No he did not die a few weeks after he became president. He was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
I believe the answer is, To pay the fine and go to jail.
Explanation:
Theodore Parker was an abolitionist, meaning he was against slavery. I think that he would stand by his beliefs and go to jail, rather than move to Canada, or support slavery.
<span>"[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861</span>