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In all the history of literature there has never
lived an author who has been placed more com-
pletely under the ban of society, than Edgar Allen
Poe. Every one of his bad qualities—hls ambi-
tion, his hatred of his literary cotemporarics, his
vacillating conduct—has been singled out, and ex-
posed in every light that could make it more
hideous than it really was. In this respect,
Poe is almost alone. Richard Savage had a sturdy
apologist in Dr. Johnson. Coleridge, although he
left the support of his family and himself to his
friends; although he was the victim of the opium
habit, and used every subterfuge, however small

ormean, to obtain his favorite drug, has been de—
fended and excused. ‘

Poe, on the contrary, has been followed with
abuse and contumely. His only biographer, Ru-
fus Wilmot Griswold, has distorted the materials
which were placed in his hands; he has concealed,
with the most ingenious care, all his good qualities,
and brought forward into the most glaring promi-
nence, every thing which might redound to his
shame. _

Bacon has said of satiricalwriters, that although
they might make men afraid of their pens, they had
reason to be afraid of their victim’s memories.
Never has this been better illustrated than in the
life of Poe. There was a time when he pursued
Griswold with the most vindictive criticism; he
made him the laughing-stock of literary America
of that day, for however much Griswold’s admirers
may have condemned Poe, it would be giving hu-
man nature too much credit to suppose that there
were not at least a few who envied the success
which his compilation of American poetry had met,
and enjoyed his discomﬁture.

Some time afterwards, ’Poe so far humbled him-
self as to make a public apology to his adversary,
and friendly intercourse was again resumed be-
tween them; but the poison of his satire had en-
tered Griswold’s soul, but fearing to strike again
at his powerful rival while living, he awaited the
opportunity which soon came. At Poe‘s death he
was appointed his literary executor, and all of the
dead Poet’s papers, were placed in his hands. How
he used, or rather abused them, is well known,
and presents a veriﬁcation of the old proverb that
an ass may kick at a dead lion.

Griswold was at that day the Jeffrey of our litera—
ture. A pinchbeck Jeffrey indeed, but nevertheless
his word was law, and the weight of his curse has
dragged the name ofPoe down to dishonor.

But retribution came. Shortly after Poe’s death
Griswold married a Jewess for her wealth, but when
he found that her people had cast her off, and that the
golden shower he was expecting would not fall, he
deserted and left her alone and friendless to the
cruelty of the great world. Two years afterwards,
he married a wealthy Portland lady, neglecting,
however, the very necessary formula of getting a.
divorce from his ﬁrst wife. Discovery followed,
and nothing but his position in society and his in-
ﬂuential friends saved him from the, punishment
which the laws have provided for bigamy. After
that, his name disappeared from the literary hori-
zon. People ceased to think of him and his opin-

ions, and a few years ago he died, obscure and

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friendless, in a miserable tenement house, having
been saved from want and starvation by the chari-
ty of a few of his old~time admirers. Had every
slanderous story been true which was told of the
Poet, would he have suffered much in comparison
with his detamer?

There is no American author ranking with Poe,

of whose life so little is known by the majority of-

readers. He stands apart from his cotemporaries,
gloomy and alone. Every crime, except murder,
that could have been committed, has been attribu—
ted to him. His industrious calumniator supplied
that portion of his life of which little is known, at
the same time taking particular pains to gather
the unreliable and distorted stories that passed
from mouth to mouth, and had their foundation in
rumor and ignorance.

There are two great faults in Poe’s character, the
existence of which, his most ardent admirers will
not deny, his ambition, and his love of drink.
But if ever there lived a man over whom the man-
tle of charity and palliation could be ﬂung, Edgar
Allen Poe was that man. His whole life was
moulded and shaped by circumstance. His father
and mother belonged to a company of strolling ac-
tors, and died in extreme poverty. The Poet was
adopted by a Mr. Allen, a wealthy Virginia gen-
tleman. Naturally high-tempered and ambitious,
Poe’s childhood was not calculated to temper these
imperfections. He was indulged in every whim,
allowed to do as he pleased at all times, and ruined
forever by the mistaken kindness of his benefac-
tor. His after life is a chaos—at perpetual war
with himself and the world. It is a sad, Weary
story of a struggle against the temptations of the
wine cup and of despair. Pursued by poverty and
and want, denied his legitimate position in litera-
ture, scorned by men over whom he stood intellect-
ually, head and shoulders, and selling the produc—
tions of his pen for the wherewithal to keep the
gaunt wolf, starvation, from his door, it is a strange,
dark picture. He had made resolutions to reform,
and had resolutely lived up to them. Life was
again opening to his gaze with something of its
former loveliness. Olden hopes and olden dreams
were coming back to him, and once more a bright
future appeared before his eyes. But alas! for poor
hamanity, the world is full of temptations and pit-
fa ls.

