CHAPTER XXXI.
BLOWING UP THE LIONESS.
DOCTOR CLAPP--VIEWS AND OPINIONS--UNIVERSAL DESTINY--ALEXANDER BARROW
--E.D. WHITE--CROSS-BREED, IRISH RENEGADE AND ACADIAN--HEROIC WOMAN--
THE GINSENG TRADE--I-I-I'LL D-D-DIE F-F-FIRST.
Dr. Clapp, so conspicuous in the annals of New Orleans, was from New
England, and was located in New Orleans as a Presbyterian minister, as
early as 1824, and about the same period that the great and lamented
Larned died.
His mind was bold and original, analytical and independent. Soon after
his location and the commencement of his ministry, he gave offence to
some of his church, and especially to some of his brother pastors, by
the enunciation of opinions not deemed orthodox.
There was at this time preaching at Natchez, one Potts, who was a
Presbyterian, a Puritan, and extremely straight-laced in doctrine, and
eminently puritan in practice, intolerant, bigoted, and presumptuous.
Potts had accomplished one great aim of his mission: he had married a
lady of fortune, and assumed more purity than any one else, and was a
sort of self-constituted exponent of the only true doctrines of his
church.
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