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Right for Once

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  • Title: Right for Once
  • Date: 17 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00957
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 17 February 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Right for Once." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00957.xml (TEI)
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RIGHT FOR ONCE.—

The Herald1 of this morning has, strange to say, the magnanimity to declare that “William C. Bryant,2 a man distinguished in the walks of literature,” ought to have been elected a Regent of University. That is so. Bryant is one of the most loveable characters in the country. The Republican party—or rather its managers—is not disposed to do justice to its best men. We have observed the evidences of its neglect and ingratitude over and over again.

Notes:

1. The New York Herald was one of the leading New York City papers during Whitman’s lifetime. It was run by James Gordon Bennett, Sr., and his son and leaned Democrat, while loudly proclaiming its political independence. It was published from 1835 to 1924. See also The New York Herald (Poems in Periodicals)." [back]

2. William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet best known for his poem "Thanatopsis." He was also the editor of the New-York Evening Post. For more information, see Andrew C. Higgins, "Bryant, William Cullen (1794#8211;1878)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]

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