 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 strani
...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...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 strani
...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...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 582 strani
...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...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 strani
...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...herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of de6ance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 strani
...through which the produce of hree eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its ferility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and on tain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself i that door,, assumes to us the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1845 - 706 strani
...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...France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the •Utitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 708 strani
...th" £iobe 1802. the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us...of defiance. The day that France takes possession seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 618 strani
...New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
 | William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - 1856 - 580 strani
...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." On my father's presenting to him (February 26th), as Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, the... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 strani
...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...that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state, would induce... | |
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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, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than... 
