| George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 էջ
...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." Yet there was one region, in the south of our republic, from which it was designed to exclude the African.... | |
| Thomas C. Thornton - 1841 - 358 էջ
...tendency of the colonists to resistance against the policy of England, by addressing to colonial agents, those memorable words, "We cannot allow the colonies...discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to our nation." This was the secret of the whole matter, and if to her benefit she would engage in it... | |
| George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 էջ
...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." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy... | |
| Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 էջ
...domination here, in 1775, an English secretary, the Earl of Dartmouth, wrote to a colonial agent in these memorable words : " We cannot allow the colonies to...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Slavery, therefore, has been ingrafted upon our institutions against our will. Princes and prelates,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 էջ
...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." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy... | |
| George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 էջ
...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." The assiento treaty, originally extorted from Spain by force of arms, remained a source of jealousy... | |
| 1846 - 592 էջ
...Earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board (in 1774), answered by the following declaration, — ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' Still less can we lay claim to a national character for humanity, from a consideration of the progress... | |
| 1847 - 650 էջ
...of Dartmouth, then president of the board, (in 1771,) answered by the following declaration, — " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Still less can we hy claim to a national character for humanity, from a consideration of the progress... | |
| 1854 - 488 էջ
...British Plantation Trade in America :" "were it possible for white men to answer the end of negroes ip planting," it is there contented, "our colonies would...never rival the manufacturers at home — and would ever suppress the spirit of independence in the colonists from a fear of insurrection among their own... | |
| James Maxwell - 1848 - 108 էջ
...importation of negroes, and was rebuked by the Secretary of State, Lord Dartmouth replying in these memorable words, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so highly beneficial to the nation :" These considerations, together with the abolition of slavery, are... | |
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