 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
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...be " our natural enemy" and he had treated her as such. Now he proceeds — "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us an attitude of defiance." He then points... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 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...three-eighths 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 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...three-eighths 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 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 Xcw Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 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... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...arms of Great Britain. ' There is on the globe one single spot,' wrote Jefferson to Livingstone, ' the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...three-eighths 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 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...produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass fo market; and. from its fertility, it will ere loug yield more than half of our whole produce, and... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1865 - 974 pages
...be "our natural enemy," and he had treated her as such. Now he proceeds — " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us an attitude of defiance." He then points... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbot - Mexico - 1869 - 430 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...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. * * * France, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, * * * renders it impossible that France... | |
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