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.
Jonathan M. Sewall

Born: 1748
Died: March 29, 1808 (aged 60)
Bio: Jonathan Mitchell Sewall was a lawyer and poet who achieved some notability, published as Jonathan M. Sewall.