Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-04-25

DsASa % ALvsRp SAxDtns, Esa.-The
public ear has been most severely panied
and The public heart deeply grieved to-day
BY tie announcement that our highly res.
pected fellow siiiaen, Alfred Sanders, 10 m
more. He departed this life at his residence
in this city, this morning, Of typhoid fever,
At the age Of forty six years.
Intimate personal acquaintance With the
deceased for several years. authorizes us in
mskiog the statement that as citizen and
~ private individual, he was among that
Number who we're entitled to the highest
respect and esteem. 1t is not necessary
that We should enter upon any detailed his
tory Of the deceased ~ connected with the
lite and career Of the deceased in this city,
where he has SO long resided and is SO
well known. for that has been more ably
done in an obituary notice. by the Rev. Jas.
Challcn, in another place in this paper yet
- brother Editor Of the departed, we can
not deny ourself the privilege Of few com.
ments q this time.
We became acquainted with Alfred SAM
ders nearly ten years ago. He was then
Editor Of the Davenport Gazette, .. paper
that he had the honor Of founding and
building up, and had been in that position
some fourteen years. We commenced busi-
ness anongside with him At that time, and
for over seven years were his next door
neighbor. Our respective papers were op-
posed to each other in politics, and to out
ward appearance we might have hcen count
ed bitter personal enemies, but We take
pleasure in recording to-day, what is fact,
that Notwithstanding bitter newspaper con-
trovcrsies, there never passed btweef u.
other than VOL ds Of friendship and respect.
No matter what others may have thought Of
him or Of Us. We were never personally at
war, and in all our social and business con-
nections We ever found him true, hearty.
cordial christian gentleman always wiling
to extend favor--rigidly honest, benevo-
lent--in short . true man. Such was our
private personal experience, and such We
knew him to be.
His life was an exemplary one; his death
the subject Of deepes. regret. In his death
his family has lost n most kind and indul-
gent parent; the community in which lie
has so long lived but to BE- respected one Of
its most worthy members. II is no ordin-
ary loss to part with such . man; for We
speak from the book when we say that in
building and enhancing up the interests
Of this city and bringing it to the proud.
prosperous position it now enjoys; no man
living here to-day, can truly say that
lie has done as much rs Alfred Sanders.
1t is fact that the reader may never have
thought OF, but it is q fact neveItheless.-
For more than twenty years his pen VAS
busily engaged in publishing to the world
the praises ofthis locality. Day after day,
week after week, year after year. without
the loss Of . single issue, for almost q quar-
ter Of century, he labored to enhance the
growth and Increase and strengthen the
commerce Of this town, and build up its in
stilut,ons Of religion. learning, and art; and
whose individual efforts accomplished SC
much as his? These are things to be thought
Of, and 70 be remembered. lie who welde
the pen speaks with q thousand tongues, and
the words that drop from his mind oper
shut before him influence thousands. Vest
ed with that power his influence upon ths
growth and prosperity Of this city as well al
upon society was incalculab'e.
lie sleeps in death to day-the heart tina
trobbed in sympathy with mans hest inter
ests, is cold in death, the hanI that nevel
tired in its duty, is pulseless, and the spri
Of truly good man has returned. to th'
God who gave it.