Here Victor and James said goodbye to Zachary Taylor, and galloped away on horseback, after only two people remained, their marching speed was much higher than before, after all, Zachary Taylor is over sixty years old, although his body is very tough, but he can't withstand the bumps of long-distance horseback riding, so the three of them spent most of their time riding slowly on horseback on the road before.

Now without the drag of old Taylor, the two of them galloped all the way, and soon left Kentucky, headed quickly towards New York, and it didn't take long to return to Chen Mo's luxurious manor in Brooklyn Farm, New York City.

On the Kentucky side, Zachary Taylor, who returned to his cotton plantation to retire, did not do so, and his life as a plantation owner lasted only a few months when he was interrupted by a sudden visit from a Whig representative.

This year is another election year, the presidential election in the United States of America is about to begin, and the vote war between the Whigs and the Democrats will start again.

This time, however, the Whigs, who had long opposed the Mexican War, took a fancy to Zachary Taylor, a war hero.

The Whigs succeeded in the 1840 general election by electing Harrison, the hero of war.

They had clearly tasted the sweetness, and this election happened to coincide with the end of the Mexican-American War, and the impact of the war was far from over, so they set their sights on Zachary Taylor, who was the most famous, and had the greatest influence among the people.

Zachary Taylor himself a Southerner, owning slaves and cotton plantations, was able to win the votes of the South; His outstanding performance and great achievements in the war against Mexico won him votes in the north and even in the whole country.

Moreover, Zachary Taylor was only thoroughly known during the Mexican-American War, and he resigned from the military and returned to his hometown after the war, and did not make any sensitive remarks in public, and people did not know much about him, and they were not familiar with his views on the major issues that were debated in the country at the time, which was also quite beneficial to his candidacy.

So on June 7, 1848, the Whigs nominated Taylor as their presidential candidate at their Third National Convention in Philadelphia.

Zachary Taylor originally resigned from the military because he was tired of the war, and was placed by President Polk in the later part of the war, and most of the troops were transferred, which led to the final fierce battle, and the remaining soldiers under his command suffered heavy casualties, which made him disheartened at the top and even more ridiculous about the rank of major general on his shoulders.

He is already a general, but he can't even keep his own soldiers, he does his best, risking his life to lead the soldiers to fight the enemy on the battlefield, but because of his action strategy, the president is dissatisfied and was ruthlessly pitted, not to mention the heavy casualties of the soldiers under his command, he almost can't come back.

This feeling of being betrayed by his peers and being oppressed by his superiors made him very unhappy, so Zachary Taylor didn't want to stay in the army anymore and look up to others, but simply returned to his hometown to retire, in his own plantation, everything is up to him, no one can order him, if anyone dares to pit him, he will directly pick up a shotgun and shoot him down!

He did spend a quiet and comfortable retirement on his plantation.

His cotton plantation was located in Kentucky, a southern slave state that allowed slavery, so Zachary Taylor was actually a slave owner, and his plantation had more than 100 slaves in addition to some of the subordinates and stewards who had served him for many years.

The entire plantation was his hall, and all affairs, including the life and death of slaves, were in his hands.

This land is his personal domain, and even the governor has no right to set foot on his territory without his permission, let alone dictate him.

He had planned to spend the rest of his life in this way, but the arrival of the Whig delegates made him change his mind.

He left the army he loved because he was betrayed by the president, and what if he became president himself?

As the country's supreme leader, who else can command him?

Moreover, although he chose to be passive and avoid the world, in fact, Zachary Taylor still has a heart to serve the country, and it is his love for the motherland that made him choose to join the army without hesitation, and in his more than 40 years of military career, he is brave and fearless, not afraid of life and death, everything he has done is only the strength of the motherland.

It's just that his patriotism was extinguished by President Polk's basin of ice and water in the Mexican-American War.

The country he loves, the supreme leader, the president of the United States, who represents the interests of the country, is harming him!

Deeply devastated and disheartened, Zachary Taylor chose to go home from his job.

Now, the opportunity for the Whig Party to become president is in front of him, and if he can really become president and lead the United States, he will be able to serve his country better!

Thinking of this, the patriotic heart that had been silent for many days couldn't help but burn in Zachary Taylor's chest again.

No longer hesitating, Zachary Taylor quickly made up his mind to fight this time!

The next day, he packed his things and headed for Washington, D.C., where he began his presidential campaign.

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And Zachary Taylor's first start was not to go around giving speeches to solicit votes, but to raise campaign funds, and due to the late preparation, Zachary Taylor's campaign funds were much less than that of his rival Lewis Cass, except for the small election funds provided by the Whigs.

And just as Zachary Taylor, with the help of the Whig Party's campaign committee, began to raise campaign funds everywhere, a large donation from New York made his campaign funds instantly more than Lewis Cass, enough for him to run the entire campaign smoothly and to the limit of publicity.

As a soldier with poor words, Zachary Taylor's biggest headache for campaign fundraising was done with ease.

The owner of the huge political donation did not come in person, but sent one of his representatives, Tom.

At his campaign office in Washington, Mr. Taylor met with representatives of the big donor.

Looking at the young man in front of him who was wearing a neat suit, with a serious and rigorous expression, and revealing a sense of the elite of the shopping mall, Zachary Taylor couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.

"Who is your boss? He donated such a large amount of money, I don't know what his appeal is? ”

When he asked this, the expression on Zachary Taylor's face was solemn. (https:)

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