 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 558 pàgines
...says that this " would be, of course, in the first war." 1 Afterwards, while confessing a longing for Cuba, " as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," he says that he is " sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war."... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 pàgines
...says that this " would be, of course, in the first war." 1 Afterwards, while confessing a longing for Cuba, " as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," he says that he is " sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war."... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1885 - 354 pàgines
...looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could 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 the isthmus bordering it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing." Is it generally known... | |
 | 1900 - 848 pàgines
...momentous which has been ever offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. ... I candif ly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting nddition which could ever be made to our system of states." (Facsimile of autograph draft.) Letter... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887 - 876 pàgines
...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 ibtlimiis bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887 - 872 pàgines
...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 «ud isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure... | |
 | 1896 - 832 pàgines
...point of its utmost interest." And, once more, he avouches with a splendid candour that " the control which, with Florida Point, this island would give...of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering it, would fill the measure of our well-being." Again, John Quincy Adams, in a letter to the American... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 pàgines
...Cuba as the most interesting addition that could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give...of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering it, would (ill the measure of our well-being." f Almost simultaneously with Mr. Jefferson's first letter,... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 826 pàgines
...Territories of the West. Soon after the acquisition of Louisiana was made safe, Mr. Jefferson wrote : " I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 820 pàgines
...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...of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering it, would fill up the measure of our political well being." To the southward many young men of the... | |
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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... 
