This week explain how you see America's growing conscience in either "Letter to Martin Van Buren" or "A Psalm of Life." How does the speaker in Longfellow's poem echo sentiments that are also presen

This week explain how you see America's growing conscience in either "Letter to Martin Van Buren" or  "A Psalm of Life."  How does the speaker in Longfellow's poem echo sentiments that are also present in Emerson's letter? coming from book The Norton Anthology of American Literature – Beginnings to 1865 (shorter ninth edition)