Leggett's espoused a fierce opposition to central banking and support for the organization of labor unions. There, in addition to literary and drama reviews, Leggett began to write political editorials. In the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write for the paper. So well respected was the Evening Post under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in 1864. The most famous 19th-century Evening Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. William Cullen Bryant is the Post 's most famous 19th-century editor.
