. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . th felt the inadequacy of allmeasures of transient conciliation. The ])opula-tiou of the free States was so rapidly increasingover that of the slave States, that it was inevitablethat the power of the Government should soonpass into the hands of the free States. The fa-mous compromise measures were adopted underMr. Fillmores administration, and the Japan ex-pedition was sent out. On the 4th of March,1853, he, having ser\-ed one term, retired. In 1856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for thePresidency by the Know-Nothing
. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . th felt the inadequacy of allmeasures of transient conciliation. The ])opula-tiou of the free States was so rapidly increasingover that of the slave States, that it was inevitablethat the power of the Government should soonpass into the hands of the free States. The fa-mous compromise measures were adopted underMr. Fillmores administration, and the Japan ex-pedition was sent out. On the 4th of March,1853, he, having ser\-ed one term, retired. In 1856, Mr. Fillmore was nominated for thePresidency by the Know-Nothing party, butwas beaten by Mr. Buchanan. After that lived in retirement. During the terri-ble conflict of civil war, he was mostly silent. Itwas generally .supposed that his sympathies wererather with those who were endeavoring to over-throw our institutions. President Fillmore keptaloof from the conflict, without anj- cordial wordsof cheer to one party or the other. He was thusforgotten by both. He lived to a ripe old age,and died in Buffalo, N. Y., March 8, FRANKLIN IlERCE. FRANKLIN PIERCE. |~RANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteeuth Presi-}m dent of the United States, was born in Hills-I * borough, N. H., November 23, 1S04. Hisfather was a Revolutionary soldier, who with hisown strong arm hewed out a home in the wilder-ness. He was a man of inflexible integrity, ofstrong, though uncultivated, mind, and was an un-compromising Democrat. The mother of Frank-lin Pierce was all that a son could desire—an in-telligent, prudent, affectionate. Christian woman. Franklin, who was the sixth of eight children,was a remarkably bright and handsome bo}-,generous, warm-hearted and brave. He wonalike the love of old and young. The boys onthe play-ground loved him. His teachers lovedhim. The neighbors looked upon him with prideand affection. He was by instinct a gentleman,always speaking kind words, and doing kinddeeds, with a peculiar, unstudied tact whichtaught him what was agreeable
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