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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Emigrant, by Frederick William Thomas This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio Author: Frederick William Thomas Release Date: August 4, 2009 [EBook #29606] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** 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. PAGE PREFACE iii DEDICATION v MEMOIR vii THE EMIGRANT 9 NOTES 41 ERRATA 48 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 whi
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