 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, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than...  American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action - Pagina 12door Hilton Proctor Goss - 1955 - 315 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 pagina’s
...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, and from its...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 pagina’s
...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 - 820 pagina’s
...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, and from its...it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feoble state, would induce her to increase our facilities there, so that her possession of the place... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1845 - 706 pagina’s
...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, and from its...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - 1856 - 580 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865 - 692 pagina’s
...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...produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. Franco, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - 1869 - 358 pagina’s
...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, and from its...defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Perhaps nothing since the Revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbot - 1869 - 430 pagina’s
...New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. * * * France, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, * * * renders it impossible that France... | |
 | Christopher Columbus Langdell - 1898 - 538 pagina’s
...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, and from its...might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific disposition, her feeble state, would induce her to increase our facilities there, so that her possession... | |
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