 | Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 616 pages
...in the official declaration of the Earl of Dartmouth in 1775, that "the Colonies must not be allowed to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." revenue only, and the Virginia act of 1752 notices in its preamble that the duty had been found "no... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...British Colonial Secretary said, in answer to a remonstrance from the agent of the colonies : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." 2 1849 not surprised, therefore, to find as one of the counts of Jefferson's indictment of the British... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - West Indies - 1907 - 594 pages
...says the historian, and the Earl of Dartmouth (president of the board of trade) declared : " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." That same year, also, 1775, the Assembly of Jamaica petitioned his Majesty in favor of the Americans,... | |
 | Roy Macgregor Grier, Francis Aidan Hibbert - Great Britain - 1908 - 450 pages
...Secretary of State and one of the leaders of religious thought in England, declared that " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But in the Northern Colonies of America there was a rising spirit of dis(Fieiden 340.) like to it,... | |
 | William James Gardner - Jamaica - 1909 - 556 pages
...Liverpool petitioned against them, and Lord Dartmouth, as President of the Board of Trade, declared they could not " allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Strange to say, that very year, in Kingston, a debating club, composed largely of slaveholders, had... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 884 pages
...the Earl of Dartmouth, in answer to a remonstrance from the agent of the colonies, said: "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.* ,And so popular was this traffic that slaves were openly sold in the public squares of London. Thus were... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Commonwealth countries - 1913 - 604 pages
...Board of Trade disallowed a Jamaica Act laying an additional duty on imported slaves. They could not8 "allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." But beneficial or not, there was growing up a power, which neither King, Parliament, nor State Departments... | |
 | History - 1913 - 666 pages
...unheeded, and as late as 1775 Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies said, "We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation."17 Besides the question of population a second point respecting the "enumerated articles" now... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 590 pages
...the Revolution had begun) the Earl of Dartmouth informed an agent of the colonies that ' ' we cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. ' ' Thus the institution of slavery was forced upon the colonies against their will, and their repeated... | |
 | Oren F. Morton - Rockbridge Co., Va - 1920 - 618 pages
...the mercantile classes of England. On the eve of the Revolution, Lord Dartmouth said England "cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This forcing of slaves upon Virginia was one of the grievances named by Jefferson in his original draft... | |
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We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. 
