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68 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER.
Messenger." It was for the last named
periodical that he wrote his humorous
"Letters of Moses Adams to Billy
Evans of Hurdsville," which, under
the guise of rustic simplicity, were
filled with witty and caustic hits at
people and events in Washington.
After John R. Thompson resigned
the editorial chair of the Southern
Literary Messenger, Dr. Bagby became
one of the associate editors and
continued in this position until 1864,
most of his best articles having been
published in that paper. In 1868 he
became editor of "The Native Virginian,"
published at Orange Court
House, and from that time on he did
a good deal of lecturing in a humorous
vein. His most famous lectures
were on "The Virginia Gentleman,"
"Bacon and Greens," and "The Disease
Called Love." He also delivered a lecture
on fools, the tickets for which
bore the following inscription: "Fools,
Admit One."
Although Dr. Bagby was known
chiefly as a humorist and writer of
dialect stories, still he did not confine
himself exclusively to this field, but
essayed others, with very good success.
He had, for instance, a vein of
poetry in his nature, as. his very good
poem, "The Empty Sleeve," will attest.
The fact of his having found
employment with a journal of so high
a standard of excellence as "The Atlantic
Monthly" suffices to show that
he possessed talent of no mediocre
order. Physically, he was a great sufferer,
so much so that it is astonishing
how he could have felt sufficiently
cheerful and mirthful to have played
the role of humorist. It was a, signal
instance of the triumph of mind
over matter. Fhysical suffering imparted
to his countenance a melancholy
cast at variance with the humorous
bent of his mind. One who
knew him well in private life says he
was peculiarly kind and gentle to
children, and that he was an ardent
lover of his native State. Thomas
Nelson Page says that his "Old Virginia
Gentleman" is the most beautiful
sketch of Southern life that has
ever been published."
Another of our prominent old
humorists was Joseph G. Baldwin,
author of "Flush Times in Alabama
and Mississippi." He was a native of
Virginia, but moved to Alabama,
where he practiced law, and from
there to California, where he died,
after becoming eminent in his profession.
He was a brilliant and origl
nal writer, with a delightful vein of
humor, strongly evinced in his book
on "Flush Times in Alabama and
Mississippi," dedicated to "The old
folks at home—the people of the
Valley of Virginia." This volume was
published in 1853, and, within a year
it had run into its seventh edition,
which was something very remarkable
and, indeed, I believe, unprecedented
in those days. In a short time the
characters of "Ovid Bolus, Esq.," and
[January,
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