Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-09-04


Of the river, and lifts it's turreted head |,
ths skies it looks like ons of those an
i tiqua castles whose ruins now line tIIs
q banks Of the Rhine. See this otha
/ noble and beautiful mansion, how ro,
i mantlc It speks from afarl II seems (
i spring from tbs bosom Of bower q
/ yardue. Where yon fag anfufIs ii
proud folds TO ths winds, are The United
States barracks II was there that for.
Inefly stood the fers Of Baton Rouge
The only yesiige which, remains of II il
tbs house tia. a.an.,s alone On the BILL
land was once within Tho waIIa Of tile
fort Go on, and soon you uill admire
the wild romantic beauty Of SCOTS
/ Bluffs an. giving them q parting glance
yoa will bid farewell to The highlands.
and again feast your eyes on tie .nelan.
Icaoly poetry Of The swamp..
| zAs low as are the lands 3D. tie banks
lsof tAe Mississippi they are lower pet,
when you recsdss from lie riYs5 o.
leaving the coast, you inineliatels GO
dowt, an inclined place, tnd continue
gong down IS you move from the
river. !. 55S&5ss
Louisiana was set.lel too soon its.
50 formed Of the deposits of The Mis-
sissippi, lad not time 10 consolidate itself.
Every overflow Of the rlYer raised its
soil, and had tho waters bean suffered
until this DAY to.spread themselves years
" over the country, there would now bs3
no swamp lands, aud the soil wouldte
elevated enough 10 need 40 protection
against the higl, waters. Louisiana.
would be the finest country under The
sun; the designs of the Creator were
that shs should be. Il gas Intended III
wise economy ofnature that the country
Should remain unsettled fors few cen.
taries to come. Bu. the rapacit5 of
man has baff1sd The designs Of Prorl-
lence. sz. ss.ss, -s g4.:*.s-
Ii Western Loui-;aha, there are now
prairies. wllicl, 10 the memory of man,
were lakes. MoTing prairies are now
terra 6rma,, and many other things show
thai The soil was no. yet formed when
the country was settled and GO 10 prove
that the white man took possession Of |
the land before il was ft ~ be inhabi4
ted. s. 49,.
..9 II Louisiana, tfle.e are no romantic |
mountain seenaries. no beautiful land !
scapes, no picturesque sheets of water,
IN tine, no poetry N nature. From reA-
son of that fact, alss will give BIRTH to
no poet. Authors, historians and novel
writers snay be born under tI,eHrays Of
her genial sun and tho canopy Of her
clear, serene sky, but poets she vii! not
produce fer poetry II man il. but ths
Of the poetry of nature. +. is
tile reflection of ou ward romance i'm
printed ii tie .,ninda aid i:naginasions
Of natures favored children; the out
bursts of tl.s noblsr feelings OF man. F
which nurlurad and refined by. constant
coinmnnioa With the beautiful aud sal-E
I'.ne immature, ara made 10 flow IN glow
my language. and 70 readily portray the
received from outward objects.
No cooling stream can flow unless it has
some fountain head, some reservoir from
Which constantly to draw a fresh supply +
by which. it is fed. II, however, theres
should be any thing Ike 8 Louisiana
poet, he would certainly hail from Baton
Rouge, There nature has been nores|
bountitul in l,er gifts, more prpft1se u Il
dispensing her beauties. Ascend oIh4I
m;naret of the d saf and Dumb Asy-
u,s,," and from thence lopk around and |
contemplate tbs LAM 'scape outstrstcIling |,
u every sids. You viii fiad beauties
hat will compensate ) on for the trouble /,
IF the ascension. You vil| see in tf1s
displayed before Jon, iII,ae /,
j! The ROMANTIC. and admire aeensriss
wl,ose existence yoa ignored.
Have ron seen ti,e Garrison Baron
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