 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...  Advocate of Peace Through Justice - Page 3331922Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 pages
...question. Do we wish to acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing. Yet, as... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...question. Do we wish to acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 734 pages
...the Mexicans, what sort of language was then held by Mr. Jefferson ? It was this : — " I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters now into it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing." Thus he... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 716 pages
...Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...respect to Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...respect to Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" 1 candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...the Floridas were incorporated. " I candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...island would give us over the gulf of Mexico, and the counlrii.s and isthmus bordering on it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." This... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 678 pages
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows : — " I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...equally lawless alliance, calling itself Holy." As to any acquisition to ourselves, he admits that he has ever looked on Cuba "as the most interesting addition...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." Yet as... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 694 pages
...and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am... | |
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