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The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty.he Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).
Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the MexicanâAmerican War (this was only three months into the two-year war).he vote to add the proviso to the bill was then called, and it passed by 83â64. A last-ditch effort by southerners to table the entire bill was defeated by 94â78, and then the entire bill was approved 85â80. Most ominously, these votes all fell overwhelmingly along sectional rather than party lines.