American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New York Supreme Court (1861) Lindenmuller v. The People, 33 Barbour Reports, 548, 561: <The decision of the New York Supreme Court, written by Justice William F. Allen, was adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1877 and cited by Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer in his 1905 lecture, "The United States a Christian Nation".) The plaintiff wanted to restrain New York City police from interfering with theatrical performances on Sunday, claiming that "the Bible, and religion with all its ordinances, including the Sabbath, are as effectually abolished by the Constitution as they were in France during the...

William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861-June 8, 1929) was a preeminent lyric poet of Canada. A distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became well-known as a magazine writer. He was the editor of the New York Independent, editor of the Oxford Book of American Verse, 1927; and contributed verse to the Harvard Monthly. His first volume, Low Tide on Grand Pre, published in 1893, followed by the books of verse: Songs of Vagabondia, 1894-6, 1901; A Winter Holiday; Pipes of Pan; and Ballads of Lost Haven. In his work, Vestigia, William Bliss Carman wrote: <I took a day to search...

Alfred North Whitehead (February 15, 1861-December 30, 1947) was a British philosopher and mathematician. He was appointed to teach at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1910; University College, London, 1911; professor of applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1914; and professor of philosophy at Harvard University, 1924. His works include: Principia Mathematica 1910-13; Principles of Natural Knowledge 1919; and The Concept of Nature. In Science and the Modern World, 1925, chapter 12, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: <The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash...

Kansas (January 29, 1861) was the 34th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Kansas, adopted 1859, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges...establish this Constitution.> 1861KS001 <Bill of Rights, Section 7. The right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed.> 1861KS002 <Article I, Section VII. Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the legislature to make suitable provision...for the encouragement of schools and the means of instruction.> 1861KS003 -- American Quotations...

Virginia (1860) census of Virginia revealed: <963 free Negro residents.> 1860VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1860VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1860, Census.