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On the recordFebruary 12, 1851
Any benefit or privilege conferred by law or treaty on one must be common to all, and we are not at liberty, on a question of such vital interest and plain constitutional duty, to consider whether the particular case is one in which substantial inconvenience or injustice might ensue.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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