...congress, in 1776, the earl of Dartmouth addressed to a colonial agent these memorable words : " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in 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...

...the slave trade, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed the following words to a colonial agent : We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. During a debate in the house of commons on the question of the suppression of this trade, a wise legislator...

...Colonies, and one of the most conspicuous leaders of the English religious world," declared, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." 1 Yet, at the very time at which an English minister could make such a declaration, the agitation had...

...saying it was " the pillar and support of the British plantation trade in America," and that they " could not allow the colonies to check or discourage,...degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And so slavery continued, until, as the result of secession, freedom came to the millions who had been...

...colonists remonstrated, but the President of the Board of Trade replied that "we cannot allow the colonists to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." In a History of Jamaica published in 1774, the author estimates that the yearly number of fresh slaves...

...gained a rebuke. In 1775, the Earl of Dartmouth haughtily replied to a colonial agent, " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in 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,...

...and the policy of England, by addressing to a colonial agent these memorable words : — ' We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' " " 1 Some Considerations : Humbly Offered to Demonstrate How prejudicial it would be to the English...

...this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in 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...

...this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in 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...

...Lexiiigton, this same Earl of Dartmouth, in remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, replied, " we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in 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...