Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
James Finlay Weir Johnston

Born: September 13, 1796
Died: September 18, 1855 (aged 59)
Bio: James Finlay Weir Johnston, FRS FRSE was a Scottish agricultural chemist and mineralogist.