LEADER 04514oam 22006734a 450 001 9910367645803321 005 20210915045639.0 010 $a0-8232-8729-7 010 $a0-585-16503-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823287291 035 $a(CKB)111004368657356 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12009567 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184465 035 $a(PQKB)10922377 035 $a(DE-B1597)554991 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823287291 035 $a(OCoLC)1129400038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987160 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5987160 035 $a(OCoLC)1138624568 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82375 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368657356 100 $a20751212g19751992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Letters of William Cullen Bryant$eVolume IV, 1858?1864 /$fedited by William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d1975-1992. 210 4$dİ1975-1992. 215 $a1 online resource (450 p.) $c9 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-0994-6 327 $aV. 1. 1809-1836 -- v. 2. 1836-1849 -- v. 3. 1849-1857 -- v. 4. 1858-1864 -- v. 5. 1865-1871 -- v. 6. 1872-1878. 330 $aThe 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 painter of the face of this country"; Holmes, as the "first sweet singer in the cage of our close-woven life." To Whittier, his personal and public life sounded "his noblest strain." And in the darkest hours of the war, said Lowell, he had "remanned ourselves in his own manhood's store," had become "himself our bravest crown." 606 $aBriefsammlung$2gnd 606 $aPoets, American$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01067794 606 $aPoets, American$y19th century$vCorrespondence 608 $aPersonal correspondence. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aHenry Wadsworth Longfellow. 610 $aJohn Greenleaf Whittier. 615 0$aBriefsammlung 615 0$aPoets, American. 615 0$aPoets, American 676 $a811/.3 700 $aBryant$b William Cullen$f1794-1878.$0196361 701 $aVoss$b Thomas G$01022090 701 $aBryant$b William Cullen$f1908-1999.$01022091 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367645803321 996 $aThe Letters of William Cullen Bryant$92427592 997 $aUNINA