Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Lowell, J. R.; Whittier, J. G. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XIII. 1843. New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1843. First Edition. [7907]
Six issues bound, July-December, 1843. 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. 672 clean pp., tight, with 8 engravings. Wrappers not included. Good. Leather bound.
Contents include
The Sandwich Islands.
The Present State of Society. By O. A. Brownson. 21 pp.
Remarks on American Art. By Horatio Greenough.
The Medical Philosophy of Travelling.
The Two Widows. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The News Boy. By Joseph C. Neal, with Illustrations by Darley.
The Irish Repeal Question.
On the Origin and Source of Government. By Orestes A. Brownson.
Prometheus. By J. R. Lowell.
Hampton Beach. By J. G. Whittier.
Roger Malvin's Burial. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
American Architecture. By Horatio Greenough.
A Glance Behind the Curtain. By J. R. Lowell.
New England Supernaturalism. By J. G. Whittier.
Mr. Channing's Poems.
Twilight Musings. By H. T. Tuckerman.
The Dying Sycamores. By Miss Anne C. Lynch.
The Baltimore Convention.
Change for Mr. Dickens's American Notes.
Sonnet. By H. T. Tuckerman.
Victor Hugo's Orientales.
The New Wife and the Old. By J. G. Whittier.
The Landlord. By Henry David Thoreau.
The Fatherland. By J. R. Lowell.
The Ruin. [unsigned, by William Gilmore Simms]
Thoughts in a Library. By Miss Anne C. Lynch.
Constitutional Reform.
Fleets versus Forts.
Thoughts at Sunset. By L. Leslie.
The Indian Summer. By Henry T. Tuckerman.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Lines on the Death of an Infant. By Miss Anne C. Lynch.
A Caution to Lovers. By William Ellery Channing.
Fire-Worship. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Tales of the Prairie. By L. Leslie.
The Betrayed. By George H. Colton.
Full page engravings: Thomas H. Benton, The News Boy, William R. King, Corner Loungers, William Allen of Ohio, Washington Allston, The Card Players, A. Mouton.
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.