 | 1901 - 604 pages
...slave-owner ; Lord Dartmouth, one of the most religious statesmen of the century, declared that we could not allow the Colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation ; and Newton, the evangelist, who was at one time the captain of a slave ship, said that he never knew... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 704 pages
...Board, answered it on all the grounds of justice by the following declaration: and humanity ; but ' We cannot allow the Colonies , to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' And this was in 1774- !" P. 27. After the above expression of our opinions, it is almost needless to... | |
 | Joseph Foster Barham - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 96 pages
...mouth of the Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the Board, answered by the following declaration: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And this was in 1 774 ! * The conduct of this town, with regard to the Slave It is presumed, after... | |
 | 1824 - 470 pages
...mouth of the Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the Board, answered by the following declaration: ' We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' And this was in 1774!" The continuation of the Slave trade, having thus been forced upon the West Indian... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 pages
...Colonies, nnd that it has been declared by the Ministers of ihr Crown, that it would not be 'allowed to the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial and necessary to the Mother Country.1 " That various Acts have bet- n passed by the Legislature of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...mouth of the Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the board, answered by the following declaration, We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. And this was in 1774 ! It is presumed, ğafter this, not many persons will be disposed to contend,... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilmot Horton - Slavery - 1826 - 132 pages
...mouth of the Earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board, answered by the following declaration: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage,...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.'' And this was in 1774! Such are the statements and reasonings which appear to belong to a practical... | |
 | Alexander Barclay - Black people - 1827 - 596 pages
...board, milt OD all the grounds of justice swered by the following deand humanity ; but claration : — " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage,...any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And this was in 1774 ! ' It is presumed, after this, not many persons will be disposed to contend,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1827 - 796 pages
...earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board, answered by the following declaration : ' We caunot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nution; and this was in 1774; the imposition of slavery therefore being the act and deed of the British... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - Jamaica - 1828 - 530 pages
...that board, through its president, the Earl of Dartmouth, answered by a declaration to this effect: " We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage...any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." — The candid reader will be satisfied with the elaborate report of the slave laws of Jamaica, as... | |
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We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. 
