Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Harriet Winslow Sewall

Born: June 20, 1819
Died: December 20, 1889 (aged 70)
Bio: Harriet Winslow Sewall was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.