The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-23

remarkable man. Perhaps two more
opposite charactes, in many particulars,
never came in contact.
Gov. Foote, as before stated, was at
that time a member of the Confederate
Congress. Whether he voted for the con-
script law, the officers appointed under
which he denominates the "bloodhounds
of the Davis despotism," know not. 1t
wss passed during the time he was
member of the Confederate Congress,
whether with his sanction or not, L have
no means of ascertaining. One thing ID
certain-he used all his power OF per
suasion to induce Vestol to bear arms
on the side of the "Davis despotlsm,
and was seeking the votes of the soldiers
who were bearing arms on that side, and
obtained the votes of hundreds OF them
with the standing-implied, at
least-that he vas in full accord with
the South in her struggle. On no other
ground could he have received vote.
But to return to the young Quaker.
His case was such an extraordinary one
that Gen. Polk wrote the facts to the
War Department at Richmond, but
never received an answer, so far as am
vile, and from that place he found his
way to the Virginia army, and was as
signed to the Fourteenth or Seventeenth
Tennessee regiment do not now re-
member which. Here he was ordered
to military duty, but firmly refused, as
he had done before. The Brigadier in
command, knowing nothing of his his
tory or antecedents, ordered him to be
bayoneted for disobedience of orders,
and the bayonet was applied to hum re-
peatedly. He bore it with the spirit OF
a martyr, and the soldiers, seeing that
he would die willingly in preference to
sacrificing his principles, refused fur
ther to punish him. No punishment or
threats could shake the settled purpose
of his soul for moment. He was under
arrest all the while. Frequently, on re-
treats, his guard would lose sight OF
him, but in a day or two Vestol would
march up alone into camp.
He made such an impression on ME
that, after the war was over, | inquired
of all those rebs supposed would know
what became of him, and whether he
had survived the war, but none of them
could tell me.
In the year 1871, was sitting in my
office one evening, when young man
walked in and spole to me, and asked
me if my name was not so and so.
told him yes, and asked him to take q
seat, that would talk to him in a few
minutes, as | was engaged Just then
He remarked that he didn't believe
knew him. / looked at him more close
ly, and told him l did not. He asked
me if remembered Quaker at Chatta
nooga that refused to fight. 1 at once
recognized Vestol, and was really glat
to meet him, and made him give me /
history of his ups and downs in the
army after pared with him ut Chatta
nOoga. He told me he was in Castle
Thunder for awhile, at Richmond, bu
was finally permitted by the Secretary
of War to go down to North Carolina t.
school, and was there at the time the
war closed. Feeling that his education
was not sufficient, at the close of tn,
war he went to Rhode Island, and ther,
continued his studies and taught schoo
n portion of the time. He informed
me that it was seven years from the tim'
he left his fathers house to report Il
Bragg at Chattanooga before he re
turned to his paternal roof. He had i'll
vented mode for taking off and put
ting on wagon bodies, for which he ha'
obtained patent, and was selling tn
right when / met him.
1 suppose he is still living in TIL
neighborhood of Columbia, Tenn
Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.