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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

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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