6. WHAT A COMPROMISING SITUATION, MILLARD FILLMORE!
from ROCK THE WHIGS! (AND JAMES K. POLK) – by: THE ACADEMIC CHALLENGE TEAM

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE EVERYONE
WITH AN INSTITUTION AS PECULIAR AS THIS.
ENTER ONE MR. STEVEN DOUGLAS
WITH A COMPROMISE 1850.

ENFORCE THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
TAKE AWAY THE TRADE, BUT KEEP THE SLAVES.
ADMIT CALIFORNIA AS A FREE STATE.
A COMPROMISE 1850.
A COMPROMISE, NO ONE IS HAPPY.

Millard Fillmore:
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 14-YEARS-OLD
I WON A TURKEY RAFFLE AT A NEW YEAR'S DAY GATHERING.
NO PERSUASION COULD INDUCE ME TO RAFFLE AGAIN.
THAT WAS THE BEGINNING AND END
OF MY GAMBLING DAYS.
I HAVE NEVER SINCE GAMBLED
TO THE VALUE OF ONE CENT.

Benjamin Hungerford:
WELL I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE 14-YEARS-OLD;
YOU WORKED IN MY SHOP AND NEVER DID AS YOU WERE TOLD.
INSTEAD OF CHOPPING WOOD LIKE I HAD ASKED,
YOU THREATENED TO SPLIT MY SKULL WITH AN AXE.

Millard Fillmore :
MR. HUNGERFORD, I AM INCLINED TO THINK
THAT WAS UNJUSTIFIABLE REBELLION.
MY ONLY JUSTIFICATION IS THAT
I HAVE AN INBORN HATRED
FOR INJUSTICE AND TYRANNY
THAT I CANNOT REPRESS.

MRS. STOWE, GIVE US UNCLE TOM;
SHOW US WHY THIS IS ALL WRONG.
NO EVIL IS AS NECESSARY
AS A COMPROMISE ON SLAVERY.

A COMPROMISE 1850.
A COMPROMISE, MILLARD FILLMORE;
ONE THAT WILL LEAD TO CIVIL WAR.


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.		 MILLARD FILLMORE
13th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITES STATES
(9 JULY 1850 - 3 MARCH 1853)
POLITICAL PARTY: WHIG!
NICKNAME: "THE AMERICAN LOUIS PHILIPPE "
SIGNED THE MEASURES CREATED BY THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 INTO LAW. INSTALLED THE WHITE HOUSE'S FIRST LIBRARY, NOT IT'S FIRST BATHTUB (AS RUMORED). LAST PRESIDENT NOT TO BE A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
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