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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: letters of William Cullen Bryant
    part number: Volume IV, 1858-1864
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Personal correspondence.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: The years just before and during the Civil War marked the high point of Bryant's influence on public affairs, which had grown steadily since the Evening Post had upheld the democratic Jacksonian revolution of the 1830s. A founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848 and the Republican Party in 1856, Bryant was lauded in 1857 by Virginia anti-slavery leader John Curtis Underwood, who wrote to Eli Thayer, "What a glory it would be to our country if it could elect this man to the Presidency-the country not he would be honored & elevated by such an event."In 1860 Bryant helped secure the Presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln, and was instrumental in the choice of two key members of his cabinet, Salmon Chase as Secretary of the Treasury, and Gideon Welles as Secretary of the Navy. During disheartening delays and defeats in the early war years, direct communications from Union field commanders empowered his editorial admonitions to such a degree that the conductor of a national magazine concluded that the Evening Post's "clear and able political leaders have been of more service to the government of this war than some of its armies."Bryant's correspondence with statesmen further reflects the immediacy of his concern with military and political decisions. There are thirty-five known letters to Lincoln, and thirty-two to Chase, Welles, war secretary Stanton, and Senators Fessenden, Morgan, and Sumner.This seven-year passage in Bryant's life, beginning with his wife's critical illness at Naples in 1858, concludes with a unique testimonial for his seventieth birthday in November 1864. The country's leading artists and writers entertained him at a "Festival" in New York's Century Club, giving him a portfolio of pictures by forty-six painters as a token of the "sympathy" he had "ever manifested toward the Artists," and the "high rank" he had "ever accorded to art." Poets Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier saluted him in prose and verse. Emerson saw him as "a true…
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Key to Manuscript Sources Often Cited in Footnotes -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Bryant Chronology 1858-1864 -- Bryant's Correspondents 1858-1864 -- XIX. Life's Dim Border 1858 -- XX. The Impending Crisis 1858-1859 -- XXI. The Cloud on the Way 1860 -- XXII. Not Yet! 1861 -- XXIII. From Roanoke Island to Chattanooga 1862-1863 -- XXIV. His Noblest Strain 1864 -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Index of Recipients. Volume IV -- Index
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bryant, William Cullen
      name part: 1794-1878
    genre: Correspondence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bryant, William Cullen
      name part: 1794-1878
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
  classification: PS1181 .A4 2020eb
  classification: 811/.3
  identifier: 0823287297
  identifier: 9780823287291
  identifier: 0585165033
  identifier: 9780585165035
  identifier: 22573/ctvjk32kj JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvjk2xps
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191204
    record change date: 20220105170635.0
    record identifier: in00004374147
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng