English: 1848 Democratic cartoon attacks Gen. Taylor as butcher in Mexican War by portraying him sitting on a pile of skulls. In mid-19th-century United States political terminology, "available" basically meant electable. Some would have considered this hypocritical, since overall the Democratic party had been much more enthusiastically gung-ho about the war than the Whig party.
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An Available Candidate. The one qualification for a Whig president.
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English: Scanned by the editor from copy of unsigned poster used in Democratic campaigns in 1848.
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