New York Evening Post

City: New York

State: New York

Alexander Hamilton and other New York Federalists established the New York Post in 1801 in opposition to Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party. William Coleman was its first editor, serving until his death in July 1829. William Cullen Bryant replaced Coleman, and in 1832 Bryant became a part owner and editor-in chief, a position he retained for half a century. William Leggett and John Bigelow were also co-owners and editors in the antebellum period. Under Bryant's direction, the paper evolved from a Federalist mouthpiece to a staunch supporter first of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party and later, as Bryant's opposition to slavery grew, of the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party. Bryant became one of Abraham Lincoln's chief advocates, and during the Civil War Bryant and the Evening Post supported the Lincoln Administration against attacks from New York's Democratic newspapers, though urging greater aggressiveness and decisiveness against the Confederacy.

Allan Nevins, The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), passim.