The Tyler Tribute is a newspaper in Tyler, Minnesota, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events. The newspaper is published once a week on Thursday. The Tribute covers Tyler and the surrounding communities of Lincoln County, Minnesota.
John Adams, on slavery, had written and said relatively little, but he was on the record as critical of the privileged Southern society whose power depended on human bondage.
Based on his well-documented research, he says 12 of our presidents owned slaves and eight of them owned slaves while serving as president. Zachary Taylor was the last sitting president to own slaves. Taylor owned 100 slaves and a Mississippi plantation, but he also opposed the extension of slavery to new territories. In 1850 the former Army general told a group of angry Southerners that if they seceded he would personally lead the Army and hang anyone taken in rebellion against the Union.