 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...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Seite viiivon Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 Seiten
...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...herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of de6ance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...through which the produce of hree eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its ferility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and on tain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself i that door,, assumes to us the... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 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...it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feoble state, would induce her to increase our facilities there, so that her possession of the place... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1845 - 706 Seiten
...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...France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the •Utitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 708 Seiten
...th" £iobe 1802. the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. The day that France takes possession seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - 1856 - 580 Seiten
...spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance." On my father's presenting to him (February 26th), as Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 692 Seiten
...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 threeeighths...produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. Franco, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 704 Seiten
...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 threeeighths of our territory must pass fo market; and. from its fertility, it will ere loug yield more than half of our whole produce, and... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - 1869 - 358 Seiten
...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...defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Perhaps nothing since the Revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbot - 1869 - 430 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 the attitude of defiance. * * * France, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, * * * renders it impossible that France... | |
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