American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Sir James Young Simpson (June 7, 1811-May 6, 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician. He pioneered modern anesthesiology through his discovery of "Chloroform," 1847. He stated that his research was inspired by the "deep sleep" that Adam was put into. Sir James Young Simpson, considered a chief founder of the medical field of gynecology, served as Professor of Obstetric Medicine at Edinburgh University. He invented the Simpson forceps, introduced iron wire sutures, and acupressure. His writings on medical history, fetal pathology and hermaphroditism are highly regarded. James Simpson declared his greatest discovery was: <That I have a Saviour!> 1811JS001 A gospel...

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811-November 29, 1872) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician. He made famous the phrase, "Go West, Young Man!" Horace Greeley founded and edited the New York Tribune daily paper and The New Yorker magazine. Called by the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, "our later Franklin," Greeley's strong anti-slavery editorials helped to stir the North to oppose slavery. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and used his influence to secure the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency. In his Autobiography, Horace Greeley wrote: <It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave...

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811-March 11, 1874) was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for 23 years, 1851-74. He was strongly opposed to slavery and was persecuted for taking that unpopular stand. So firm was his conviction against slavery, that he was once physically assaulted on the floor of the House by Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina, receiving injuries from which he never fully recovered. As one of the founders of the Republican Party, Charles Sumner declared: <Familiarity with that great story of redemption, when God raised up the slave-born Moses to deliver His chosen people from bondage, and...

New York Supreme Court (1811) in the case of the People v. Ruggles, 8 Johns 545-547, Chief Justice Chancellor Kent rendered: <The defendant was indicted...in December, 1810, for that he did, on the 2nd day of September, 1810...wickedly, maliciously, and blasphemously, utter, and with a loud voice publish, in the presence and hearing of divers good and Christian people, of and concerning the Christian religion, and of and concerning Jesus Christ, the false, scandalous, malicious, wicked and blasphemous words following: "Jesus Christ was a bastard, and his mother must be a whore," in contempt of the Christian religion...the defendant was tried...

Virginia (1810) a census of Virginia's eastern shore identified <one hundred and thirty-one free black males living in Northampton County, slaves freed by Quaker convert Ann Brickhouse.> 1810VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes:. 1810VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1810, a census of Virginia's eastern shore identified 131 free black males living in Northampton County, slaves freed by Quaker convert Ann Brickhouse.