 I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus...  Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867 - Stran 473avtor: Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 637 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 strani
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political wcllbeing. Yet,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 strani
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 734 strani
...sort of language was then held by Mr. Jefferson ? It was this : — " I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters now into it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing." Thus... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 716 strani
...Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 strani
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 strani
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" 1 candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 296 strani
...were incorporated. " I candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...island would give us over the gulf of Mexico, and the counlrii.s and isthmus bordering on it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." This... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 strani
...equally lawless alliance, calling itself Holy." As to any acquisition to ourselves, he admits that he has ever looked on Cuba "as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." Yet... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 678 strani
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows : — " I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 694 strani
...and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet... | |
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