Edward Rutledge, brother of the preceding, was Governor of South Carolina during the last two years of his life.

The Pinckneys were an old English family who emigrated to Charleston in 1687.  Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and his brother Thomas were both active participants in the Revolution.  The former was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States, in 1800.

Thomas was elected governor of South Carolina in 1789.  In the war of 1812 he served as major-general.

Charles Pinckney, a second cousin of the two already mentioned, was four times elected governor of his state.

LXXII.  THE CHURCH SCENE FROM EVANGELINE. (262)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, the son of Hon. Stephen Longfellow, an eminent lawyer of Portland, Maine, was born in that city.  He graduated, at the age of eighteen, at Bowdoin College.  He was soon appointed to the chair of Modern Languages and Literature in that institution, and, to fit himself further for his work, he went abroad and spent four years in Europe.  He remained at Bowdoin till 1835, when he was appointed to the chair of Modern Languages and Belles-lettres in Harvard University.  On receiving this appointment, he again went to Europe and remained two years.  He resigned his professorship in 1854, and after that time resided in Cambridge, pursuing his literary labors and giving to the public, from time to time, the fruits of his pen.  In 1868 he made a voyage to England, where he was received with extraordinary marks of honor and esteem.  In addition to Mr. Longfellow’s original works, both in poetry and in prose, he distinguished himself by several translations; the most famous is that of the works of Dante.

Mr. Longfellow’s poetry is always elegant and chaste, showing in every line traces of his careful scholarship.  Yet it is not above the popular taste or comprehension, as is shown by the numerous and varied editions of his poems.  Many of his poems treat of historical themes; “Evangeline,” from which the following selection is taken, is esteemed by many as the most beautiful of all his longer poems; it was first published in 1847. ###

So passed the morning away.  And lo! with a summons sonorous
Sounded the bell from its tower, and over the meadows a drumbeat. 
Thronged erelong was the church with men.  Without, in the churchyard,
Awaited the women.  They stood by the graves, and hung on the headstones
Garlands of autumn leaves and evergreens fresh from the forest. 
Then came the guard from the ships, and marching proudly among them
Entered the sacred portal.  With loud and dissonant clangor
Echoed the sound of their brazen drums from ceiling and casement,—­
Echoed a moment only, and slowly the ponderous portal
Closed, and in silence the crowd awaited the will of the soldiers.