 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pagina’s
...Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy. But we have first to ask ourselves a question. Do we wish to acquire...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well... | |
 | Samuel Stambaugh Bloom - 1900 - 266 pagina’s
...Bonaparte, and now continued by the equally lawless alliance calling itself "holy." "But we have first to ask ourselves a question: Do we wish to acquire...states. The control which, with Florida point, this Island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pagina’s
...ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it. (To James Madison, 1809. CV, 444.) CUBA. — Do we wish to acquire to our own Confederacy any one...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pagina’s
...ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it. (To James Madison, 1809. CV, 444.) CUBA. — Do we wish to acquire to our own Confederacy any one...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pagina’s
...ix, 419. (M., 1813.) See CoRNWALLis and RETALIATION. 1947. CUBA, Acquisition by United States. — I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries an isthmus bordering on it. as well... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 454 pagina’s
...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."... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - 1900 - 310 pagina’s
...Alliance, even at the expense of renouncing all designs upon Cuba, which he had always^looked upon " as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states." " Madison inot only favored the idea of a joint declaration, but did not see why it should not apply... | |
 | 1901 - 1072 pagina’s
...point of its utmost interest. And in another letter to the same, on the 24th October, 1823, he says: I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it would fill... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1901 - 458 pagina’s
...advocate of the annexation of Cuba, wrote to President Monroe in 1823: "I candidly confess that I have looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which...States. The control which with Florida point this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 1444 pagina’s
...point of its utmost interest. And in another letter to the same, on the 24th October, 1823, lie says: I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba...most interesting addition which could ever be made to onr system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf... | |
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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 isthmus... 
