American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810-February 12, 1886) was Governor of New York, 1853-55, and the War Governor of New York during the Civil War, 1863-65. Horatio Seymour, who was instrumental in gaining government sanction for the building of Erie Canal, was also the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1868. On July 4, 1876, Horatio Seymour gave an oration titled, The Future of the Human Race, delivered at Rome, New York. In it, he declared: <He who studies with care the jurisprudence of the Old Testament will see that this feeling of reverence for forefathers and devotion to country is made the...

Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810-January 16, 1876) was an American clergyman. He ministered in Wayland, Massachusetts, 1848- 66; and in Weston, Massachusetts, 1866-76. In 1850, Edmund Hamilton Sears wrote The Angel's Song: <It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: "Peace on earth, good will to men From heav'n's all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.> 1810ES001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1810ES001. William...

Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810-July 20, 1903) whose given name was Gioacchino Pecci, stated in his encyclical on the condition of labor, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891: <Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.> 1810PL001 On June 7, 1827, in a Proclamation regarding Pope Leo XII (1760- 1829), President John Quincy Adams stated: <Whereas satisfactory evidence was given to the President of the United States on the 30th day of May last by Count Lucchesi, consul-general of His Holiness the Pope, that all foreign and discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the...

Jeremiah Sullivan Black (January 10, 1810-August 19, 1883) was the U.S. Secretary of State, 1860-61, and U.S. Attorney General under President James Buchanan, 1857-60. He was the president of the Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania, 1842-51; State Supreme Court Justice, 1852- 57; and U.S. Supreme Court Reporter, 1861-64. He wrote in the North American Review, August of 1881: <As a matter of fact, Jesus Christ died that sinners might be reconciled to God, and in that sense He died for them; that is, to furnish them with the means of averting Divine justice, which their crimes had provoked. A...

Benjamin Franklin Morris (1810-1867) was an American historian. He wrote many insightful works, including: Memorial Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, 1865; The Life of Thomas Morris-Pioneer and Long a Legislator of Ohio, and U.S. Senator from 1833 to 1839, 1856; Historical Sketch of Rising Sun, Indiana, and the Presbyterian Church-A Fortieth Anniversary Discourse, delivered Sept. 15, 1856, 1858; and The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States-developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the Republic, in 1864, in which he expounded: <These fundamental objects of the Constitution are in perfect harmony...