General Taylor was born in Virginia, was reared in Kentucky, was a soldier by profession from his earliest years of manhood, had passed all his life in the South, was a resident of Louisiana, engaged in planting, and was the owner of a large number of slaves.

Yet in the face of these facts General Cass ran as the distinctively pro-slavery candidate, and General Taylor received three-fourths of the votes of New England, and was supported throughout the North by the anti-slavery Whigs, who accepted William H.Seward as a leader and Horace Greeley as an exponent.

But his contradiction was apparent, not real.

It was soon found that the confidence of the Northern men who voted for Taylor had not been misplaced.
CABINET OF PRESIDENT TAYLOR.
As his inauguration approached, the anxiety in regard to his public policy grew almost painfully intense throughout the country.

There had never been a cabinet organized in which so deep an interest was felt,--an interest which did not attach so much to the persons who might compose it as to the side--pro-slavery or anti-slavery-- to which the balance might incline.