“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.”

David Wilmot

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About David Wilmot

Politician American

David Wilmot was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served as a U.S. Congressman and later a U.S. Senator. He is best known for authoring the Wilmot Proviso, a legislative proposal in 1846 that aimed...

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