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David Wilmot
Fleming, Walter L. | January 28, 1925 issue

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This article focuses on the book "David Wilmot: Free Soiler. A Biography of the Great Advocate of the Wilmot Proviso," by Charles Buxton Going. In this book the best chapters are those dealing with the antecedents, origin and authorship of the Proviso and the long struggle over it in House and Senate. In the Proviso debate, which ranges far and wide over the field of slavery, few abolition notes are sounded, but the Free Soil feelings of the Northern Democrats are everywhere evident. Wilmot's own statement will serve for all: "I have no squeamish sensitiveness upon the subject of slavery nor morbid sympathy for the slave."

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BOOKS; DAVID Wilmot: Free Soiler. A Biography of the Great Advocate of the Wilmot Proviso (Book); GOING, Charles Buxton; BIOGRAPHY; WILMOT, David; AUTHORSHIP
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