. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ergy with which he com-mences and prosecutes every undertaking. This led to the bold ven-ture of settling in Maysville without friends or fortune ;—this sustainedhim amid all the embarrassments and the temporary clouds and reversesincident to the beginning of his trade. It has impressed itself so deeplyon the community, that he can command more credit than any man ofhis means in the state; and the confidence of the people in the triumphof any enterprise is at once secured if he be
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ergy with which he com-mences and prosecutes every undertaking. This led to the bold ven-ture of settling in Maysville without friends or fortune ;—this sustainedhim amid all the embarrassments and the temporary clouds and reversesincident to the beginning of his trade. It has impressed itself so deeplyon the community, that he can command more credit than any man ofhis means in the state; and the confidence of the people in the triumphof any enterprise is at once secured if he becomes enlisted in it with is so true that it has become almost a popular motto. With hisother qualities it is certain to give him the highest success; and it isnot indulging unreasonably in the spirit of prophecy to say, that, if hislife is spared, the most brilliant fortune and the happiest future awaithim. The likeness which accompanies this brief memoir is a correct repre-sentation of its subject, and at once strikes the beholder as indicative ofmanliness, nobility, boldness, and talent. t -r^/. ? HO:Ko ^EIJOS ILABii^IT OTFZJLQUEMJlfE, JjOUJSZiUZd JSTta^for^utaraphiJzal Jketcfws of S7nxrLerU>jimericwvLawy£rs. ZEKON LADAUVE, OF LOUISIANA. H HON. ZENON LABAUVE, OF PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, Was born in the parish of West Baton Rouge. State of Louisiana, onthe 10th of February, 1801, of French descent. His father, PierreLabauve, was born in the parish of St. James, in the same state; hismother was a native of France. In July, 1834, he was elected to the State Senate against a verystrong man who had been in that body for years. In 1838 he was acandidate again, but was defeated by his former competitor, on theground that in 1836 he had been at first opposed to the pledge of thefaith of the state in fiivor of the Citizens Bank, although he afterwardsvoted for the measure, under instructions of a large number of constitu-ents. In 1842, the failing of the bank
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