Author: Wilmot, D. [David]
Title: Slavery in the Territories. Speech of Hon. D. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, May 3, 1850. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the President's Message Transmitting the Constitution of California
Description: [Washington, D.C.], Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1850. First edition. Disbound. 8 pp. Text printed in two columns. 8vo. Wilmot's speech is in defense of the "Wilmot Proviso" and an attack upon the Compromise of 1850 for failing to include it. "It is a mockery.. to pretend that slavery cannot exist in the territories acquired from Mexico.. Let our action in these halls be controlled by the threats and policy of a slaveholding aristocracy.. and slavery will as certainly overrun those territories, as that it has spread from the Potomac, south and west, to the Gulf of Mexico and the banks of the Rio Grande. This result is not only admitted by the South, but it is openly and boldly proclaimed as her settled and fixed policy -a policy necessary, as she avers, to her safety, and from which, sooner than depart, she is willing to dissolve the Union.. The issue is upon us. It cannot be evaded. Its responsibilities are ours — let us meet them like men. The judgment of posterity and the tribunal of a just God, will hold us accountable for the issues of this great question of freedom or slavery." LCP. Afro-Americana 11271. Dumond p. 117. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy.

Keywords: Slavery, , Americana, Afro-Americana, Slavery, Americana, 19th c., Antebellum Government Documents, Slavery, Afro-Americana, Compromise of 1850, California, Pamphlet


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