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The South's Only Dependable Friend
With the Democratic party split in two, the Whig party's candidate for president in 1848, Zachary Taylor is their only reliable friend. Consider the following facts:
He is a Louisiana slaveholder and therefore supports the slaveholder's right to property.
He is a career military officer and Mexican-American War hero, not a career politician, meaning he cannot be blamed for the Whigs' support for the American System , which is now discredited.
Our candidate is the ideal man for president and the only one who can unite the nation, for his agenda has no regard to creeds or principles.
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