Whittier, John G.; Whitman, Walt; et al. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series, Volume XVII. 1846. New York: J. L. O'Sullivan & O. C. Gardiner, 1846. First Edition. Six issues bound, July-December, 1846. [9414]
Full leather, outer hinges fine, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, spine dark with crazing & light surface loss, black leather title & volume no. labels in gilt. iv., 480 pp., tight, some foxing/smudges. With six engravings. Good. Leather bound.
The engravings are of Mr. Blair, of The Globe; Fac-Simile of Gen. Andrew Jackson's handwriting; Andrew Jackson in his Last Days; C. Johnson; John A. Dix; C. Cushing, Late Minister to China.
Contents include
Texas Annexation; Amateur Authors and Small Critics; Chalk-Marks, by Lincoln Ramble, Esq.; A Dialogue, by Walter Whitman; Education, by H. Norman Hudson; The Game of North America: its Nomenclature, Habits, Haunts, and Seasons; with Hints on the Science of Woodcraft. By Frank Forester; The Innocent Convict; Ode to Jackson, by Walter Savage Landor; Love's Emblems, by Park Benjamin; Life in the Prairie Land; A Legend of Westchester County, by John Quod; The Malthusian Theory: Discussed in the Correspondence between Alexander H. Everett and Professor George Tucker, of the University of Virginia; Revenge and Requital; a Tale of a Murderer Escaped, by Walter Whitman; Songs of Labor: The Shoemakers, The Fishermen, The Lumbermen. By John G. Whittier; Whittier in Prose; Wives and Slaves: A Bone for the Abolitionists to Pick; The Wandering Jew.
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was published from 1837 to 1859, it's motto "The best government is that which governs least" has been erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The ideals of Jefferson were promoted by the periodical, with its support of Jacksonian Democracy being built on that foundation. It was a counterpart to the North American Review, a Federalist/Whig periodical. It was outspoken in the topics of the Mexican War, slavery, states' rights, and Indian removal. It was in this periodical that the term "Manifest Destiny" was first used. It was edited by Jon L. O'Sullivan and Samuel D. Langtree. The volumes of this series are a brilliant presentation of literature and politics in the years before the American Civil War.
The Magazine promoted American writers, printing some of the earliest writings of such luminaries as Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. G. Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, H. W. Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell.
