I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus... The Constitutional Review - Página 681920Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1902 - 458 páginas
...interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of...into it, would fill up the measure of our political well being." But, while Jefferson was ambitious in the desire for extending the territorial limits... | |
| Christopher Columbus Langdell - 1898 - 538 páginas
...interesting addition that could ever be made" to our Union. "The control," he said, "which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the country and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 páginas
...the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," he says that he is " sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war." 2 Thus at each stage is the baptism of blood. In much better mood the poet Bishop recognized empire... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1877 - 558 páginas
...the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," he says that he is " sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war." 8 Thus at each stage is the baptism of blood. In much better mood the poet Bishop recognized empire... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1886 - 876 páginas
...interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters How into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1887 - 866 páginas
...interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of...political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this cau never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war, and its independence, which is our second... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1887 - 876 páginas
...interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and ibtlimiis bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1887 - 872 páginas
...interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries «ud isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure... | |
| 1896 - 832 páginas
...interest." And, once more, he avouches with a splendid candour that " the control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering it, would fill the measure of our well-being." Again, John Quincy Adams, in a letter to the American... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 páginas
...interesting addition that could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering it, would (ill the measure of our well-being." f Almost simultaneously with Mr. Jefferson's first letter,... | |
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