1850: Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, Whig from New York, becomes President when Zachary Taylor dies of cholera in 1850.

Orders Escaped Slaves Sent Back to the South

Though he had said he was opposed to slavery, Fillmore signs a law in 1850 making it legal to caputre people who flee to the free states to escape slavery. After the fugitives are arrested, they can be sent back to the slavers who claim to own therm. When some people who hate slavery try to help some people from Maryland who escaped from slavery, Fillmore claims that they are traitors.