blind the nation as to the strong hold which slavery still had on the
country.


FOOTNOTES:

[1] These figures are from the _Report of the Lords of the
Committee of Council_, etc. (London, 1789).

[2] Sheffield, _Observations on American Commerce_, p. 28;
P.L. Ford, _The Association of the First Congress_, in
_Political Science Quarterly_, VI. 615-7.

[3] Cf., e.g., Arthur Lee's letter to R.H. Lee, March 18,
1774, in which non-intercourse is declared "the only advisable
and sure mode of defence": Force, _American Archives_, 4th
Ser., I. 229. Cf. also _Ibid._, p. 240; Ford, in _Political
Science Quarterly_, VI. 614-5.

[4] Goodloe, _Birth of the Republic_, p. 260.

[5] Staples, _Annals of Providence_ (1843), p. 235.

[6] Force, _American Archives_, 4th Ser., I. 735. This was
probably copied from the Virginia resolve.

[7] Force, _American Archives_, 4th Ser., I. 600.

[8] _Ibid._, I. 494, 530. Cf. pp. 523, 616, 641, etc.