| 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. "... | |
| Daniel Wolsey Voorhees - 1898 - 478 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... | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman - 1898 - 350 Seiten
...there is one spot on the globe, the possessor of 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 British fleet and nation." 1 To Livingston, April... | |
| Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 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... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1899 - 470 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...from its fertility it will ere long yield more than one-half of our whole produce, and contain more than half our inhabitants." ' In February, 1803, he... | |
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