Chapter 437

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

All citizens of the country can contribute to the candidates who are in line with their demands and political opinions and want him to run successfully.

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

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

The political contribution of the capitalists to the presidential candidates is not a charitable donation, but an investment behavior, which is to seek return.

After the candidates get the political contributions, they will return the political benefits to the gold owner and make the gold owner profit.

That is to say, the capitalists who provide the presidential candidates with a large amount of money have their own demands, and they need the candidates to complete their demands after the successful election.

However, this sudden huge donation made Zachary Taylor a little dignified and didn't know what the other side would want.

He told himself in his heart that if the demands of the other party offended the interests of citizens and the state, he would not agree even if he did not want the funds.

Hearing Zachary Taylor's question, tom answered with a look of exploration and examination.

"General Taylor, our boss's money is not a political donation, but a gratuitous donation to support your campaign for president. There is no appeal."

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

"Why?"

Zachary Taylor asked in disbelief.

Tom smiled and said, looking at Zachary Taylor.

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

"It's him!"

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Finally, as the Whig party thought, the American Mexican War is just over. Zachary Taylor, the most famous war hero in the whole war, has a great influence on the people's mind. With all the advantages mentioned above, the operation of the Whig Party's strength and the large amount of campaign funds from New York, zaca Lee Taylor successfully defeated Lewis CASS and was elected the twelfth president of the United States.

After Taylor came to power, he first dealt with Cuba.

South American slave owners have long coveted Cuba as a new source of slave labor. President Polk wanted to buy an island from Spain.

In 1849, the expansionists and slave owners in the south of the United States supported a Cuban adventurer to organize an expedition near New Orleans to incite rebellion in Cuba and prepare to merge Cuba into the United States as a slave state later.

President Taylor worried that this would cause great disputes at home, so on August 11, 1849, he issued a proclamation on Cuba, declaring that the United States government has the responsibility to abide by the treaty and prevent its citizens from violating the territory of friendly countries. He warned American citizens not to participate in the illegal activities of the armed expedition against Cuba.

The expedition's plan was broken down and was stillborn.

This is the first time that Zachary Taylor has been against the slave owners of the South plantation.

In fact, Zachary Taylor himself is actually one of the slave owners of the Southern plantation. In his own interests, he should have supported this incitement to Cuba, but the slave owner is only his identity.

For more than 40 years, he spent most of his time in the army. The huge cotton plantation was just an industry of his. He didn't spend too much time on his slaves. He was 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, rather than continue to invade greedily. This is not good for the stability and development of the country. What really benefits is that these slaves in the South urgently need to expand the plantation rules The southern slave owners of mo.

Zachary Taylor's behavior caused dissatisfaction among some southern planters, who believed that he had betrayed the South and turned to the northerners.

At this time, Zachary Taylor is facing another big problem.

Whether slavery was practised in California, New Mexico, Utah and other lands newly acquired by the United States after the Mexican War.

The slave owners of plantations in the South and the bourgeoisie in the north have been fighting fiercely for a long time.

As early as 1790, the federal government established a mason Dixon line between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland in order to solve the interstate boundary dispute. This line became the boundary between the free states and slave states in the eastern United States after 1804.

To the north of this line is the free state, and slavery is not allowed; to the south is the slave state, and slavery is allowed.By 1819, there were 22 states in the United States, half of which were slave states and half of which were free states, so they had equal seats in the Senate. The slave owners of the Southern plantation and the northern bourgeoisie kept a balance in political power and jointly controlled the development direction and political decision-making of the United States.

But in 1819, when slavery existed as early as the French period, Missouri applied to join the union.

So there was a debate in Congress about whether Missouri would join the union as a free state or as a slave state.

At the end of the same year, the northern region called for a separate Maine region to join the union as a free state.

Finally, Congress reached the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Missouri, as a slave state, and Maine, as a free state, joined the union, maintaining the "balance of power" in the Senate, and setting the boundary between the free state and slave state at 36-30 n.

When Zachary Taylor became president, the northern states were in a period of intense opposition to slavery.

Whether the new land acquired after the US Mexico war is 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 and New Mexico.

California's demand to join the union as a free state, and New Mexico's demand to become a slavery free zone, immediately heated the struggle in the north and south.

Congress also quarreled and disagreed over slavery. Even the selection of a gatekeeper was required to investigate his attitude towards slavery.