It's so difficult to judge 19th Century men by 21st Century standards. It was a different world that lived in different conditions and by different rules. Fillmore certainly was no visionary and seemed to be a mediocre president, a man of his time, probably no better no worse. I do hope that these re-evaluations of historical figures eventually start to take these factors into account. The same barbarity we accuse people of other eras living in will be the same barbarity we'll likely be accused of in future times (23rd Century scholars: What? People in the 2000s ate whole ANIMALS before lab grown meat? They used FOSSIL FUELS? Look at the developing world sweatshops! Look at all that plastic and those gas guzzling cars! Disgusting! etc.).
Fillmore was at least, open to compromise. Having been sitting in the senate during the pre-compromise debates (to put it mildly) he had a first-hand look at where the country might have been heading. Taylor was only interested in bringing in California and likely would not have been interested in any compromise. When he died and Fillmore took over there was at least a better shot at compromise. The best thing the compromise did was buy ten more years of industrial, population, and railroad growth in the northern section; those higher numbers provided a bit of a leg up on the logistics of the eventual war.
I'd like to add that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was really more "window dressing" than anything else. Namely-even after it became law-if those who had fled North via the Underground Railroad could prove their having resided on free soil for 7 years, then their masters down South would lose all ownership of them. It was actually the Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sanford, who flung America into disarray. Namely, the chief justice of the United States, Roger Taney, wrote for the majority that statutes of limitations did not apply to "the least-favored race," and thus escaped slaves had to live in fear of repatriation until they died. This led to John Brown's ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, which in turn catalyzed the outbreak of the Civil War.
The people who support cancel culture of these northern leaders are the same ones who blindly support the current medicine rules. The corollary is when the gov. is very harsh in sentencing of certain types of individual crimes (getting sentenced 200 years for managing a lady in the oldest pro), when it’s actually institutionalizing the same crime on a much larger scale and to a massive societal detriment. This gaslighting serves two purposes: 1 eliminates competition and 2 provides an effective smokescreen based on cognitive dissonance and plausible deniability. Knowing this will help you to anticipate some very absurd things coming. For example, if they are cancelling slavery promoters from the 1700s, guess what’s going to be institutionalized in a highly disguised form? You got it, slavery. This will probably occur via the complete digitalization of currency, medical record, and identify records. Your entire existence will literally be cancelled from being able to buy or sell, get medical treatment , or leave the country Etc by a federal contractor (ie, alphabet), for opinions you wrote online that go against the objectives.
It's so difficult to judge 19th Century men by 21st Century standards. It was a different world that lived in different conditions and by different rules. Fillmore certainly was no visionary and seemed to be a mediocre president, a man of his time, probably no better no worse. I do hope that these re-evaluations of historical figures eventually start to take these factors into account. The same barbarity we accuse people of other eras living in will be the same barbarity we'll likely be accused of in future times (23rd Century scholars: What? People in the 2000s ate whole ANIMALS before lab grown meat? They used FOSSIL FUELS? Look at the developing world sweatshops! Look at all that plastic and those gas guzzling cars! Disgusting! etc.).
I love this perspective.
Fillmore was at least, open to compromise. Having been sitting in the senate during the pre-compromise debates (to put it mildly) he had a first-hand look at where the country might have been heading. Taylor was only interested in bringing in California and likely would not have been interested in any compromise. When he died and Fillmore took over there was at least a better shot at compromise. The best thing the compromise did was buy ten more years of industrial, population, and railroad growth in the northern section; those higher numbers provided a bit of a leg up on the logistics of the eventual war.
good job
I'd like to add that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was really more "window dressing" than anything else.
Namely-even after it became law-if those who had fled North via the Underground Railroad could prove their having resided on free soil for 7 years, then their masters down South would lose all ownership of them.
It was actually the Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sanford, who flung America into disarray. Namely, the chief justice of the United States, Roger Taney, wrote for the majority that statutes of limitations did not apply to "the least-favored race," and thus escaped slaves had to live in fear of repatriation until they died.
This led to John Brown's ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, which in turn catalyzed the outbreak of the Civil War.
The people who support cancel culture of these northern leaders are the same ones who blindly support the current medicine rules. The corollary is when the gov. is very harsh in sentencing of certain types of individual crimes (getting sentenced 200 years for managing a lady in the oldest pro), when it’s actually institutionalizing the same crime on a much larger scale and to a massive societal detriment.
This gaslighting serves two purposes: 1 eliminates competition and 2 provides an effective smokescreen based on cognitive dissonance and plausible deniability.
Knowing this will help you to anticipate some very absurd things coming.
For example, if they are cancelling slavery promoters from the 1700s, guess what’s going to be institutionalized in a highly disguised form? You got it, slavery.
This will probably occur via the complete digitalization of currency, medical record, and identify records. Your entire existence will literally be cancelled from being able to buy or sell, get medical treatment , or leave the country Etc by a federal contractor (ie, alphabet), for opinions you wrote online that go against the objectives.
Good info but you come off a little biased
I definitely am biased towards a specific point of view in this one