How did President Zachary Taylor appeal to both Northerners and Southerners?
What will be an ideal response?
As a candidate, Taylor portrayed himself as a unifier and a "no party" man to avoid isolating either Northerners or Southerners. He was known primarily as a military man and a war hero. As a result, Taylor's views on many important political issues, such as the Wilmot Proviso, were unknown.
This allowed the Whigs, Taylor's party, to run two separate campaigns, one in the South and one in the North. In the South, they stressed that Taylor owned slaves, and was therefore committed to the South's interests. In the North, they emphasized that Taylor's commitment to Whig values meant that he would not be a strong executive and would therefore not veto a Wilmot Proviso-type law. He was therefore able to campaign as a proslavery candidate in the South and a pro-Wilmot Proviso candidate in the North, without ever directly addressing the issue of slavery.
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