 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 634 pages
...burgesses to the throne in 1772, beseeching the king " to remove all those restraints on your masjesty's governors of this colony, which inhibit their assenting...laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce? and the first clause of the bill of rights where, among other acts of misrule, " the inhuman use of... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects." " Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly...laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce." The petition proved unavailing. In the first clause of the independent constitution of Virginia, "the... | |
 | Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly...laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce. Your Majesty's ancient colony and dominion of Virginia hath, at all times, and upon every occasion,... | |
 | African Americans - 1827 - 470 pages
...majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects. Deeply impressed wi*h these sentiments, we most humbly beseech yovtt majesty to remove all those restraints on your majesty's governors of this flolony, which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so veiy pernicious a commerce. Your... | |
 | Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1832 - 132 pages
...praying him " to remove those restraints on the governors of the colony, which inhibited them from assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce." "The importation of slaves into the colonies, from the coasts of Africa, has long been considered as... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 472 pages
...implored the King "to remove those restraints on the governors of the colony, which inhibited them from assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce;" and the address contains the following prophetic language: — "The importation of slaves into the... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...with the security and happi53 ness of such numbers of your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects. " Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly...laws as might check so very. pernicious a commerce." The petition was rejected. Massachusetts exhibited equal boldness and ardour in her opposition to the... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects. " Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly...laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce." The petition was rejected. Massachusetts exhibited equal boldness and ardour in her opposition to the... | |
 | Thomas C. Thornton - Slavery - 1841 - 358 pages
...praying him to remove those restraints on the governors of the colonies, which inhibited them from assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce. The following copy of that address will give to the present generation, a just view of the noble and... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - Search, Right of - 1842 - 174 pages
...beseeching the Crown to remove all those restraints on the governors of that colony, which inhibited their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce. Judge Tucker, in his " Notes to the American Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries," from which we borrow... | |
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Colonies with more useful inhabitants, and may in time have the most destructive influence, we presume to hope that the interest of a few will be disregarded, when placed in competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your Majesty's... 
