Millard Fillmore actually said...

I do especially direct that prosecutions be commenced against all persons who shall have made themselves alders or abettors in or to this flagitious offense

Context

Proclamation 56—Calling On Citizens to Assist in the Recapture of a Fugitive Slave Arrested in Boston, Massachusetts

02/17/1851

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