Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Stephen Cullen Carpenter in several Southern newspapers, stating that he was 78 years of age at his death resulting from the effects of paralysis suffered for six years. Stephen Cullen Carpenter Stephen Cullen Carpenter (1752–1830) was an author, reporter, editor and magazine founder, characterized as "a pro-English Irishman who fled to the colonies in 1802 compelled by a miscarriage," apparently referring to the loss of a military chest while he was deputy paymaster for the British Army in India. Born in 1752 in Ireland, Carpenter first worked in the journalism business in London as a reporter of Parliamentary proceedings. He also published two