 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
 | M. Mark Stolarik - Political Science - 1988 - 220 pages
...to France to purchase New Orleans, was imagining another destiny for the city: 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... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - Political Science - 1992 - 377 pages
...serious threat to the integrity of the union. As Jefferson summarized the danger: 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-eights of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more... | |
 | Martin L. Fausold, Alan Shank - Political Science - 1991 - 360 pages
...into "our natural and habitual enemy," the inevitable status of any vigorous foreign power possessing 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 than half our whole produce and contain more than... | |
 | Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, William L. Lang - History - 1991 - 484 pages
...the French threat. Of New Orleans in French hands, he wrote the famous words: "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy." Jefferson moved shrewdly and decisively to meet this critical situation. He sent special envoy James... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 228 pages
...the screws. He informed Livingston, in an open letter sent by way of a friend, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy," he wrote. "It is New Orleans. . . . France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - Political Science - 1995 - 420 pages
...hesitate then what language to hold. "There is on the globe," he wrote to Mr. Livingston at Paris, "one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction,... | |
 | Stephen M. Walt - History - 1996 - 388 pages
...the US minister in France (intended for French eyes as well), Jefferson wrote, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans." He added, "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans . . . from that day on we must marry... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 350 pages
...68. Chinard, Apostle of Americanism, 278. "There is on the globe one single spot," he later wrote, "the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeights of our territory must pass to market" (Jefferson to the US Minister to France, April 18,... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 592 pages
...call in the midst of the embargo, November 8, 1808, Works, Vol. 11, p. 71. 53. "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her... | |
 | Frank L. Owsley, Gene Allen Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 264 pages
...bonds of friendship and the historic ties that linked the two together, he knew, "there is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy." "It is New Orleans," he professed, "through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and... | |
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