...illustrated the tendency of the colonies and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent these memorable words : — " We cannot allow the colonies...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Yet there was one region, in the south of our republic, from which it was designed to exclude the African....

...tendency of the colonists to resistance against the policy of England, by addressing to colonial agents, those memorable words, "We cannot allow the colonies...discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to our nation." This was the secret of the whole matter, and if to her benefit she would engage in it...

...illustrated the tendency of the colonies and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent these memorable words : — "We cannot allow the colonies...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...

...domination here, in 1775, an English secretary, the Earl of Dartmouth, wrote to a colonial agent in these memorable words : " We cannot allow the colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Slavery, therefore, has been ingrafted upon our institutions against our will. Princes and prelates,...

...illustrated the tendency of the colonies and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent these memorable words : — " We cannot allow the colonies...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...

...illustrated the tendency of the colonies and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent these memorable words : — " We cannot allow the colonies...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy...

...Earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board (in 1774), answered by the following declaration, — ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' Still less can we lay claim to a national character for humanity, from a consideration of the progress...

...of Dartmouth, then president of the board, (in 1771,) answered by the following declaration, — " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Still less can we hy claim to a national character for humanity, from a consideration of the progress...

...British Plantation Trade in America :" "were it possible for white men to answer the end of negroes ip planting," it is there contented, "our colonies would...never rival the manufacturers at home — and would ever suppress the spirit of independence in the colonists from a fear of insurrection among their own...

...importation of negroes, and was rebuked by the Secretary of State, Lord Dartmouth replying in these memorable words, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so highly beneficial to the nation :" These considerations, together with the abolition of slavery, are...