 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 Seiten
...globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and- habitual enemy. It is . New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our...our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.20s Napoleon, too, had another reason for being willing to sell Louisiana besides the want... | |
 | 1895 - 646 Seiten
...possessor of Egypt must be secured. Then, there was which is our natural enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the liritish fleet and nation. " Livingston did his best.... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1895 - 524 Seiten
...New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us...defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. * * * The day that France takes possession of New Orleans * * * seals the union of two nations, who,... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1895 - 614 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference." But France, placing herself at the door of our interior commerce, "assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific disposition, her feeble state, would induce her to increase our facil1ties there, so that her possession... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1895 - 526 Seiten
...globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1895 - 526 Seiten
...globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have... | |
 | Nathan C. Green - 1896 - 532 Seiten
...globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our...might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific disposition, her feeble state, would induce her to increase our facilities there, so that her possession... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1897 - 540 Seiten
...globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our...half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants. France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude of defiance.-' Spain... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1897 - 300 Seiten
...produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market. This territory, from its fertility, will yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants." Though many opposed the measure of Jefferson, a majority agreed with him in the wisdom of his policy.... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 694 Seiten
...Through New Orleans, said he, the produce of three-eighths of our territory " must pass to market. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance."651 It was the intention of Bonaparte to establish a military despotism at New Orleans. "... | |
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There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than... 
