong, feelings aud i'm.
pulses which generally controlled
bis action and Judgment. lie was
a man OF high spirit and dauntless
courage. His impulses and his
passion involved him in 4 great
many difficulties Of q very serious
character. / remember, on one
occasion, whilst he was reading
law with me, having to rush be
tween him and Thomas +. CAN'T
to prevent tleir firing OH each
other. They had commenced n
political discussion, which did not
continue long before they drew
their pistols, and but for the inter
ference of myself md others,
would have exchanged shots in the
street! In quarrel with DR..
Earle, the uncle Of his wife, he
drew his pistol and shot him. The
doctor died in a.tew hours. Yam.
ceJ was tried and convicted of
manslaughter.
In tbi-. affair, however, he did
what few men of spirit might not
have done, under the circum.
s,ancce. The day previous, he had
had difficulty with DR.. Earle's
son, who was quite lad. Yam.
cev sought the doctor, and explain
ed to him the difficulty with his
con, who seemed to be perfectly
satisfied. The next day he was in
curing for, ,Yancey with a blud-
geon in his hands. Yancey went
up to him in perfect good humor
and anticipated no difficulty. lie
gave Yancey the lie and d. CIV his
stick: immediately, Yancey drew
his pistol, and presenting it, told
tho doctor to take it back or take
a shot" Or. Earle rushed towards
him and Yancey's pistol fired J.
But ancey assured me, co,.tiden-
TALLY, that il was not his purpose
to fire the pistol, and that he did
fire it involuntarily under the ex-
element. lie afterwards made
affidavit to this fact, and | have
never for moment doubted the
truth of the assertion. He was
defended by Judge Wardlaw, Mr..
Bnrt and myself. HIS sentence
was fine and imprisonment, which
Governor Noble pardoncd in few
weeks.
Whilst in Grcenvillc, Mr.. Yam.
cey was editing u Union newspa.
per and reading law. lie was
then a very strong Union man,
and dealt out to the nullitiers and
.secessionists some terrible blows,
for their disunlon proclivities. Lit
tie did | then think that he was
destined to blow up tho Union
himself, in tho course of a few
gears! low hard it is to an,ici-
pate the future in politics. He
wrote with great vigor, and held
a bold, dashing pen. After his
ma, riagc to Miss Earle, he moved
So Alabama, and was there some
time occupied in editing a newspa.
per. lle was soon elected to the
legislature. failed in planting, and
commenced the profession of law.
In a few years, he was elected a
mem ber OF Congress, and fought q
duel with General ClingmaD, prct.
tty soon after taking his seat in the
House f Representatives He
made speech, too, about the same
time, which, attracted great public
attention. In two or three years,
he resigned his seat in Congress,
joined the church and resumed his
profession.
lhe spirit Of abolitionism was
growing at the North, and dis
unionism ripening at the south
Yancey was one Of those fiery spir-
its who could not witness an cx
citement without enlisting on one
side or tho other and, having
once girded on his sword, he
plunged in for the war. lie can.
vassed Alabama, and went North
to make speeches. He was thor
oughly inbned with a revolution.
airy feeling, andTboasted that the
Cotton States would be precipita-
ted into war with the North. lie
was sent as q commissioner to Eu
rope in tho early history OF the