While on the way to fulﬁll an engagement in a
Northern State, he stopped for a few hours in Bal-
timore, and by chance, met some of his old West
Point friends. They invited him to attend a
champagne supper that evening. He refused for a
time, but at last yielded to their solicitations and
went, demanding the condition, however, that they
should not offer him any wine. But it was the old,
old story. In the midst of the revel he allOWed
the ﬁrst glass to pass his lips, many others fol-
lowed, and that night Whi e wandering around the
streets insane with liquor. he was attacked and
beaten and left insensibie in the streets. The next
morning he was found and carried to the hospital.
When he became conscious, one of the attendants
asked him if he could do anything for him. “Yes,”

replied Poe, “if you will take a pistol and blow my’

brains out, you will do me a favor.” Shortly after-
wards he fell into a stupor, and died as he had’
lived—alone and friendless. ,

The character of Poe has been entirely misun-
derstood by the gr'eat'majority of his readers"- They
have gathered from a casual reading of his tales,
an “erroneous and ridiculous” idea of him, both
as an author and a man. rHe has been considered
a sort of American Faust, as one who stood
aloof from society and the world, knowing no so-
cial enjoyment, and with no companions but his
own fearful thoughts. A careful perusal of his
essays will show how ﬂimsy is the foundation upon
which this opinion rests. ,

Poe was a very ambitious man; he considered
himself the greatest American writer and poet of
the time, and subsequent opinion has decided
that he was correct in his judgment. But his
position in literature was not recognized. He saw
men who were his inferiors in every thing, go
above him, and here lies the root of his bitter on-
slaught upon his contemporaries, which so
effectually estranged him from the literary men
of his day. Possessing a very delicate organiza-
tion, the slightest annoyance aggravated him ex—
tremely, and, no doubt, this isolation from the ex-
isting literary circles had a strong effect upon him.
He went through life hating all men, and with
every man’s hand‘against him.

Poe was agenuine poet. His “Raven” is un-
doubtedly one of the ﬁnest poems (of its length)
in the English language. His tales and essays

betray his great reasoning powers, and his abil-'

ity to analyze all the passions of the human heart.
His faults and imperfections were many, but they
scarcely exceeded his temptations, and it would be
well for us not to form our opinion too hastily, but
to remember the words of Him who was all justice
and mercy: “Judge not that ye be not judged.”

What enigmas the lives of gm at men are!—
What a strange mixture of grandeur and vice.
Think of Bacon accepting a bride! Of Marlowe

killed in a pot-house ﬁght! Of Byron and his

wild career. There is an old story told by Haw-
thorne in one of his earlier works, of a huge stone
which stood at the head of a valley, and at a dis-
tance resembled the face of a digniﬁed old man,
but on coming up to it, it did not differ materially
from the rest of the boulders around it. So are
lives of too many of the literary giants of the
world. We look up to them when a long vista of
years separates us from them, and they appear
digniﬁed and noble, but go nearer—study their
lives and their motives, and we ﬁnd, alas, too
often, that they are but as those about them.

,..,“Why is it,” ask a Frenchman ofa Switzer, “that you
Swirs always ﬁght for money, while the French only ﬁght for
honOr?” “I sup,ose,” answcred the Swiss, ‘ that each ﬁght
for what he must lacks.”

_—

. . . . A graphic reporter says of a woman who died suddenly,
that "she died Without medical assis ance." [This remark

causes the average mind to pause and wonder how much med;-
cal- assistance one needs in dying]

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OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY.

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The ardent yearnings, and the burning aspirin
tions of theuhuman soul for a happier state of ex-
istence, in conjunction with the consciousness of
an uncompromising law of duty legitimate, the
inference that there is a road leading to its attain-
ment. To take this step, to find this road, cer-
tainly ought to be the most earnest and the
paramount desire of every human heart.—
Anterior to the introduction of Christianity, man
with intense interest studied the abstruse theories,
and recondite disquisitions of the profoundest
philosophers that ever had adorned the Father’s
footstool. “7e listened with untiring eagerness
to the eminent and eloquent teachers,

“Whose words had such a melting ﬂow
And spoke of truth so divinely sweet;
They dropped like heaven’s serenest snow.

