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Tuesday marks the 175 th anniversary of California being admitted as a state. Sept. 9, 1850, is the day that then-President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, which made California the ...

In his Sept. 30 letter to The Buffalo News regarding President Millard Fillmore's support for the Compromise of 1850, Daniel Sack contends the Compromise was only good "for white men." He is mistaken.

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