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    The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio
    The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio
    The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio
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    The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio

    By Frederick W. (Frederick William) Thomas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio - Frederick W. (Frederick William) Thomas

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Emigrant, by Frederick William Thomas

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      Title: The Emigrant

      or Reflections While Descending the Ohio

      Author: Frederick William Thomas

      Release Date: August 4, 2009 [EBook #29606]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EMIGRANT ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, Katherine Ward, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from scans of public domain works at the

      University of Michigan's Making of America collection.)

      THE

      EMIGRANT,

      OR

      REFLECTIONS

      WHILE DESCENDING THE OHIO.

      A Poem,

      BY FREDERICK W. THOMAS.

      "Westward the star of Empire takes its way."

      From the original Edition of 1833, to which is added a memoir of the author.

      CINCINNATI:

      PRINTED FOR J. DRAKE.

      SPILLER, PRINTER.

      1872.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872: By JOSIAH DRAKE, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      CONTENTS.

      PREFACE.

      This Poem was written under the circumstances which its title implies. Three years since, as the author was descending the Ohio, to become a citizen of the West, he wrote a considerable number of stanzas, expressive of his feelings, six or eight of which were published as a fragment on his arrival in Cincinnati, in the Commercial Daily Advertiser, and republished and noticed by different prints in a way that induced the author, from time to time, to add stanzas to stanzas, until they almost imperceptibly reached their present number. He wrote on, without any previous study of the style or manner in which the subject should be pursued––using the poetic license of light and shade as Fancy dictated. Being in ill health, and coming to a strange land, it was very natural for his Reflections to be of a sombre cast, without there being any thing peculiar in his situation differing from that of other Emigrants.

      The reader will perceive that the metrical arrangement of the stanzas is the same as that used by Gray, in his Ode to Adversity, with this difference, that the Ode is written in lines of eight syllables, and the author has attempted the heroic measure.

      After the Poem had been finished some time, the author delivered it in the Hall of the Lyceum to an assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen. Their reception and that of the several editors (to whom he is most grateful) who noticed its delivery, and gave extracts from the Poem, induced him to publish it.

      The author has by him many manuscript pieces with which he might have swelled the volume to a much greater size; but as this is his first attempt at authorship, in the shape of a volume, he offers it, tremblingly, at the ordeal of public opinion, merely as a sample of his ware.

      DEDICATION.

      TO CHARLES HAMMOND, ESQ.

      My Dear Sir,

      Before I had the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, differing from you as I do on many political points, I imbibed some of those impressions against you, which ever attach to an exalted character, when he takes a decided stand in the political arena.

      Permit me, Sir, in acknowledging how much those impressions were prejudices, to inscribe this volume to you, in testimony of my admiration for your talents, and respect for your virtues. And, moreover, as the first encouragement which I received, for this my first literary attempt of any length, proceeded from yourself; if it has merit, I know no one to whom I should more properly inscribe it than to the one, who being entitled to speak ex cathedra on the subject, first cheered me with the hope of its success. And if it shall be found to be destitute of merit, while it shows that your judgment has for once been wrong, it will also prove that the error proceeded from a personal partiality, for which I am anxious to express my gratitude.

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