 | James Monroe - 1902 - 474 pagina’s
...Buonaparte, 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...which could ever be made to our system of states. The controul which, with Florida point, this island would give us over the Gulph of Mexico, and the countries,... | |
 | Eva Emery Dye - 1902 - 466 pagina’s
...had so ominous a question." He who had said, " Pensacola and Florida will come in good time," and, " I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of States," had corresponded with the Spanish minister concerning a canal through... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 pagina’s
...Writings of [1823 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 - 1905 - 360 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 - 1905 - 1044 pagina’s
...the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy. But we have first to ask ourselves a question. DQ 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... | |
 | Albert Gardner Robinson - 1905 - 388 pagina’s
...to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself._|J I In the same year, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...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... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1905 - 348 pagina’s
...self-support, could gravitate only towards the North American Union; and Jefferson confessed that he had " ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...which could ever be made to our system of States." In 1848 an offer was made to Spain to purchase the island for $100,000,ooo, but it was summarily repulsed.... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1906 - 1062 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... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1906 - 1036 pagina’s
...(1853-'4), XLIY. 138. Extracts from these instructions aer given in Am. St. Pap. For. Rel V. 408. "1 candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as...States. The control which, with Florida point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and the Isthmus bordering on it. as... | |
 | 1907 - 922 pagina’s
...possession of the United States, increased. "I candidly confess," said he to President Monroe in 1823, "that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and the isthmus bordering upon it,... | |
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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... 
