David Wilmot
White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West.
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
I desire to keep slavery and black people in the South in order to reserve the territories solely for white people.
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.