The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842

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Whitman, Walt; Whittier, John G.; Lowell, J. R.; et al. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI. 1842. New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1842. First Edition. [7908]

Six issues bound, July-December, 1842. Full leather, 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches, spine dark with crazing & light surface loss, black leather title & volume no. labels in gilt. iv., 666 clean pp., tight, with 8 engravings or lithographs. Wrappers not included. Good. Leather bound.

Contents include

The Modern French Judicature.
Catlin's North American Indians (8 pp. review).
Andrew Jackson. By W. Wallace.
The Rhode Island Question.
Poetical Remains of the late Lucy Hooper.
The Whig Regime in Washington.
The Gypsies.
Do the Various Races of Mankind constitute a Single Species?
The Constitution - the Framers and the Framing
The Poets and Poetry of America. By Rufus Wilmot Griswold. (4 pp. review of this).
The Prince of Edom. By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.
White Slavery. 12 pp. An exposé of the treatment of paupers in England in response to English condemnations of black slavery in America.
Anecdotes of General Jackson. By Amos Kendall.
Follen. By John G. Whittier.
The Angel of Tears. By Walter Whitman. FIRST APPEARANCE.
Duelling.
Schmucker's Psychology. By O. A. Brownson.
Lines, on reading several Pamphlets by Clergymen against the Abolition of the Gallows. By J. G. Whittier.
Political Pamphleteering.
To the River Schuylkill. By Charles Perry.
An Incident in a Rail-Road Car. By J. R. Lowell.
Climatology of the United States.
American Names.
Brook Farm. By O. Q. Brownson.
The Forsaken. [unsigned, by William Gilmore Simms]
John Tyler.
Rambles in Yucatan.
Sonnet. On the Death of Channing. By Cornelius Mathews.
Synthetic Philosophy. By O. A. Brownson.
Raphael. By John G. Whittier.
Origin and Characteristics of the American Aborigines.
Political Satire and Satirists.
James Buchanan.
The Lost Church: From the German of Uhland. By Sarah H. Whitman.
Love's Penalty. By Sarah H. Whitman.
A Protest of Fourierism against the Democratic Review.
To a Mountain Torrent. By Mrs. C. M. Sawyer.

Full page steel engravings: Theodore Sedgwick, T. W. Dorr, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Senator Walker (tissue guard loose), President John Tyler, The House of the Caciques (lithograph), Zayi Ruins (lithograph), James Buchanan.

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.