 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 threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...  Thomas Jefferson - Page 225by David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 582 pages
...difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing 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 - 1834 - 442 pages
...difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. 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... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...single spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy ;" which spot was New Orleans, " through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and ere long yield more than half of our whole produce." That this could not be possessed by France... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 708 pages
...th" Ģiobe 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 618 pages
...difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 620 pages
...Her growth, therefore. we viewed as our own, her misfortunes ours. There is on the globe one singlc spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more... | |
 | William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - Governors - 1856 - 580 pages
...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... | |
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