The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-11
For the True Wing.
In Mannnrian

Ii AemuI1ams III
1t is but one short yea- since, under the same
sad words, we recorded the death Of lovely young
woman, and endeavored to breathe words of conso-
lation to her partner in love. His manly form,
though bowed by suffering then, seemed buided
for the storms of life. His spirit then sighed for a
release of all earthly ties, that it might follow the
pure and loving soul, without whose company life
had become voiceless solitude. Alas little did
we know, who held his bowed head and shared his
sorrow, how soon would be realized that sigh of his
heart.
JOHN SHELBY BARROW died of yellow fever on
the goth ult, at his plantation, "West Oaks, on
Bayou Marangouin La, in the twenty seventh year
of his age. He was the only son of the Hon.
Washington Barrow, of this city. In a community
where he had so long lived, and was so well known,
It is scarcely necessary to say word OF the char
acter and life of the deceased; but affectionate re-
collection of the departed will do its "labor of
love-" in the fond hope of adding to the Immortality
of virtues which cannot die.
We have known the deceased from his earliest
boyhood--we were his school-felow then, and have
shared the friendship of his ripper years. No one
knows better than ourself, how warm a heart was
stilled when he grew puseless under the finger of
DEATH His manly and perfectly developed form
was the index of the generous and capacious nature
1t contained. There was nothing small or selfish or
contracted in his composition. By singular CON-
sination he was formed at once for the grace, and
rougher duties of life. He was chivalrously brave,
courteous in every sphere and in all bis intercourse
with men, as ready to yield what was just as to ex
act what was right. Though he had been the child
of affection all his life, and had enjoyed whatever
taste and young ambition might demand, this in
diligence did not interfere with the strong and
mastery cast Of his intellect At very early age,
he aspired to take his place in the ranks of men,
and to brave the wide competition of the world
He choose that profession, to which more intellect
has been devoted, and on whose shrine more soul
has been offered up, than all other cangs in life.
He commenced the practice of law at Baton Rouge.
His very attractive address, his generous nature,
and bis promising talents soon attached to him
circle of admiring friends, whose affection accom-
panied him to the grave. Having purchased
plantation on Bayou Marangouin, he abandoned his
profession in 1858 that he might give his more I'M
divided attention to bis planting interests
The qualities, to which we have alluded, secured
for him deserved popularity, wherever he might
choose his home. The people of his parish were
not slow to discover the talents and manly virtues,
which gave promise of great public usefulness
lie was nominated for the State Legislature, on the
American ticket, and it was in the pursuit Of this
honor, that the excitement and exposure of pot
zeal campaign invited that disease, which put
period to his promising life. The melancholy dis
pensation has crushed alike the expectations of ad
miring friendship there, and the hopes of fond az
lection here. We utter the language of no cheap
and common eulogy when we say, that his loss will
be felt in his accustomed walks among men, only
less than it will be mourned in the home circle.
He has died, and left pure memory, and we could
pay higher tribute to the longest or shortest life
N.