 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
 | Frank L. Owsley, Gene Allen Smith - 1997 - 264 strani
...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... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - 1997 - 592 strani
...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... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 strani
...over Louisiana did Thomas Jefferson write his famous aphorism, "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 our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants." But he was saying the same thing in... | |
 | Gregory H. Nobles - 1997 - 306 strani
...on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy," he wrote. "It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market." With France in a position to threaten the interests of western farmers, the president concluded, it... | |
 | John Warfield Simpson - 1999 - 422 strani
...Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic coastal ports. Jefferson wrote, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual...of our territory must pass to market, and from its [the West's] fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more... | |
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