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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24604451, member: 101855&quot;]The big problem for Winfield Scott was that the Whig Party was dying under his feet. The party was splitting in half as the southern and northern Whigs were parting company. </p><p><br /></p><p>Scott tried to appeal to German immigrants by pledging that he would push to make them citizens if they joined the military. His supporters made the point that Scott’s daughter was a Catholic who had become a nun. That may have backfired because the nativist sentiment was growing in the U.S. at the time. The American or “Know Nothing” Party would reach its peak in the mid 1850s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Overall the Democratic Party simply had a natural majority prior to the Civil War. It took special circumstances for a Whig to win the presidency during that time. In 1840, the William Henry Harrison supporters put out a huge effect to get him elected. They also had the advantage of a bad economic depression which had begun under the Democrats in 1837 and was still going strong. In 1848, Zachary Taylor was coming off his triumph in the Mexican War.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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