1839 US Magazine & Democratic Review Vol V Jan-June Hawthorne W.C. Bryant Poetry

Description: Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Lowell, J. R.; et al. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series, Volume V. 1839. Washington DC: Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1839. First Edition. Six issues bound, January-June, 1839. Front cover is absent, otherwise complete. Contents include The New York Election; The Canada Question; Benjamin F. Butler; The Future Life, by William Cullen Bryant; Tales of the Province-House, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Esq.; The Trials of Woman; Channing on "Self-Culture"; Tadmor of the Wilderness; Early American Travels: Father Hennepin; Revolutionary Reminiscences of an Old Soldier; Original of the National Melody, "Yankee Doodle," by Porson Junior; Madison, and the Madison Papers; Glances at Congress; Western Virginia; Public Currency; The Twenty-fifth Congress; The Sun of the Constitution; The Fountain, by William Cullen Bryant; Sonnet - Andrew Jackson' America and the Early English Poets; Ode: For the Fiftieth Anniversary of Washington's Inauguration, by William Cullen Bryant; Recent American Poetry; Song to Alice; Index. Poetry by William Cullen Bryant, No. IV - Tales of the Province House by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Address by William E Channing, Revolutionary Reminiscences of an Old Soldier, Yankee Doodle by Porson Junior, Benjamin Franklin Butler Copper Etching and much more. Foxing throughout. Any questions just ask. Will ship with extra care. GB --- The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a periodical published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan. Its motto, "The best government is that which governs least", was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in "Resistance to Civil Government", better known as Civil Disobedience,and is often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson. History In 1837, O'Sullivan co-founded and served as editor for The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (generally called the Democratic Review). It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy, a movement which had usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review. The magazine featured political essays, many of them penned by O'Sullivan himself, extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported the losing effort of Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, and in the 1844 election, James K. Polk, the eventual winner. As a leading organizer for the Democratic Party, Van Buren paid close attention to party communication media such as newspapers and magazines. They received subsidies in the form of government printing contracts. At an intellectual level, his administration was strongly supported by The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Its editorials and articles provided the arguments that partisan needed to discuss Democratic Party positions on the Mexican War, slavery, states' rights, and Indian removal. The Democratic Review was also (perhaps even primarily) a literary magazine, promoting the development of American literature. Some of its regular contributors were Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth F. Ellet, and John Greenleaf Whittier, with occasional contributions by William Cullen Bryant, Fanny Kemble, and James Fenimore Cooper. The Review also published some of the early work of Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, and Henry David Thoreau. Hawthorne and O'Sullivan became close friends, and Hawthorne had more pieces published in O'Sullivan's magazine than in any other periodical. The Democratic Review was always in financial difficulties since it accepted no advertising and relied on subscriptions and donations to survive. O'Sullivan relinquished his editorial duties for a short time to practice law but continued to write for the magazine. The magazine is also responsible for coining the term "manifest destiny", referring to the combination of rapid growth of civilization and open space to grow in North America.

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