And all was brightness where they fell.”

The deep and articulate researches of great
men, strong of mental limb, the heroes of in-
tellectual tournaments, were all unavailing, and
incompetent to the discovery of that road, which
lay concealed from ﬁnite, vision in the inscrutable
purpose of the Inﬁnite.

Human philosophy could not teach the first les-
son of that wisdom, whose ways are “ways of
pleasantness,” and whose paths are "paths of
peace.” All were eager in pursuit of the phan—
tom that continually eluded the grasp of giant
minds. Man needed instruction from on high——
The Great Teacher, the Divine Incarnate, has
pointed out the narrow way that leads to unend-
ing and consumate bliss. In his incomparable
sermon on the Mount, the ﬁrst trait of character
enumerated as necessary to happiness is humility.
Happy are the poor in spirit, is the declaration of
Eternal Truth. This is an exceedingly difﬁcult
lesson for unregenerate humanity to learn; but it
has beenimpressed upon the minds of men both
by precept and by example. Christ taught it, and
his practical life was an impersonation of that
compliment of Truth he so efﬁciently illustrated.
From the zenith of glory in the heavens, he des-
cended to the lowliest position on earth. To teach
this important lesson was the object he had in
view, when he become the son of Mary, and toiled
at the carpenter’s trade. But the pride of the
human heart rises up and rebels against our first

step, in following “the meek and lowly One,” in ‘

the only true road to happiness. Will beauty con-

fer happiness? Is “beauty a thing of joy for,

ever?”
Time will beauty wear away
And outward forms will soon decay.

It is but as a “fading ﬂower.” Old age and
wrinkles will soon overtake us, and the Venus of
other days will be glad to hide her ugliness and
deformities in the grave.

Will. wealth insure happiness? "Riches take
to themselves wings and ﬂy away.” Houses burn,
banks fail, and titles to land prove defective. Even
granting uniform prosperity in the accumulation

of wealth, we must soon bid farewell to our secu~
lar acquisitions. We brought nothing into the
world, and we can take nothing hence. Shrouds
have no pockets. Can the transitory honors, the
pomp and glory of this world satisfy the thirst
of the soul for an inexhaustible well of happiness?
To the lost spirit in the regions of despair, the
applause of earth’s teeming millions must sound
like solemn mockery.

The fact that we have inscribed our names high
up on temples of fame will not mitigate the suf—
ferings of unremitting pain after death. Instead
of being vain of our intellectual attainments, and
of high reputation among our fellow-mortals,
we should reﬂect that “to whom much is given,

bears a very small ratio to what they cannot com-
prehend. Indeed the finite is no part of the in‘
ﬁnite. Sir Isaac Newton, whose profoundest learn-
ing and eminent piety have inscribed on his men-
ument in Westminster Abbey, “Let mortals
congratulate themselves that such an ornament to
human nature has existet ,” used to compare him-
self to a child picking up here and there a shell
on the shore, while the great ocean of truth, un-
traversed, rolled in boundless expanse before him.
In the VVorld’s history the wisest men have been
l the most humble. Vanity is an unerring exponent
! of some mental imbecility. Can we vaunt our-
l selves of our moral purity and Christian excel-
lencies? Surely any merit or any virtues of this
nature we may chance to have, will never vindi-
cate the entertainment of a vain-glorious spirit.
th0 can descend into the dark dungeon of his
own heart, and by the light of the torch of truth
scrutinize its hidden corners and slimy recesses.
“The inspection of its motley quest tempting us
to regard it as
“The ClSLCl‘H for all creeping things
To knot and gender in ;”
who can do this without exclaiming, in the lan-
/ guage of the sweet Psalmist of Israel: “Create
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within me a new heart, Ohi Lord, and renewa
right spirit within me?” “To have nothing of
which we can reasonably boast. So far from being
proud of our moral worth, it becomes us rather
to shed tears of blood over the sad defections and
rightful obliquities of corrupt and fallen hu~
It is necessary to the at vainment of hap~

ourselves scrupulously
influence of iizzfsde'recr‘cd
pride and ambition. “By that sin fell the angels;
how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope
\VC

manity.
,piness that we guard
2 against the seductive

to win by it”—either honor n’or happiness.
l must walk low down in that beautiful valley where
l love crowns the meek and the lowly, if we would
l be happy here, and attain to the beatitudes of the
just, to the glad fruition of the eternal beyond.
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty all that wealth ere gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

. ....An old lady upon taking her ﬁrst ride in the ears, re»
p marked, when the train rm of the track, "You fetch up rather
l sudden, don’t you."

