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Show . , . Just History By Albert F. Philips j Seventy-three year, ado today the thirteenth president of tha United State, waa inaugurated, Millard Fillmore, who signed tho proclamation proclama-tion and act of congress which In September following hla Inauguration Inaugura-tion created the territory of Utah. Tha county of Millard, created on February S, 162. and tha city of Fillmore, designated aa tba county seat town, where tha flrat poet-office poet-office In tha county waa eetabllehed, and which on October 2. 151. was selected and designated aa the capital capi-tal city of the state, and where the first atata rapltol building waa erected, and which atlll stands, waa named after Fillmore. Preeldent Fillmore waa tha second vice president to succeed to tha presidency. Tyler succeeded Harrison, Harri-son, the latter only serving ana month after his Inauguration, and Fillmore succeeding Taylor, who died July t, HU. 1 "resident. Tyler. Polk and Pierce died on Friday. Eight of the prasldsnts were Vlr-glnlana Vlr-glnlana by blrtb. Fillmore was opposed by a hostile congress. He waa a Whig. It was hla wish that tha oath of office be admlnlatered In the elmpleet form. Many of the measures which he desired enacted Into law met with defeat In congreea and many of which It la aald he did not wholly approve when presented him for ratification rat-ification he signed, declaring that It waa his duty to the majority and hla oath of office, and It waa this that caused him to eign tha fugitive elave law. which coat him the support sup-port ef his own party. Tha law ds-stroyed ds-stroyed all safeguards of freedom for every black man In every state of the Union, even the safeguarde of a thief were denied him. aa waa a trial by Jury. It waa the passage of thla law that oauaed the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to ba written by Harriet Beecher Btowe which was read everywhere In civilised countrlea and which produced an extraordinary effect upon the public. The "compromise- of 1W waa the following lawa: Tha admission of California as a free state: the organisation or-ganisation of New Mexico and BUI Into terrltoriea without mention of elavery: tha payment of IIO.OOOOOO to Texas: the fugitive elave law. and prohibitions tha buying a,nd Telling of slaves In tha pietrtct or Columbia. .During tha admin stra-tlon stra-tlon of Fillmore It waa filled almost entirely with the adltatlon to which eUwery gave rise. Mobs la Boston rescued from tha officers a slave named Bhadrech the Jerry rescue In Syracuse, another, both of which attracted the attention of tho world, while ths -underground wa. conetantly at work. F;l" Fillmore died on March i. ' few day. after hi. partner and llfe-toTg llfe-toTg f7l.no. Judge Hall. were burled elde by side In Forest Lawn ce-notsry. Buffalo. N. T. |