 The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page viiiby Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 582 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...blind if they do not see this; and we must be very improvi4ent if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 538 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | François marquis de Barbé-Marbois - Louisiana - 1830 - 468 pages
...against France. See Ap- . pendix, No. 18. Mr. Jefferson also wrote to Mr. Livingston, as follows: — "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low- water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...blind, if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident.if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...completely negative the charge of partiality to France, which has been so often imputed to him : " The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be...hypothesis. The day that France takes possession of New-Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her lowwater mark. It seals... | |
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