American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Boston Gazette (September 1768) carried an article which read: <If an army should be sent to reduce us to slavery, we will put our lives in our hands and cry to the Judge of all the earth....Behold, how they come to cast us out of this possession which Thou hast given us to inherit. Help us, Lord, our God, for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude.> 1768BG001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1768BG001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Boston Gazette....

Francois Rene' de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768-July 4, 1848) was a French politician and writer. He helped begin the literary style known as Romanticism, which emphasized man's emotion in a rather flowery style. A young captain in the French military, he became disillusioned at the violence of the French Revolution and came to America in 1791. His fascination with the Southern States became the subject of his novels, Les Natchez (1826), Atala (1801) and René (1802). He returned to France in 1792 and fought for Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé. Wounded and left for dead at the siege of...

Elizabeth Ka'ahumanu (March 17, 1768-June 5, 1832) was wife of King Kamehameha the Great of Hawaii (c.1738-1819). She served as queen regent-prime minister (kahina nui) after her husband's death in 1819. Queen Ka'ahumanu, along with the son of King Kamehameha, Liholiho (1797-1824), commanded the cessation of the social taboos, idolatry and human sacrifice, known as kapu, that had controlled Hawaii for centuries. Their edict, issued in 1819, went out to all the islands, causing the destruction of numerous idols and temples (heiaus). The following year, Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and a group of Protestant missionaries came to Hawaii on the brig,...

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767-February 23, 1848) was the 6th President of the United States, 1825-29, and one of the few Presidents to re-enter politics after his Presidential term. He was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1830-48, being nicknamed "The Hell-Hound of Slavery," as he singlehandedly led the fight to lift the Gag Rule which had prohibited discussion of slavery on the floor of Congress. He served as Secretary of State for James Monroe, 1817-25, where he promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, 1823, and obtained Florida from Spain, 1819; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1815-17, where he negotiated the Treaty...

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767-June 8, 1845) was the 7th President of the United States, 1829-37; U.S. Senator, 1823-25; Governor of Florida Territory, 1821; U.S. Army Major General, 1814-21, where he became famous for winning the Battle of New Orleans, 1815, and the Seminole War, 1818; Major General of Tennessee Militia, 1802-12; Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, 1798-1804; U.S Senator, 1797-98; U.S. Representative, 1796-97; credited with proposing the name "Tennessee" at the State's first convention, 1796; married Rachel Donelson Robards, 1791; Judge advocate of Davidson County Militia, 1791; Attorney General of Western District of North Carolina, 1790; admitted to bar, 1787;...