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Millard Fillmore: “Nothing could be more unexpected than that such a gross violation of law, such a high-handed contempt of the authority…”

On the recordFebruary 18, 1851
Nothing could be more unexpected than that such a gross violation of law, such a high-handed contempt of the authority of the United States, should be perpetrated by a band of lawless confederates at noonday in the city of Boston, and in the very temple of justice.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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