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Millard Fillmore: In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official intimation from the…

On the recordDecember 5, 1852
In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official intimation from the Government of Great Britain that orders had been given for the protection of the fisheries upon the coasts of the British provinces in North America against the alleged encroachments of the fishing vessels of the United States and France.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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