Patriot Echoes – Teaching 250 years of patriot courage.
- March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
- March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
- March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
The Labor Question
"Even today, amid these whirls, indeed flippancy, and blind fury of infidelity, entire lack of first-class captains and leaders, added to the plentiful meanness and vulgarity of the ostensible massesthe problem, the labor question, beginning to open like a yawning gulf, rapidly widening every yearwhat prospect have we? "
Journal Entry (c.1850)