 | John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 612 Seiten
...purpose or intrepid of spirit. J The rising light of the revolution has been seen. » March 28. f " Resolved, That no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies." April 6, 17T6. t See Life of John Adams, by CA Adams, L 211, 212. Amid heavy clouds it was breaking... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...royal assent, which continually frustrated the will of the people. 1 The Continental Congress of 1776 resolved, that " no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies." 2 After the recognition of the independence of the States, the Convention which framed the Constitution... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 612 Seiten
...royal assent, which continually frustrated the will of the people.1 The Continental Congress of 1776 resolved, that " no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies."5 After the recognition of the independence of the States, the Convention which framed the... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 310 Seiten
...royal assent, which continually frustrated the will of the people.1 The Continental Congress of 1776 resolved, that " no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies."2 After the recognition of the independence of the States, the Convention which framed the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 Seiten
...wickedness. After every deduction, the trade retains its gigantic character of crime. country, by resolving " that no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen united colonies." In an age when the interests of trade guided legislation. this branch of commerce possessed paramount... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 Seiten
...all the next fortnight. One kind •—.^-* of traffic which the European maritime powers still 1776. encouraged, was absolutely forbidden, not from political...its numbers and its intelligence, it might in some part of the continent have endangered the supremacy of the white man; but he was sure to increase more... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 Seiten
...through all the next fortnight. One kind — ^ of traffic which the European maritime powers still IT 76. encouraged, was absolutely forbidden, not from political...its numbers and its intelligence, it might in some part of the continent have endangered the supremacy of the white man ; but he was sure to increase... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - 1860 - 934 Seiten
...Continental Congress, in addition to its action in the Non-Intercourse Agreement, Resolved, April 6, 1776, " That no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies."* The Delaware Convention, August 27, 1776, adopted, as the 26th article of its Constitution, that " No person... | |
 | Henry Darling - 1863 - 48 Seiten
...connected, the pledge was afterward changed into a positive prohibition. On the 6th of April, IT 7 6, it was resolved that no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen colonies. || And so, again, when in 1781 — the same year in which the Federal Constitution was framed... | |
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European maritime powers still 1776. encouraged was absolutely forbidden, not from political reasons merely, but from a conviction of its unrighteousness and cruelty ; and without any limitation as to time, or any reservation of a veto to the respective... 
