| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 582 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. 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,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. 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,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. 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,... | |
| François marquis de Barbé-Marbois - 1830 - 468 Seiten
...against France. See Ap- . pendix, No. 18. Mr. Jefferson also wrote to Mr. Livingston, as follows: — "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on he globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and tabitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of hree eighths of our territory must... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 632 Seiten
...completely negative the charge of partiality to France, which has been so often imputed to him : " The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 618 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. 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 threeeighths of our territory must pass to market,... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 Seiten
...and ninety, England to be " our natural enemy" and he had treated her as such. Now he proceeds — "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us an attitude of defiance."... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 Seiten
...have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own — her misfortunes ours. 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,... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 Seiten
...this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to mnke arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which ia to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction,... | |
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