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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
on, its owners of iron mines grudged to America a share of the market for chap. III.} 1750. the rough material; the tanners, from the threatened inaction of the English furnaces, feared a diminished supply of bark; the clergy and gentry foreboded injury to the price of woodlands. Journals of Commons, XXV., 1053, 1091, 1096. The importation of bar iron from the colonies was therefore limited to the port of London, which already had its supply from abroad. The ironmongers and smiths of Birmingham thought well of importing bars of iron free, but, from. compassion to the many thousand families in the kingdom who otherwise must be ruined, they prayed that the American people might be subject not to the proposed restrictions only, but to such others as may secure for ever the trade to this country. Some would have admitted the raw material from no colony where its minute manufacture was carried on. The House even divided on the proposal, that every slitting-mill in America should be