. A brief history of the United States . GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR. TAYLOR AND FILLMORESADMINISTRATION.* (TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH PRESIDENTS: 1849-1853.) General Taylor, like General Harrison, died soon after hiselevation to the Presidency. Millard Fillmore, Vice-President,succeeded him. ♦ Zachary Taylor was bom in Virginia in 1784. Soon after his birth his parents,removed to Kentucky. His means of education were extremely scanty, and untilhe was twenty-four years of age he worlced on his fathers plantation. Madison,who was a relative and at that time Secretary of State, then secured for him an 19
. A brief history of the United States . GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR. TAYLOR AND FILLMORESADMINISTRATION.* (TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH PRESIDENTS: 1849-1853.) General Taylor, like General Harrison, died soon after hiselevation to the Presidency. Millard Fillmore, Vice-President,succeeded him. ♦ Zachary Taylor was bom in Virginia in 1784. Soon after his birth his parents,removed to Kentucky. His means of education were extremely scanty, and untilhe was twenty-four years of age he worlced on his fathers plantation. Madison,who was a relative and at that time Secretary of State, then secured for him an 192 EPOCH IV. [1850 Domestic Affairs.—Slavery questions were the greatpolitical topic of this administration. When Californiaapplied for admission to the Union as a free State, all thesesubjects were brought to a focus. A hot debate ensued, and. DANIEL WEBSTER. HENRY CLAY. JOHN C. CALHOUN. CLAY ADDRESSING CONGRESS. for awhile it seemed as if the Union would be rent this terrible crisis Henry Clay, the Great Pacificator,came forward, and, with his wonderful eloquence, urged the appointment in the army as lieutenant. From this he rose by regular and rapiddegrees to a major-generalship. Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, andBuena Vista, Avon him great applause. He was the hero of a successful war, and thesoldiers admiringly called him Old Rough and Ready. Many whig leaders vio-lently opposed his nomination. Daniel Webster called him an ignorant frontiercolonel. The fact that he was a slaveholder was warmly urged against him. Heknew nothing of civil affairs, and had taken so little interest in politics that he hadnot voted in forty years. His nomination caused a secession from the whigs, resultingin the formation of the free-soil party ; yet he maintained his popularity as President,and was one of the most esteem
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