...English religious world, answering the remonstrance of a colonial agent in these memorable words : ' We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation.'3 It has been computed that up to the year 1740 the number of negroes who had been introduced...

...government abrubtly and sternly gave a quietus to these protests of the colonies, in the following words: " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." This remarkable exhibition of the unfeeling spirit of gain by which the English government was actuated...

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

...essential to the prosperity of the plantation. In 1676, the Earl of Dartmouth said to a colonial agent, " We cannot allow the Colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation-" In New York, too, the Dutch directed Peter Stuyvesant to use every exertion to promote the sale of...

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

...prohibited the slave trade, the Earl of Dartmouth addressed the following words to a colonial agent : We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...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...

...the Colonies, and one of the most conspicuous leaders of the English religious world," declared, " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...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...

...was " the pillar and support of the British plantation trade in America," and that they " could not allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any...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...

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