Identifier: essentialsofunit00mowr (find matches)
Title: Essentials of United States history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Blanche Swett, Mrs., 1870-
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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er of Waters to the very shores of the Pacific. 307. The Wilmot Proviso. — When the President askedCongress for money to buy territory of Mexico, David Wil-mot of Pennsylvania offered in the House of Representativesa proviso that slavery should forever be prohibited in anyterritory purchased from Mexico. Although this did not passCongress, it strongly affected the general sentiment of thepeople of the North. The opinion was rapidly growing in allthe free states that slavery should not be further extended.The principle seemed to be that while, under the Constitu-tion, the national government could not interfere with thedomestic institutions of the several states, yet Congress hadthe constitutional power to make all needful rules andregulations respecting the territories. The proposal of theWilmot proviso angered the people of the slave states, and,on the other hand, failure to pass the proviso offended theopponents of slavery. 308. The Cost of the War and its Results. — The Mexican
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