The Speech that Settled Kansas: Eli Thayer's Rousing LectureMain MenuThayer's Lecture of December 5, 1854About the ProjectEditorial StatementThayer's Rhetorical StyleNewspaper Articles and LettersBibliographyAcknowledgementsMohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b
The Wilmot Proviso
12020-04-12T21:20:12-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b337332“Wilmot Proviso,” Ohio History Central. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Wilmot_Proviso. Accessed 08 Sep, 2019.plain2020-04-12T21:21:27-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592bWilmot Proviso was a proposal placed by David Wilmot from Pennsylvania to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. Thayer thinks that people do not need to follow any bulwark like the “Wilmot Proviso” to secure freedom. It is their birthright to be free. As a result, following the Wilmot Proviso in a passive manner will not bring anything fruitful.
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1media/S P 3 res_thumb.jpg2020-01-30T20:03:57-08:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592bSpeech Page 3 Numbered2Thayer, Eli . “There was a country (now Kansas) marked on our old maps as the ‘Great American Desert,’” Eli Thayer Papers, Brown University Library, MS. 78.1. Box 10 Folder 8.media/S P 3 res.jpgplain2020-04-12T21:41:40-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b