 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 Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...of the United States and will form a new epoch in our political course. * * * 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...political course. . . . We have ever looked to her [France] as our natural friend There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass. . . . France, placing herself in that door, at once assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...course. . . . We have ever looked to her [France] as our natural friend. . . . There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural...produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass. . . . France, placing herself in that door, at once assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might... | |
 | Christopher Columbus Langdell - Personal property - 1898 - 538 pages
...letter to Mr. Robert R. Livingston, April 18, i8o.\ in Paris, Mr. Jefferson says : 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...natural friend — one with whom we could never have an occasion of difference; but there is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our 'natural...which the produce of three-eighths of our territory mast pass to market ; and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce,... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 534 pages
...of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course. . . . There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy." t Livingston was instructed to enter into negotiations immediately for the cession of New Orleans and... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1877 - 538 pages
...ot the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course. . . . There is on the globe one single spot. the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy." 1 Livingston was instructed to enter into negotiations immediately for the cession of New Orleans and... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 978 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... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1879 - 698 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. The day that France takes possession seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1879 - 698 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. The day that France takes possession seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
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