Talk:Wilmot Proviso

message: Much of this article is still awkwardly worded; I will try to fix this after examining it for a bit longer.  Furthermore, it would be worth noting that the proviso bounced back and forth between the House and the Senate, passing in the former and being rejected in the latter.  However, I am not familiar enough with the details behind this to comment.  
Matthew Plough
I completly agree. The last paragraph is very poorly worded and i'm not exactly sure what it even means. I'll look into some and see if i can decipher what the intent was. --Tainter 09:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: Quite ironic that nobody has mentioned the Burgundy Declaration at all... I think at a minimum, that should be included as a counterpoint. 71.194.6.238 05:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vis a Vis Burgundy Declaration

message: Southerners saw slaves as property, and since their rights y was expanding.
I tidied up some grammar and questionable word choice, but I can't make out what this somewhat crippled sentence was meant to say. . . . --Michael K. Smith 14:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what that sentence was supposed to mean, but historically, both some Northerners and some Southerners thought that if the territory in which slavery was allowed didn't keep on expanding, then eventually slavery would stagnate economically, and those who supported the continuation of slavery would find their political position weakened.  Many Southerners had fantasies of the U.S. acquiring Cuba, and large chunks of Mexico and Central America, as slave territories (some to be eventually admitted as slave states to balance out the votes of northern states in Congress) -- which is why they were so vehemently opposed to restrictions on slavery in newly-acquired territories, such as the Wilmot Proviso.  In 1861, the Crittenden compromise basically failed because of a dispute about whether slavery would be forbidden in territories which might be acquired in future -- there was no disagreement about continuing slavery in the the states where it then existed, and little dispute that New Mexico was pretty much the only existing territory possibly suitable for slavery (in the aftermath of the Kansas fiasco), but the real sticking point was whether or not slavery should be allowed in territory "hereafter acquired"... AnonMoos 15:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: If you come to this article without prior knowledge of the proviso, the introduction to the article doesn't make sense. Is it possible someone knowledgeable about this topic could add an brief introductory statement describing what exactly the proviso is?
Jocmckin (talk) 01:13, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what you want to know but can't figure out.  The Mexico vs. U.S. war had recently started, and some opponents of the war (especially Northern Whigs) suspected that some supporters of the war (especially Southern Democrats) were in favor of the war mainly to expand the U.S. territories in which slavery was allowed, and ultimately the number of slave states.  Therefore congressman Wilmot offered his amendment that would prohibit slavery in lands to be acquired from Mexico. It's all there in the article, as far as I can see... AnonMoos (talk) 09:17, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
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