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What if President Zachary Taylor didn't get food poisoning on the Fourth of July in 1850? (previoustimesdiscussed)
CONSOLIDATION: Points of interest -- Taylor was planning on letting New Mexico, at the time a spanish speaking territory, into the US as a state (60 years before OTL); Texas was planning on defending their claims to New Mexican territory by force, and Taylor was prepared to "hang the traitors" if it came to that; and the Compromise of 1850 had actually already failed as an "omnibus" bill, and only passed OTL as a series of legislation, some of which (like the Fugitive Slave Act) required President Fillmore's active support to pass.