Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-11-23

G PARISH DEAD

S'SstA 1NCD
most intelligent aud energetic planters in
the South. In everything pertaining to
local or general welfare, their labors
were acknowledged and appreciated by
every one. The history Of the previous
ten years showed now we'll their efforts
were directed to the social and agricuItu-
raj condition of the parish. We were
then a happy and prosperous people
Poverty there was but little, and that was
cared and provided for. Money was
pleutiful-few seemed to feel the want Of
it. The parish was a model of order and
harmony 10 all its laws, ordinances and
operations. Levees, roads, bridges, ect.,
were all that could be desired for safety
aud convenience. Friendship existed be-
tween all classes. Politics were Y
suffered to interfere with parish legislat
ion or parish interests, no matter how
wide Or distinct party lines might have
been drawn. The public good was up
pernost in every mind, and upon that
strict and correct principle one Wed with
the other. We claimed ours, then, to be
the model parish of the State and none
dared deny it. Row things have chang,
ed since then Many Of our noblest and
brightest ornameu have fallen beneath
the scythe of the inexorabie destroyer.
and gone to the hong sleep that knows
no waking. When We look around for
those once familiar faces, we feel as if
we were in a desert, studded only with
tombstones recording the names ard
many virtues of our honored parish dead.
1t is melancholy to witness the fearful
ebasm that death h.s created in our midst
and, with many others, can bear personal
testimony to worth OF those who once
adorned our social circle. No ether par.
ish in the State, in the same time, has
sustained SO large a loss of prominent
and useful citizens as ours. When we
miss from the walks of every day life
such men as Fl. S. Flynn, Capt. D. P
Cain, ". w. Lennon. DR.. ". j. Lyle,
John Buhier, A. A. Williams, Abram
bobdet, John A. Bird, DR.. &c. Patrick,
Hebert, F. 4. Allan, Gov. Hen
~ w. Allen. John L. Lobdell, Villeneuve
Blanchard, VIM. Nolan, Stephen Pipes
and Frame A. Woods, We may well say
our glory, in the main, has DEPARTED
they have left a record of their virtues
engraven upon the hearts of their former
and fellow citizens.
We confess to a feeling of sadness
flls our heart and points our pen
as we write of those honored men. From
hem we received nothing but kindness of
be most sincere aud substantial charac
.er. We felt and appreciated their worth
when a stranger here, years ago, and we
now from sad experience how deeply
heir loss is felt by all classes of our citi.
ems, now that their voices are no longer
leard, their manly forms no longer seen
n the d~esolation which now oyerspreads :
'ur once beautiful and prosperous parish i
White deploring those whom death I
as removed from among US, candor and 9
nstice compels us to refer to others whom !
ne Flcissitndes of "grim visaged war &
ave compelled to seek homes elsewhere. q
We allude to such men as DR.. j. T. No. p
An, w. D. Winter, W. B. Robertson. c..
Lobdell, E. B. Trinidad, A. S. Robert. s
On, David Pipes, Valentin Trahan and
ierre Thibodeaux, as among the most
sstu| and Industrious of those who once
onored West Baton Rouge as their v
ones. We wish them all prosperity tt
the future and trust they may never II
ave cause to regret their change, and !
'at they may be rewarded as their truly P
,nest merit deserves. M
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