Possible Clues:

• 'The Crisis' essayist
• Addison colleague
• Shelby who wrote 'The Content of Our Character'
• Republican National Committee chairman Michael
• English essayist Sir Richard
• 'Remington ___' of 1980s TV
• The Tatler founder, 1709
• 'The Christian Hero' author, 1701
• Essayist belonging to a chaste electorate
• Michael of the G.O.P.