 | Education - 1883 - 642 pages
...peace with Mexico by the purchase of territory. David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment, "That, as an express and fundamental condition to...from the republic of Mexico by the United States, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." This is... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 748 pages
...peace with Mexico by the purchase of territory. David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment, "That, as an express and fundamental condition to...from the republic of Mexico by the United States, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." This is... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 1194 pages
...thereupon, on the 8th of August, 1846, moved a proviso to the two-million bill, declaring it to be "an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from Mexico, that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist therein." Mr. Wilmot was in... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - Courts - 1888 - 336 pages
...Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, but a Free Soiler, offered his celebrated amendment: "provided, that, as an express and fundamental condition to the...Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the executive of the moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Abraham R. Howbert - United States - 1888 - 404 pages
...amendment, to add to the end of McKay's modified bill, the following, which was agreed to: ' 'Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to the...acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mex : co by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to... | |
 | Lew Wallace - Presidents - 1888 - 644 pages
...David Wilmot, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, moved a proviso to a pending bill, affirming it "an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from Mexico, that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist therein." This was the entering... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - California - 1889 - 584 pages
...Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, but a Free Soiler, offered his celebrated amendment: "provided, that, as an express and fundamental condition to the...Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the executive of the moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Marcus Christian Hand - Syracuse (N.Y.) - 1889 - 234 pages
...territory having been introduced into Congress in August, 1846, Mr. Wilmot offered an amendment providing " that as an express and fundamental condition to the...from the Republic of Mexico, by; the United States, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in any part of said territory." This " Wilmot... | |
 | John Alden - 1889 - 414 pages
...against the consummation of his project. The "Proviso" was presented by a Northern Democrat, and declared that " as an express and fundamental condition to...from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." It became... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...certain Mexican territory, and was offered in Congress by Mr. Wilmot. a Democrat, on August 8, 1846. The amendment read "That, as an express and fundamental...condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Kepublic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty t liât may be negotiated between... | |
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Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein... 
