Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . uth felt the inadequacy of allmeasures of transient conciliation. The popula-tion 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
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . uth felt the inadequacy of allmeasures of transient conciliation. The popula-tion 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 4tli of March,1853, he, having served 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 any 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, 1874. I. FRANKLIN PIERCE. rRANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth Presi-r^ dent of the United States, was bom in Hills-I horongh, N. H., November 23, 1804. 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, jFranklin, who was the sixth of eight children, jwas a remarkably bright and handsome boy,generous, warm-hearted and brave. He won ,alike the love of old and young. The boys onthe play-ground loved him. His teachers loved him. The neighbors looked upon him with pride ;and affection. He was by i
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