I haven't yet been able to come up with anything re Harrison. Taylor OTH....
Though he was a slaveholder, Taylor favored admitting California to the Union as a free state. He opposed the various measures now known as The Compromise of 1850 & would, if he had lived, have
vetoed them. The South in 1850 IOTL was so incensed @ the thought of a free California that many
Southerners now started talking secession. What pacified it was the Compromise of 1850- whose terms,
no less a figure than Henry Clay admitted, were"substantially a southern triumph".* Taylor lives, we have no compromise- & most likely the ACW erupts ten years earlier than it did. (This was also the
verdict of a notable contemporary- a few days after Taylor's funeral Daniel Webster told a friend: "If
General Taylor had lived we should have had civil war"**). What would have happened THEN I'm not
going to even try & guess!
*- Quoted in Fawn Brodie, THADDEUS STEVENS: SCOURGE OF THE SOUTH, p. 114 of the 1966, Norton
Paperback edition.
**- Quoted in Richard M. Current, DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL CONSERVATISM, p.
171 of the paperback edition.