Document #3 ERE
DOC #3: Source: Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, speech to the United States House of
Representatives, 1847
I make no war upon the South nor upon slavery in the South. I have no squeamish sensitiveness upon the subject of
slavery, nor morbid sympathy for the slave. I plead the cause of the rights of white freemen. I would preserve for free
white labor a fair country, a rich inheritance, where the sons of toil, of my own race and own color, can live without the
disgrace which association with negro slavery brings upon free labor. I stand for the inviolability of free territory. It shall
remain free, so far as my voice or vote can aid in the preservation of its character
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