 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Local history - 1904 - 628 pages
...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.' " " 1 Some Considerations : Humbly Offered to Demonstrate How prejudicial it would be to the English... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - Southern States - 1895 - 328 pages
...restriction and gained a rebuke. In 1775, the Earl of Dartmouth haughtily replied to a colonial agent, " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Yet all the blame cannot be thrown on England. Had the colonies been as firm in defence of their duties,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 444 pages
...Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute law... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 pages
...Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute law... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...Lexiiigton, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied, " we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But sir ! my task does not end here. I desire to show that by her jurisprudence, that by the decisions... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 602 pages
...slave-trade by the American congress, in 1776, the earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." The assiento treaty, originally extorted by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy between Spain... | |
 | Alfred Caldecott - Anglican Communion - 1898 - 300 pages
...the full when he said — it is degrading to write the words as coming from a British statesman — "We cannot allow the Colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." It stands out fairly clear that whilst the planters depended on this traffic, and neglected to adopt... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...of Lexington, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the Colonies, replied: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.'' I say, then, that down to the very moment when our independence was won, slavery, by the statute law... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - Readers - 1900 - 332 pages
...discourage it, the merchants of Bristol and Liverpool, through the Earl of Dartmouth, declared: "We can not allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation "! This was in 1775; but in the first part of the next century the evils of the traffic became so apparent... | |
 | Helen Ainslie Smith - United States - 1901 - 540 pages
...sentiment expressed by the Earl of Dartmouth fifteen years later was already strong in England : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This difference, and the misbehaviour of Major-General Grant and other British officers in connection... | |
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We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. 
