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Millard Fillmore: “Any benefit or privilege conferred by law or treaty on one must be common to all, and we are not at liberty, on a…”

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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