he awaited the coming of the hour when, released from
his prison-house and freed from earth, he should go to his reward. It
came, and ere the spirit was plumed for its final flight, he asked
that its wornout casket should be carried and deposited by those he
loved in life, in the city of his adoption and love; where, in death,
the broken community of life should be restored. This was done, and
now with them he sleeps well.

Memory turns sadly back to many, now no more, who were compeers of Dr.
Clapp, and to New Orleans, as New Orleans was; but to none with more
melancholy pleasure than to Alexander Barrow and E.D. White. These
were both natives of the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Both came to
New Orleans in early life: White, with his father when a child, and
Barrow, when a young man. White was left an orphan when quite young,
in Attakapas, where his father lived, and with very limited means. He
struggled on in the midst of a people whose very language was alien to
his own, and managed to acquire a limited education, with which he
commenced the study of the law, the profession of his father. When
admitted to practice, he located at Donaldsonville, in the Parish of
Ascension, where he rose rapidly to distinction. Appointed
subsequently to a judgeship in New Orleans, he removed there to
reside. This appointment he did not continue to hold for any length of
time, his popularity being such as to point him out as a fit person to
contest with Mr. Livingston the seat in Congress then filled by the
latter. In this contest he was successful, and continued to represent
the district until he was chosen Governor. He filled this chair for
the constitutional period of four years, and immediately upon the
expiration of his term, he was again elected to Congress. He continued
to represent the district until the treachery of a family, numerous
and ignorant, yet influential with their ignorant, uneducated
neighbors, caused him to be beaten. They succeeded subsequently in
placing one of their family in his place, only to show the triumph of
folly and stupidity over worth and intelligence. Yet this cross of an
Irish renegade upon an Acadian woman was a fit representative of a
large majority of his constituents.

The climate of Washington operated injuriously upon his constitution.
Long accustomed to that of Louisiana, it failed to resist the terrible
winter-climate of Washington, and he found his health broken. He
returned to his planta