This compromise, proposed by Mr. David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, Aug. 8, 1846, and not finally adopted, provided that slavery should be excluded from Texas.
1847. See NEGROISM.
1847. The pending amendment, known as the “Wilmot proviso,” proposes to exclude slavery for ever from any territory that may be acquired [from Mexico].—Mr. Dillingham of Vermont, House of Repr., Feb. 12: Cong. Globe, p. 402.
1847. If the South act as it ought, the Wilmot proviso … may be made the means of successfully asserting our equality and rights.—Letter of John C. Calhoun to a member of the Alabama legislature: cited by Mr. Duell of N.Y., Cong. Globe, p. 1797/1 (April 23, 1862).
1862. Webster and Clay and Cass and their compeers tossed aside the “Wilmot proviso” like a firebrand, and, without proscribing slavery, left it to make its dreaded inroads upon Utah and New Mexico.—Mr. Charles J. Biddle of Pa., the same, June 2: id., p. 2504/1.
1862. Under the threat of disunion in 1850, we abandoned the Wilmot proviso, and entered into a covenant that … Utah and New Mexico should be received into the Union, with or without slavery as their people might determine.—Mr. George W. Julian of Indiana, the same, Jan. 14: id., p. 328/1.
