David Wilmot
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"David Wilmot" was a US politician; he was elected to the US Congress, serving 1845-1851, and to the US Senate, serving 1861-1863 to fill the remainder of a term. Wilmot was a United States Democratic Party/Democrat, a Free Soil Party/Free Soiler, and a United States Republican Party/Republican. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso (1846), intended to ban slavery in western lands gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848.

Wilmot was instrumental in establishing the Republican Party in Pennsylvania. His opposition to slavery did not include the evolving Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist position of immediately ending the institution in the entire country. His views on race were instead related to defense of white free labor and, by today’s standards, could be classified as Racism/racist. He also served as a District Judge and on the US Court of Claims.

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We didn't do a very good job. But we did it all right. The science was all right. We even advocated well. But at the end of the day, a political decision was made that we simply could not influence.

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Either do it with Republicans or don't waste your time. Republicans run the government. If you do not work with them, you will not be successful.

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Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

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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.

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Is that the type of vote that we would like to see? No, ... Do we understand that vote? Yes, we do. Property rights are a very big issue for him. These are trade-offs that are difficult, but they are the trade-offs that exist today.

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We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even get into environmental records.

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Come in every time you're in D.C. and teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a scientist in Washington. It's different now. All of a sudden, they've realized that there's more in this for them.

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Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

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White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West.

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