The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-01-28
Gb1Wtrkly Golltet
Thursday Morning, &: Jan. as, 1856
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER

whilst nearly every village in the
Union has within the past few years,
had the credit of death of "stll an
other hero gone we people here at
the very centre of the State--in the
quiet Inodesty of our simplicity have
looked on, aud listened Without being
able to say word in this particular.
for ourselves. Is it because we have
no great men among us--no eentena-
rians, no bleak headed bald headed
heroes of the olden time No, gen.
tlemen we can assure you-you peo-
pie who live outside the lines of this
remarkable corporation, that such is
not the case you do us much wrong
to say so. 1t may then be asked with
propriety "why the city press does not
come out with its. columns upside
down, and give us elegant obituaries
Of the departed defuncs, and hold UP
their rirfues to an aamiring crop Of
growing up republicans? The reason
is simply this our city press, bur-
thens itself too mucl will, foreign pol
itics---tle battle Of Inkerman--fnr in
stance, over which more ink has been
wasted than blood then there's that
inexhaustahle theme for the Gazette
the present model administration. The
Democrat is ever burdened with
"Know Nothing exposes" and "Nessel-
rode affairs" and thus it is. that when
"another revolutionary hero goes down
to dusty DEATH" his praises are I'm
sung-unless we (for charity sake)
take hold Of the subject. We have
been waiting to see if either one Of the
above model newspapers would notice
the fact, that three days ago, Dir
Isaacs, hero Of Wasbingtons time.
lay down on the big road near "Da-
vid's place. and positively died The
silence is unbroken, and only fprsootll,
because lsaacs died in borrowed
coat, and pair Of thread bare
breeehes. His body was taken out Of
the road BY couple Of weeping cart
men, who knew him not. aud without
the form Of Inquest TO find what kill
ed him), he was husseled unceremoni.
cusly off "this mortal coil" without
the pomp or circumstance of war; aud
no friends or weeping heir relatives to
mourn his loss. The fact Of the bust
ness is, that Mr.. Isaacs left nothing at
all behind bin--not even as much az
would cover his eyes; and he there
fore went into the next world with bis
"eyes open,' which is q decided ad-
vantage. after all. Besides being 81
hero, Mr.. Isaacs was man of many 7
virtues. His veracity went unques-
toned because forsooth, he had moth
ing like gold ladies' or silver spoons
to give it weight lie therefore talk
ed unquestioned--he could not write,
and hence it is that the world must
ever do without his autobiography -
Let us ask historians and biographers,
If mans greatness does not depend
mainly on his own account of what he
done, and what he didn't do T! If so,
the venerable Mr.. Isaacs was the
greatest man in the Nation. He had
helped Genl. Washington to take off
bis coat, and stood close by, when he
said in an emphatic and not to be )
manner "lsaac get me me !
boots r Genl Isaac came to this
when he was quite small, and :
recolleets distinctly when the Missis-
sippi was no acider than the Teche-
functa now is. He had frequently !
waded across it in aarroae places. Mr.. ,
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