 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...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Stran 482avtor: Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Archibald Cary Coolidge - 1908 - 400 strani
...statesman, disinclined to an adventurous foreign policy, admitted that he had always "looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states." After the purchase of Florida, the thought of owning the farther side of the entrance to the Gulf became... | |
 | David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth - 1908 - 614 strani
...With her we must cherish a cordial friendship. 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. I have been so long weaned from political subjects, and have so long ceased to take any interest in... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - 1909 - 632 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, 1 Jefferson here recognizes for once the meaning of a navy. as I am sensible that this can never be... | |
 | Shailer Mathews - 1913 - 274 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I cordially confess that I have looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as I am... | |
 | Herbert Kraus - 1913 - 488 strani
...would give us over the Gulph of Mexico, and the countries and the Isthmus bordering on it, äs well äs all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. yet, äs I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war; and äs her... | |
 | Herbert Kraus - 1913 - 488 strani
...Confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? 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 Gulph of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 strani
...concerning which Jefferson in 1823 had written: — 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. It must be borne in mind that Mr. Jefferson was always consciously working out a permanent rather than... | |
 | History Circle - 1918 - 118 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...with Florida point this island would give us over the Gulph of Mexico, and the countries and the Isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1918 - 506 strani
...only towards the North American Union; and Jefferson confessed that he had "ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states." In 1848 an offer was made to Spain to purchase the island for $100,000,o00, but it was summarily repulsed.... | |
 | 1919 - 648 strani
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of Statea The control which, with Florida Point, this Island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and... | |
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