ch 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.

I am, Sir,
With the greatest respect,
Your obliged friend and humble servant,
THE AUTHOR.

CINCINNATI, _April 23, 1833_.

MEMOIR.