 | Thomas Donaldson - 1881 - 568 страници
...Livingston, at Paris, April 18, 1802, Mr. Jefferson regretted the cession of Lonisiana to France, and said: "There is on the globe one single spot the possessor of which is onr natnral and habitnal enemy. It is New Orleans — throngh which the prodnce of threeeighths of... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 832 страници
...territory of Louisiana, President Jefferson wrote to our Minister at Paris these remarkable words: — " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...must pass to market, and from its fertility it will erelong yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half our inhabitants. France,... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1882 - 870 страници
...all the 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...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 to... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 страници
...it makes on my mind. It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States. . . . There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans. ... It is impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in... | |
 | 1903 - 820 страници
...instructions of April 1 8, 1802, addressed to Chancellor Livingston, our minister at Paris. He wrote : "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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1886 - 876 страници
...Spain to France works most sorely on the United States. On this subject the Secretary of State lias written to you fully ; yet I cannot forbear recurring...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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 страници
...could have an occasion of difference. Her growth, therefore, we viewed as our own, her misfortune as ours. 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 erelong yield more... | |
 | 1886 - 662 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...enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from 1 Historical Collections of Louisiana,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887 - 866 страници
...Ц 14n, 154; supra, § 58. " The cession of Louisiana and the Floridas by Spain to France worksmost sorely on the United States. On this subject the Secretary...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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1887 - 376 страници
...the American position was thus clearly stated in a letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Livingston : " There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...must pass to market ; and from its fertility it will erelong yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half our inhabitants. France,... | |
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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... 
