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in fact, he was an early exponent of separating the production of
sugar cane from the various manufacturing processes involved
in the finished product. Stansbury had published a series of
articles supporting that innovation in the primary organ of the
Louisiana sugar industry-the Franklin Planter's Banner.3
But in the early 187o's ability in sugar cultivation was not
enough. During the spring of 1874 a severe flood destroyed a
large portion of the sugar crops of the Teche region. Stansbury
was among those completely wiped out.4 In need of immediate
employment, Stansbury placed an advertisement in the Louisiana
Sugar-Bowl, seeking "to secure a situation as Overseer on some
sugar plantation." He was recommended highly by his close
friend the editor, J. Y. Gilmore.5
Gilmore too, was an interesting figure. Having started the
Louisiana Sugar-Bowl in October, 1870, he enjoyed immediate
success by making his paper a refreshing blend of local minutia
and incisive criticism of "carpetbag" rule. The paper appeared
weekly in both French and English, and was later moved to
New Orleans and expanded into the Louisiana Sugar Planters
Journal.6
Stansbury's advertisement brought no results despite his good
reputation. The Louisiana sugar industry, hard-hit by the war
and several poor crop years, offered little chance for employment.
But other less-stricken areas beckoned.
Texas lured Stansbury as it had others before him. He left his
beloved Teche for the sugar country west of the Sabine, arriving
at Galveston on January 17, 1875. Not forgetting his friends at
home-particularly editor Gilmore-Stansbury penned a series of
letters describing his new environment. These letters, signed
"Sussex," were published irregularly in the Louisiana Sugar-Bowl
during i875 and provide a valuable portrait of the post-war
Texas Gulf coast.
8See letter of September 15, 1875, in Louisiana Sugar-Bowl (New Iberia), Sep-
tember 16, 1875. See also ibid., June 11, 1874.
'Ibid., June 11, 18, 1874.
5The advertisement with Gilmore's supplemental editorial endorsement first ap-
peared in ibid., June 18, 1874. It ran continuously until its last appearance in
the issue of December 24, 1874, just before Stansbury's departure for Texas.
6Historical Record Survey of Louisiana, Louisiana Newspapers, z794-940 (Baton
Rouge, 1941), 110-111.500
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