Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
William Tappan Thompson
Born: August 31, 1812
Died: March 24, 1882 (aged 69)
Bio: William Tappan Thompson was an American writer who co-founded the Savannah Morning News in the 1850s, known then as the Daily Morning News. One of his most notable works was Major Jones's Courtship, an epistolary novel.