 | 1896 - 44 pàgines
...a 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...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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 pàgines
...point of its utmost interest." And, once more, he avouches with a splendid candor 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 wellbeing." Again, John Quiucy Adams, in a letter to the American... | |
 | Nathan C. Green - 1896 - 532 pàgines
...Cuba as the most' interesting addition that could ever be made" to our Union. "The control,'' he said, "which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the country and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up... | |
 | 1896 - 1088 pàgines
...the most momentous which has been ever offered to my contemplation since that of Independence." ... "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition that could ever be made to our system of States" ; a letter from James Madison to Monroe dated October... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - 1897 - 488 pàgines
...rapidly externally. The children of Jefferson, who purchased half a continent, and who wrote in 1823, " I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...which could ever be made to our system of States,'' may be expected to have a share of his trust that the Republic is the refuge of the oppressed; and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pàgines
...a 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Stambaugh Bloom - 1900 - 266 pàgines
...a 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pàgines
...444.) CUBA. — 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pàgines
...ix, 419. (M., 1813.) See CoRNWALLis and RETALIATION. 1947. CUBA, Acquisition by United States. — 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 454 pàgines
...says that this " would he, of course, in the first war." l 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."... | |
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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... 
