...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 control which, with Florida's point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and isthmus bordering...

...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 . . . yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, but by war, ... I have no hesitation in...

...Monroe relative to the proposed message, said: "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."' When Mr. Monroe was sent to France as envoy in 1794, his very specific instructions contained the following:...

...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I cordially confess that I have ever 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." After the...

...Island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the countries and Isthmus bordering upon it, as well as those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. In a word, Mr. Jefferson was seeking Cuba because it would give us control over the " Gulf of Mexico...

...confederacy 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...would fill up the measure of our political well-being. [Jefferson as President had carried out his project of the purchase of Louisiana. Here again we find...

...cannot cast her off from its bosom."* In the same year Jefferson wrote: "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States . . . Her addition to our •U. 8., House, Exec. Doc., 32d 121, pp. 6-7. Cong., 1st Seas. (1851-1852),...

...equally lawless alliance calling itself Holy." After pausing to confess: "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," and regretfully bidding the vision farewell in his assent to the self-denying clause of the Canning...

...cannot cast her off from its bosom." 6 In the same year Jefferson wrote: "I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States . . . Her addition to our confederacy is exactly what is wanting to advance our power as a nation to...

...Monroe on the polity of annexation of Cuba " 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." in a letter dated October 24. 1823 and cited by the author as Jefferson's support of Adams conception...