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"Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War," Eric Foner, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 84 - "

By 1860, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Oregon had all prohibited Negroes from entering their boundaries. Congressman David Wilmot, the Pennsylvanian, whose name lives on with the Wilmot Proviso to bar slavery in any territories taken from Mexico, made no bones about white-supremacist motivations: Far from any 'squeamish sensitiveness on the subject of slavery, (or) morbid sympathy...I plead the cause of the free white man.' He urged that the West must be reserved for whites because 'the negro race already occupies enough of this fair continent.'"