Fillmore lost his party’s nomination the next year to yet another military hero, General Winfield 'Old Fuss and Feathers' Scott, an anti-slavery candidate who then lost the election to General Franklin Pierce (whose party’s slogan was 'We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852').

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Fillmore's loss of the Republican nomination in 1852 was a sign that the hard-fought campaign against slavery was coming to an end. The Republican Party had been split on the issue and Fillmore’s election had effectively forced the Democrats to adopt the pro-slavery position on slavery popular among Southern slaveholders. The Whigs, on the other hand, had sought to minimize the issue of slavery, but were defeated by antislavery forces in 1848.

Source: Posters, Propaganda, And Persuasion In Election Campaigns Around The World And Through History

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