Millard Fillmore, Constructive Statesman, Defender, of the Constitution, President, of the United States (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The problems that emerged in 1850 before the American people are, for the most part, awaiting solution in 1915, and it is to these that Millard Fillmore gave his chief attention and energies, as the facts of history set forth in this book will show.

So far from being the colorless man in American politics, which rivals and enemies, the ignorant and the copyists have made him, Millard Fillmore was a man of active mind and deep convictions. He helped mightily to bring in the modern world. He killed off one war and postponed for a decade the greatest. He sent a peaceful armada to Japan and introduced the Orient to America and the Occident. He was a zealous champion of a canal joining the Atlantic and the Pacific. He was a Union man when sectionalism was rampant and explosive. He stood for the whole country.

During his presidency, the economic map of the world was altered. He was strenuous in making the United States a world-power, and our politics cosmopolitan. His aid was potent in changing our relatively poor land to one of the richest of countries, when California's gold disturbed the economic equilibrium of the world.

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