United States Magazine and Democratic Review
United States Magazine and Democratic Review ( 1837–49),monthly literary and political journal founded at Washington. Among its contributors were Whittier (Songs of Labor), Hawthorne (Legends of the Province House), Poe (Marginalia), Whitman (short stories), Bryant, Paulding, Simms, C.P. Cranch, and Epes Sargent. It was moved to New York (1841) and the following year absorbed Brownson's Boston Quarterly Review, becoming further devoted to politics and serving as the mouthpiece of exuberant nationalism. In an article (1845), John L. O'Sullivan, the founder and editor, coined the jingoistic phrase “manifest destiny.” The magazine merged with the United States Review (1846) and thereafter declined.
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