Benjamin Rush supported ending slavery prior to the Revolution, forming a Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Perhaps Dr. A proponent of public education for young women as well as men, Dr. But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament … Its doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society and the safety and well-being of civil government. This is the most essential part of education.
But let us not be wiser than our Maker. If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the Gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God. For this Divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.
There could not have been a more happy emblem. I am neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power … will always fail of producing order and happiness in the hands of man. HE alone who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him. I know of no Character living or dead who has done more real good in America. Memorials to Dr. Changing paths quickly, however, he moved to Philadelphia and began training as a physician.
Here he came under the influence of the leading minds in the medical field, such as John Redman and William Shippen Jr. Redman saw potential in Rush and urged him to go to Scotland, a hive of developing medical knowledge, and Rush went on to earn his M.
His subsequent travels across Europe brought Benjamin Franklin to his acquaintance, and the two men would remain lifelong friends. In , when Rush returned to Philadelphia, he opened his medical practice and was appointed as chair of chemistry in the medical department of the College of Philadelphia, making him the first professor of chemistry in America, at the young age of Rush also kept busy outside of medicine, publishing a tract on the evils of the enslaved people trade and helping organize the first anti-slavery society in America, the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
Rush also became active in the colonies' struggle for independence and was a major influence on Thomas Paine in the writing of his classic text on American independence, Common Sense. Rush officially went down in U. After the war, Rush returned to his medical practice and taught at the University of Pennsylvania. In all, Rush is said to have taught 3, medical students, doctors who went on to establish the medical profession in the United States. In , he also chartered the first college in the newly formed United States, Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Rush is also known for his efforts to reform care given to the mentally ill, and he eschewed many primitive contemporary "treatments" in favor of careful clinical observation and study. The most important of these had a delegate from each state, which meant that Bartlett served on all of them, including those of safety, secrecy, munitions, marine, and civil government.
Matthew Thornton were added to the delegation in Philadelphia in As the first to vote for independence from Britain on July 2, , it is said that Dr. Bartlett also served in as one of the original drafters of the Articles of Confederation precursor to the U. While on leave from Congress in and serving in the General Court, Dr. Stark won his coveted promotion to brigadier general and recommission in the Continental Army by Congress later that year.
Bartlett returned to Congress in mid-November casting the first vote for the Articles of Confederation. And again, he was the first to sign the Articles on July 9, which was to be one of his last actions in Congress. Returning to New Hampshire, Dr. Bartlett had a significant hand in the drafting and adoption of the New Hampshire Constitution of Ratified by eight other states and requiring nine, the U.
Constitution was officially rendered operative on June 21, by a vote of in the Old North Meeting House of Concord. As such, New Hampshire was admitted as the ninth state of the United States of America — handing George Washington and Alexander Hamilton their victory for a federalist model of government that we know today.
Bartlett was overwhelmingly elected President of New Hampshire in Three of his children and seven of his grandchildren followed in his medical footsteps and became physicians. The portraits of Dr.
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