...Democratic member from Pennsylvania, to introduce. This amendment, which became known as the Wilmot Proviso, provided that "As an express and fundamental condition...Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty to be negotiated between them, and to the use by the executive, of the moneys herein appropriated,...

...Democratic member from Pennsylvania, to introduce. This amendment, which became known as the Wilmot Proviso, provided that “As an express and fundamental condition...Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty to be negotiated between them, and to the use by the executive, of the moneys herein appropriated,...

...offered the following amendment, which acquired so much notoriety, as the famous "Wilmot Proviso." "Provided. That, as an express and fundamental condition...States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys hereiu appropriated, neither slavery nor...

...North is united on Wilmot's- proposition to a man, and intend to act on it when the country is con" Provided', That as an express and fundamental condition...States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor...

...Northwest Ordinance of 1787, language which was originally that of Thomas Jefferson, Wilmot proposed that “as an express and fundamental condition to...acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico . . . neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except...

...Wilmot asked for an amendment forbidding the extension of slavery into the new territory. He proposed as "an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory" that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." 2...

...from Mexico after the war, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania introduced an amendment stating that “as an express and fundamental condition to...acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico ... neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory.” 4...

...it had become known that Van Buren himself supported the Wilmot Proviso, which would have stipulated that "as an express and fundamental condition to the...acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico," slavery should be excluded from that territory. At the state convention in Syracuse on 29 September...

...slavery by offering an amendment to Folk's "Two Million Bill." It authorized the expenditure, but only "provided, that, as an express and fundamental condition...territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States ... neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." Named...

...moved in the House August 8, 1846, David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, offered an amendment which “provided, that, as an express and fundamental condition...States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...