The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-09-12
BELLEVUE, LA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ID, 1868.
the port of New Orleans. He died in
Orchard Springs, Kentucky. August
ID 1884

Orchard Springs, Kentucky, August
IA, 1854.
On the 10Th of January, I847, Pierre
Soule was elected to fill the vacancy
occa ssioned by the death of Alexander
Barrow. and served until the Sd OF
March Of that year. Mr. Soule was
born in Castillion, in the Pyrenee, du-
ring the consulate of Napoleon. He
was destined for the church, and in
1916 was sent to the Jesuits' College,
at Toulouse. He was afterwards sent
to complete his studies. at Bordeaux.
At the age Of Is he took part in CON
spiracy against the Bourbons, and the
plot having been discovered, he was
obliged to take refuge in a little vii
lege of Navarro, where he remained
for more than one year. following the
occupation of a shepherd. He was
permitted to return to Bordeaux; bnt
he longed for a more exciting scene of
action, and accordingly repaired to
Paris. There, in conjunction with
Bartholemy and Merry, he established
paper advocating liberal republican
sentiments. This soon brought him
under the eye of the authorities, and
he was put on trial. His advocate ap-
pealed in the clemency of the court in
behalf of the prisoner on the score of
his youth. This line of defence did
not suit the prisoner, who rose from
his seat and addressed the court, deny
ing the criminality of his opinions
and conduct. His eloquence did not
save him from Ste. Pelagie, whence he
succeeded in making his escape, Dis
appointed in his expectations Of obtain
ing a situation in Chill, which was
promised him, and finding himself
alone in q strange country, wholly ig-
norant of the language, he returned to
France. At Hayre he met friend, a
captain in the French navy, who ad
vised him to seek an asylum in the
United States. and offered him a pas
sage in his ship to st. Domigo. He
accepted the proposition. and arrived
at Port prince in September, 1925.
From this place he took passage to
Baltimore, and finally removed to New
Orleans in the fall of 1925. Having
determined to make law his profession,
he first applied himself assiduously to
the study of English, and passed his
examination for the bar in that language
and was admitted. In IS47 he was elected
a Senator in Congress, and was reelected in
l849 for the term of six years in the room of
Henry johnson. Upon the accession of
Mr.. Pierce to the Presidency in 1853, he
was appointed Minister to Spain, and soon
after his arrival became involved i'll quar-
rel with Mr.. TurgOt, the French Ambassa-
dor, whom he severely wounded in duel
lie returned to the United States in 1855,
and has since taken but little part in public
affairs.
John Slidell was born in the city of New
York in 1888 He entered commercial life
but was not successful, and renewed to New
Orleans, where he embraced the profession
OF the law. He was appointed by President
jackson U. s. District Attorney. He was
frequently elected to the State Legislature
and was Representative III Congress from
IS43to 1915. In 1915 he was sent by Presi
dent Polk as Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, to negotiate
for the settlement of the threatening ques
tion then in dispute between the two coun
IFieS. 1HlS IulSSlOH prONcu ifulUleSS. IN ioot
he was chosen U. s. Senator for the unexpir
ed term of Senator Sotlle, who had been ap
pointed Minister to Spain, and was after
wards re elected for six years He has been
in Europe since 1862 1t
Judah Peter Benjamin was sent to the U
S. Senate as successor of s. w. Downs, whose
term expired en the Sd of March, 1853. Ben
!jamin was born, it is said in 1872, in st. Do
mingo, where his parents, both Hebrews
from Jamaica, were then residing. In l8lt
the family emigrated to Savannah, Ga.
whence in 1925, just after he was l3 years
old, the son was entered at Yale College
but left without graduating in 1927 about
| which time his father died In 1881 he went
/ to New Orleans to study law. He entered 8
notary's office, and at the same time obtain
| ed situation as teacher in a school. Ad
mitted to the bar in 1884, he soon rose to the
head of the profession in New Orleans At
tached to the Wing party in politics, he wa
in lS45 member Of the Convention held Il
revise the Constitution of the State. II
1852 owing to his popularity among tht
/ Whig leaders in the State, he was chosen t,
succeed Senator Downs. He was re-eleetet
| in 1859.
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