re: LSU's first president pays a visit to the great state of South Carolina

Taylor actually was one of the presidents whom got into office and tried to stop the expansion of slavery. He also didn't compromise with the southern states which every president did before him because of fear of secession. You could say he was the opposite of racism but he in fact owned slaves like every smart business man in the agricultural era of the south. But he did nothing to stop slavery unlike Lincoln. Taylor when he got into office applied every bill/compromise to the "T" justly and with an iron fist when the south bitched. He actually threatened the he'll out of the dumbass south Carolinian's for a threat to leave the union.

Eta: whoops miss read title thought it said first president out of Louisiana. I have no clue If Taylor was the president of LSU in 1860.