Millard Fillmore, Forgotten Man

Millard Fillmore, Forgotten Man

(Melchizedek Communique, MC110109) It is looking increasingly
sinister, the way in which President Millard Fillmore has been erased
from historical memory.

President Fillmore's son, Millard Powers Fillmore, put in his will
that all correspondence, letters, etc. between he and his father were
to be burned or otherwise destroyed. But, when the son died in 1889,
the executor, Charles de Angelis Marshall, ignored the stipulation and
stored the papers in his attic. The executor died in 1908. At that
time his adopted daughter gave 44 volumes of Fillmore papers to the
Buffalo Historical Society. But other papers still remained in the
executor's attic. These were purchased by one Charles Sidney Shepard,
put in boxes, and sent to his mother's mansion ("La Bergerie") near
Oswego, New York. Many of those boxes mouldered in the mansion until
Shepard died in 1934. (Millard Fillmore, the forgotten president, by
Robert J. Scarry)

The above facts are found in an already mostly-disappeared book by one
Robert J. Scarry, possibly titled Millard Fillmore, the Forgotten
President. The book was apparently published in 2001, then quickly
went out of print. At amazon.com, stiff prices, starting at $150, are
demanded by unknown sellers. Material from the book, included in the
preceding paragraph, had to be painstakingly hand-typed from a "Google
Books" result.

Of course, it is pre-eminently conceded that Millard Fillmore is the
forgotten President. "Even to this day," writes Jane Clark Casey,
author of a juvenile-category biography of Our Millard, "he is the
forgotten president. Most Americans know nothing about him except his
name." (Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president of the United States,
by Jane Clark Casey)

It has even gone so far as this great President having become a
laughingstock for certain fiction authors. Besides the farcical The
Remarkable Millard Fillmore (by George Pendle), there has been
discovered a new low: Millard Fillmore, mon amour: a novel, by one
John Blumenthal.

A "Book Overview" describes Millard Fillmore, mon amour: a novel to be
"A hysterical new novel... Once a gangly teenager in oversized
clothes, Plato G. Fussell is now handsome and independently wealthy.
But inside he's still a bundle of neuroses and anxieties, with a
tendency to engage in moronic word games in the presence of beautiful
women. In the midst of working on his definitive ten-volume biography
of Millard Fillmore, Plato finds himself dodging his vile ex-wife,
trying to please his demanding elderly mother by inquiring weekly
about the state of her bowels, and attempting to remain verbally
coherent while courting a young woman whom he meets after her errant
Frisbee connects with his cranium."

So there is something "hysterically funny" about a ten-volume
biography of Millard Fillmore?? Members of the Friends Of Millard
Fillmore (FOMF) have the deeper knowledge about Our Millard and
understand that Fillmore was a great man who deserves better.

Significant correspondences ("As above, so below") repeatedly erupt in
the field of Millard Fillmore studies. Fillmore, who corresponds to
Melchizedek, is brushed aside by "Mr. Bigshot" (Abraham Lincoln), just
as Melchizedek gets brushed aside by Abraham in the Book of Genesis.
So too with the "forgotten man" symbiosis. Millard Fillmore, the
forgotten President, corresponds to the Great Depression's "forgotten
man" symbolism, which in turn ramifies down to the present "Great
Recession." In tune with the synchronicity is author Amity Shlaes,
whose book, The Forgotten Man, appeared in 2008: The "roots of our
disillusionment" can be found in the time of the Great Depression.
Aye, but look further aft, matey! The deepest root is Millard Fillmore
and how he is the ultimate "forgotten man."

Not many years after Fillmore left the White House, in 1853, his
manner of conducting politics was gone. "Debate and compromise were
replaced by renewed sectional hostility, then Civil War and
unconditional surrender." Fillmore also was exiled to the margins of
history. "By 1860 he told a friend that he was a forgotten man. He
remained a forgotten man for the next century and a
half." (Introduction and Acknowledgements section of, Millard
Fillmore: a bibliography, by John E. Crawford.)

Our history came to "enshrine Lincoln's presidency and leave
antebellum Presidents to the dim recollections of their hometowns, the
jeers of pundits, and indifference of most historians." (ibid.)

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