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Millard Fillmore: Our grateful thanks are due to an all-merciful Providence, not only for staying the pestilence which in different forms…

On the recordDecember 5, 1852
Our grateful thanks are due to an all-merciful Providence, not only for staying the pestilence which in different forms has desolated some of our cities, but for crowning the labors of the husbandman with an abundant harvest and the nation generally with the blessings of peace and prosperity.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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