Chapter 436 Elected President!

Political donations are not as simple as donations. In a conventional sense, political donations, that is, campaign donations, are the free support provided by the supporters of the presidential candidate for the candidates they support.

All citizens of the country can make donations to candidates who are in line with their demands and political views and hope that he will succeed in his election campaign.

But usually the average person's donation is a few dollars, or even a few cents.

Although there are many ordinary people who donate across the country, the total amount donated to these ordinary people usually only accounts for a small part of the candidates' campaign funds, and the real big money comes from the capitalists!

Political contributions made by capitalists to presidential candidates are not charitable donations, but an investment behavior that demands a return.

After the candidates receive political donations, they will return to the donors with political interests after taking office, so that the donors can benefit.

That is to say, the capitalists who provide large sums of money to presidential candidates all have their own demands, and they need candidates to fulfill their demands after they are successfully elected.

And this sudden huge donation made Zachary Taylor feel a little dignified, not knowing what kind of appeal the other party would have.

He told himself in his heart that if the other party's request violated the interests of the citizens and the country, even if he did not want the funds, he would not agree.

Hearing Zachary Taylor's question, Tom met his scrutinizing gaze, and answered neither humble nor arrogant.

"General Taylor, this money from our boss is not a political donation, but a gratuitous donation to support your presidential campaign, and there is no appeal."

Tom's words made Zachary Taylor stunned for a moment. He thought about all possible answers, but he didn't think of this one.

"why?"

Zachary Taylor asked in confusion.

Tom smiled slightly and looked at Zachary Taylor and said slowly.

"Our boss said thank you for taking care of Victor and James over the past two years."

"It's him!"

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In the end, things turned out exactly as the Whigs thought. The Mexican-American War had just passed, and the biggest hero of the entire war, Zachary Taylor, the well-known war hero, had a huge influence in the minds of the people. With the advantages mentioned above, the operation of the internal forces of the Whig Party, and the large amount of campaign funds from New York, Zachary Taylor successfully defeated Lewis Cass and was elected as the No. 1 in the United States. Twelve Presidents.

After Taylor came to power, he first dealt with the Cuban issue.

Slave owners in the southern United States have long coveted Cuba as a new source of slave labor, and President Polk once wanted to buy an island in Cuba from Spain.

In 1849, American southern expansionists and slave-owner forces supported a Cuban adventurer to organize an expedition near New Orleans to seditious rebellion in Cuba, preparing to later annex Cuba as a slave state to the United States.

President Taylor was worried that this would cause great discord at home, so on August 11, 1849, he issued a proclamation on the Cuban issue, declaring that the U.S. government had the responsibility to abide by the treaty and prevent its citizens from encroaching on the territories of friendly countries, and he warned U.S. citizens Not to participate in the illegal activities of an armed expedition against Cuba.

The expedition's plan fell apart and was stillborn.

This is Zachary Taylor's first confrontation with Southern plantation slave owners.

In fact, Zachary Taylor himself is actually a member of the slave owners of the southern plantation. From his own interests, he should have supported this incitement against Cuba, but the slave owner is only his identity.

For the past 40 years, he has spent most of his time in the army, and the huge cotton plantation is just one of his industries. He doesn't spend too much time on his slaves. Far less harsh and cruel than other slave owners.

Now that he has become the president, he has to consider from the perspective of national interests. The war against Mexico has just ended. What he should do now is to digest the gains of this war.

Instead of insatiably continuing to launch aggression, this is not good for the stability and development of the country. The real benefits are only the southern slave owners who urgently need a large number of slaves to expand the scale of their plantations.

This behavior of Zachary Taylor caused dissatisfaction among some southern plantation owners, who believed that he had betrayed the South and joined the northerners.

At this time, Zachary Taylor faced another big problem.

Whether or not slavery was implemented in California, New Mexico, Utah and other lands newly acquired by the United States after the Mexican War.

The southern plantation slave owners and the northern bourgeoisie have long been engaged in a fierce struggle over slavery.

As early as 1790, the federal government drew up a Maison-Dixon line between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland in order to resolve interstate border disputes, which after 1804 became the eastern free state and the Demarcation line of slave states.

To the north of this line are free states, which do not allow slavery; to the south are slave states, which allow slavery.

By 1819, there were 22 states in the United States, of which the number of slave states and free states was equal, so they also had equal seats in the Senate. The southern plantation slave owners and the northern bourgeoisie maintained a balance of political power and jointly controlled the state. The direction and political decisions of America.

But in 1819, the District of Missouri, which had existed in slavery as early as the French era, applied to join the Union.

A dispute arose in Congress over whether Missouri should join the Union as a free state or a slave state.

At the end of the same year, the Northern Territory requested the separation of a Maine area as a free state to join the Union.

Finally, Congress reached the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state. 36 degrees 30 minutes.

When Zachary Taylor became president, northern states were at a time of heightened anti-slavery sentiment.

The large new land acquired after the Mexican-American War, whether it joined the Union as a slave state or a free state, has become an important factor in the expansion of the conflict between the north and the south.

The most pressing issue facing Zachary Taylor is the status of California versus New Mexico.

California's request to join the Union as a free state and New Mexico's request to become a slave-free territory immediately heated up the struggle between the North and the South.

Congress was equally bickering over slavery, with opinions so divided that even a gatekeeper was asked to investigate his attitude toward slavery.

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