David Wilmot

“I would preserve for a free white population, a fair country, a rich inheritance, where the sons of toil, of my own race and own color, can live without the disgrace which association with negro slavery brings upon free labor.”

“I plead the cause of the rights of white freemen. I would preserve to free white labor a fair country, a rich inheritance, where the sons of toil of my own race and color can live without being degraded by the proximity of slave labor.”

“God forbid that we should be the means of planting this institution upon it.”

“The negro race already occupy enough of this fair continent... I have no squeamish sensitiveness upon the subject of slavery, nor morbid sympathy for the slave. I plead the cause of white freemen.”

“Slavery has a powerful and controlling influence in the councils of the nation; it is sectional in its character, and demands that the interests of the free States should be subservient to its own.”