The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore: Volume 1, January 1844-June 1848

"Budding treason insists on extending the slave territory, and if it can not, threatens dissolution of this glorious union." -Millard Fillmore, June 22, 1844 "War even when carried on in the mildest & most humane manner possible, is a scourge to any Nation." -Zachary Taylor, January 5, 1848 This series features letters written by or to Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, the twelfth (1849-50) and thirteenth (1850-53) presidents of the United States.It begins in 1844, when they became prominent national figures.It will continue through Taylor's death in the White House and end, in 1853, with Fillmore's political retirement.The letters document diverse perspectives on a growing and divided nation. In that decade, the United States expanded its boundaries while advancing toward civil war.Americans debated Caribbean and European revolutions, import tariff adjustments, a global cholera pandemic, the sale of alcohol, and Indigenous peoples' expulsion from the East.Presidents Taylor and Fill