Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-05-26
a REMARKABLE MAN.

we publish In this issue, from the
Chattanooga Times, a Jonesboro letter
to that wide awake paper on "old
times" in this section. The reference
in it to the service in the Confederate
Senate of the late Hon. L. G. Haynes
reminds us of the late ex-Gov. and ex-
Senator Stuart Foote, and of what was
said by that eccentric but brilliant man
OF the h~ardships of service in the Con-
Federated Congress. For the information
OF our younger subscribers we will tell
them something of the record of a man
whose name a generation ago was IA
miiiar all over the land. After fight
ing numerous duels in Mississippi, in
two OF which he was severely wounded
by the brilliant orator, s. S. Prentiss,
and in one Of which Foote wounded.
but did not, thank God" as he used
to say, kill his enemy, he was elected
to the United States Senate. After
serving five years in the Senate, during
winch he had a personal encounter on
the floor Of the same with the great
Benton, of Missouri, and accepted a
challenge to mortal combat from Ben
ton q son in law, Gen. Fremont, he re-
signed in 1850 year of his Senator
ship to run as the Union candidate for
Governor of Mississippi, in which he
was successful, defeating jefferson
Davis, the dis Union candidate. Davis
wished to destroy the Union in 1850 be-
cause California was not made a slave
State. When his gubernatorial term
was half out he resigned that Office in
disgust because the Democracy of Mis-
sissippi repudiated the State debt, and
ne Immediately emigrated to Califor-
MIA, where, in a short time, he came
within n vote of being elected u. s.
Senator.
In this connection we will state that
Associate Justice Lamar, of the U. S.
Supreme Court, says that when he
visited the European capitals as agent
OF the Confederate Government to ne
gotiate the Confederate loan the chief
obstacle to his success was the fact that
the new ~Confederacy had chosen for
its President a citizen of q State which
had r~epudiated its debts. Lamar said
this in a a letter he years age wrote to
Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, con-
graduating the latter on the stand he
had taken against repudiating any por-
ton of Georgia's public debt. Lamar
said ever if the bonds had not been
regularly or illegally issued it was to the
interest OF the State to pay them be-
cause the purchasers had gotten them
in good faith. firing of C~alifornia Gov.
Foote went to Nashville, Tenn, where
he soon married a rich and pretty widow
young enough to be his daughter.
After making a canvass of Middle Ten
nessee in 1860 for Douglass and the
Union in which he denounced the
Breckenridge leaders as vigorously as
Temple, Brownlow and Nelson, of East
Tennessee, he Topped when Fort Sump-
ter was fred on and was elected to the
Confederate Congress. In 1876 he again
Topped and became elector for the
state at large, on the Hayes ticket.
While he was in this canvass the writer
of this said to him: Governor, would
you have accepted another election to
the Confederate Congress had the col
lapse Of that Government not taken
placer" Instantly the old man replied:
"No sirl my God, no sir when / left
Nashville for the Confederate Congress,