 | 1901 - 772 страници
...completely reverses all the politTHE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. 497 ical relations of the United States. * * * • There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market * * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 страници
...to France as our natural friend — one with whom we could never have an occasion of difference; but there is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory mast pass to market ; and from its fertility it will ere long yield... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 534 страници
...political relations of the 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 enemy." t Livingston was instructed to enter into negotiations immediately for the cession of New Orleans and... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1876 - 536 страници
...political relations of i the United States, and will form a new epoch in our politiIcal course. . . . There is on the globe one single spot, |the possessor of which is onr natural and habitual enemy."1 Livingston was instructed to enter into negotiations immediately... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1877 - 538 страници
...political relations ot the 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 enemy." 1 Livingston was instructed to enter into negotiations immediately for the cession of New Orleans and... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 страници
...and ninety, England to be " our natural enemy" and he had treated her as such. Now he proceeds — " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...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 страници
...circumstances that Thomas Jefferson on April 18, 1802, wrote to Robert R. Livingston, our Minister at Paris, " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...enemy. It is New 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... | |
 | Missouri Historical Society - 1906
...Louisiana as it would give us a free access to the ocean through the Mississippi, in which he said: " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...enemy. It is New 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 страници
...tliu occupation 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...eighths of our territory must pass to market; and by its fertility, it [the valley of the Mississippi"] will, ere long, yield more than half of our whole... | |
 | Thomas Donaldson - 1881 - 578 страници
...Livingston, at Paris, April 18, 1802, Mr. Jetferson regretted the cession of Louisiana to 1'rance, and said: "There is on the globe one single spot the possessor...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... | |
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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 three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than... 