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much is required,” and that what the wisest know.

#8 THE C(lLLEGIﬂJV

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A TALE OF A POSSUM.

The nox was lit by lux of luna,
Ett was a nox most opportuna
To chase a possum or a coona;
For nix was scattered o’er this mundus—
A shallow nix et non profundus.
On sic a nox, with canis unus,
Two boys went out venari coonus.
The corpus of this bonus canis
Was full as long as oeto span is;
But brevior legs had canis never,
Quam canis hie bonus et clever.
Some used to say, in stultum jocum,
Quod a ﬁeld was too small locum,
For sic a dog to make a turnus
Cireum se from stem ad stenus.

Unus canis, duo puer,
N unquaum braver, nunquam truer,
Quam hoe trio unquam fuit;
(If there was, I never knew it.)
This bonus dog had one bad habit:
Amabat much to tree a rabbit,
Amabat bene chase a eattus,
Amabat plus a hungry rattus.
But on this nixy moonlit night
Fecit eanis hie just right;
Nunquam chased a starving rattus,
Nunquam treed a hungry cattus;
But eucnrrit et intentus
On the track and on the scentus,
Till he treed a possum strongum
In a hollow trunkum longum.
Loud he barked in horrid bellum—
On terra seemed venisse hellum.
Quickly ran the duo puer,
Mors of possum to secure.
Quum venisent, one began
To chop away like quisque man. .
Soon the ax went through the trunkum,
Fast the blows fell, salit chunkum.
Combat deepens, on ye bravus!
Canis, puer, bite et stavus.
As his powers no longius tarry,
Possum potest non pugnare.
On the nix his corpus licth,
Down to Hades spirit ﬂieth.
Joyful puers, canis bonus,
Think him dead as any stonus.
“Aint his corpus like a jelly?”
Quid plus proof ought hunter velle?
Now they seek their pater’s domo,
Feeling proud as any homo,
Knowing certe they will blossom
Into heroes, when with possum
They arrive, narrabunt story,
Plenus sanguine, tragic, gory.
Pompey, David, Crassus, Caesar,
Cyrus, Black Hawk, Shalmanezer,
Tell me where est now the gloria,
Where the honors of Victoria?
Pater praiseth, like-wise mater,
Greatly wonders junior frater.

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Possum leave they on the mundus,

G0 themselves to sleep profundus.
Somniuent possums slain in battle,
Strong as ursae, large as cattle.

When nox gives way to lux of morning,
Albam terram much adorning,

Straight they go quaerere varmen

Of the quod hoe est the carmen.
Possum hie est resurrectum,

Leaving puers most dejcetum.

Possum linquit track behind him,

Sed the puers never ﬁnd him,

Cruel possum! bestia vilest!

How the puers tu beguilest!

Puers think no more of Caesar—

Go to gramen, Shalmanezer! ,, ,>
Take the laurel cum the honor,

Since iste possum is a “goner.”

A QUESTION AND AN ANSIVER.

Percontator. I’d like to know who Nihilﬁt,
And where it was he ﬁt and when;

I’d know just how the matter went,
And if young No'hz'l licked his men.

Did Nilzz'l “let go with his right?”

Didn’t t’other “punch him in the gob ?”
Did Nz'hz'l “bore him to the ropes,”

And “counter” on the fellow’s “nob?”

In vain is all my questioning,

A full account was never writ—~—
And all that I can ever know,

Is simply this, young .Nihz‘l ﬁt.

Quz’ response dat. Verbum sat upon the grass
And held the head of poor Sic Transit, _, 1 "“"‘«\
Who bled from gashes sharp and deep
As the incisions of a laneet.
For Trans/it had a little mill
\Vith that ﬁerce bruiser, young .Nz'hz'l,
And he was “blown a bit:”
‘Vhat sickened Transit, “one what knows,”
Insists was heavy “body blows”
Received about themouthyand nose,
When he and Nihz’l ﬁt.

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[CONTINUED]
About this time of the additions to the Insti-

tute were Messrs John Downs, of Louisville, Clar-
ence Blakemore, of Christian County, Kentuky;
George Hillman, of Clarksville, Tennessee; W. R.
Rust, of Arcola, Illinois; T. Fish, Bourbon County,
Kentucky, and Leathers, of Peoria, Illinois.

