 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...  Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Poweravtor: David Mayers - 2007Omejen predogled - O knjigi
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 256 strani
.... 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 and habitual...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 - 1871 - 602 strani
...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 and habitual...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 - 1898 - 538 strani
...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 and habitual...half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 strani
...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 and habitual...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,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 strani
...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... | |
 | 1903 - 710 strani
...1802, wrote to Robert R. Livingston, our Minister at Paris, " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...its fertility it will ere long yield more than half o£ our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 strani
...by the French of the mouths of the Mississippi. " There is on the globe," he said, "one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...It is New Orleans — through which the produce of three eighths of our territory must pass to market; and by its fertility, it [the valley of the Mississippi"]... | |
 | Thomas Donaldson - 1881 - 566 strani
...habitnal enemy. It is New Orleans — throngh which the prodnce of threeeighths of onr territory mnst pass to market ; and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of onr whole prodnce and contain more than half of onr inhabitants." Railroads were not then contemplated.... | |
 | Thomas Donaldson - 1881 - 578 strani
...Jetferson regretted the cession of Louisiana to 1'rance, and said: "There is on the globe one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans — throngh which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market ; and from its fertility... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1882 - 870 strani
...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...three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance, * * * * (and) seals the... | |
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