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, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than... Obstacles to Peace - Page 447by Samuel Sidney McClure - 1917 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 pages
...which the produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 582 pages
...which the produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...which the produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 pages
...which the produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...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 pages
...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 - 442 pages
...which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...that door, assumes to' us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1845 - 706 pages
...which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...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 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 618 pages
...through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
| William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - 1856 - 580 pages
...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... | |
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