In accordance with their feelings and the custom

of the Universsty the Institute appointed a dis.
creet committee to get up and report a progaamme
for an open session, during the commencemeet ex«
ereises in June, 1868, whice was done. Thence-
forward, every point was strained towards a prepa-
ration for that time, and nothing was omitted that
was likely to add lustre to the occasion. The old
plain blue and gilt badges were discarded, and a

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more showy and costly number were resolved upon.
—that hereafter were to be the order of the clay.
A string band was engaged beforehand, and with
laudable zeal they determined to present with
the Cadet gray and brass button, sword belts and
red sashes, a more imposing display than either
the Cecropian, Periclean or Philothem societies,
which were each to occupy a day in turn. The
night of June 28th saw the University Hall ﬁlled
with the literati of Lexington, the ﬂash of light,
display of dress, and the marshals in full cadet
uniform, distributing programmes, which were as
follows: Thesis—The moral inﬂluence of agricul-

ture. J. R. Dabney, Trigg county, Kentucky, ora-
tion. The Oppressed demand our Sympathy——
Benton McMillan, Monroe county, Kentucky.

Oration—Kentucky, J. W. Downs, Louisville, Ky.
Debate—Questisn, Are the human races of a com-
mon origin, Alf. W. B. Munson, Fulton county,
111. Negative—- C. Blakemore, Christian county,
Ky. Paper—Brass-Button, J. C. May, Spencer 00.,
Ky. Marshallst. M. Woodson, Ky., G. Hillman,
Tenn., E. S. Bowman, Ky., W. R. Dust, Ill. In
making choice of subjects the wish and opinion of
friends amongst the Faculty were consulted. Now
numbers‘applied for admission into the Ashland
Institute, which entered upon the full tide of its
success. Its membership was composed of tne
most advanced matriculates of the College, who
embraced the best of the rank and ﬁle of the bat-
tallion. Thus a marked effect was made upon the
conduct and studious habits of their pupils. So
apparent was this, that another and a sister Socie-
ty was organized, the Adelphian, by some students
of the A. & M. C., as also, at a later period another,
the Yost. The Brass—Button made its appearance
from time to time, and an effort was made to
change its name, but this failed (from the opposi-
ion such a move encountered.) The session of
1868-9 came on, and with it returned the working
members of the Ashland Institute, who set about
supplying the places of absentees and to bring
about a system of friendly emulation the Institute
was equally divided as to number and talent, one
side being placed under the championship of Clar-
ence Blakemore, the other of J. R. Dabney. The
exercises were so arranged by the President, that
each division occupied every other regular meeting
night. Prominent among the new members this
session, were S. A. Thomas, White Sulphur, Ky.,
Samuel Allen and C. Ricketts, MidWay, Ky., E. O.
Hawkins, Todd county, Ky., Oscar Harrison, Cum-
berland county, Ky., T. Shirley, McKinney, Texas,
J. Winlock, Hiseville, Ky., and J. E. Leet, Sedalia,
Mo.

Looking forward to the 22nd of February, 1869,
W. B. Munson was pitched upon as their Repre~
sentative, but be having been appointed by the
College to represent it during the Commencement
week of the same year, tendered a reluctant resig-
nation, which was reeeived, and a second election
Was held November 27th, 1868, which resulted in
the selection of J. R. Dabney, of Cadiz, Ky., and J.
C. May, as alternate. Mr. Dabney’s subject for
oration was, John Hampden and his time, which

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was- delivered. The Ashland Institute pressed on-
ward, and with the Ad elphian Society gave a joint
exhibition June 8th, 1869, which was afterwards
reverted to as a precedent for their union; the pro-
gramme read: R. C, Mayo, Brownsboro, Ky., Pres~
ident of the Adelphian Society; D. M. Woodson,,
President of the Ashland Institute; C. H. Bell,
Georgetown, Mo., of the Adelphian, on oration, J.
C. May, Bloomﬁeld, Ky., of the Institute, on ora-
tion. Subject—What weowe to Heroes. Debate
—Is the United States on the decline? Afﬁrmative
forgotten. ‘Negative—J. E. Leet, Sedalia, Mo., of
the Institute. Brass Button—T. Shirley. Mar-
shals of the Institute—O. Harrison and S. A.
Thomas. From want of' proper accomodations, the
session of the A. & M. College of 1869-70 did not
attract back many of the senior students, but a
sufﬁcient number of members returned who formed
a neucleus, around which was gathered a band de—
termined, if possible, to retain the. well-earned
prestige of their Society. The f