The Power for Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-61 by William Cullen Bryant alison mcghee a reminder of new possibilities

a reminder of new possibilities

“He alone is my rock and my salvation

known today as the chronometer

and I'm grateful he stays out in front of the pack issuing wisdom

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The Power for Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-61 by William Cullen Bryant alison mcghee a reminder of new possibilitiesAt his death in 1878 William Cullen Bryant had been, for fifty one years, the chief editor and a principal owner of the New York Evening Post. The paper had been started in 1801 by lawyer William Coleman in association with the Federalist political Alexander Hamilton. In 1826, Coleman hired Bryant as a reporter. Although Coleman may have engaged his services because of his growing distinction as a poet, Bryant was also by then an experienced writer of