 | Francis Wharton - 1887
...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...France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitnde of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887
...globe one single spot, the possessor of which is onr natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our...more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing bereit in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might L;ivr retained it quietly... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1887 - 331 страници
...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 erelong yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half our inhabitants. France,... | |
 | 1887
...France, " There is one 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. * * France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude of defiance, * * * and seals the... | |
 | William Barrows - 1887 - 432 страници
...which is ou'r 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...produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants." Jefferson had heard with regret an< that France had recovered her ancient '. But with railways radiating... | |
 | 1890
...spot, the possession of which is our natural and habitual enemy, New Orleans, through which the product of our territory must pass to market, and from its...produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants." And again, " France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance." Spain might... | |
 | Charles Joseph Felix Brunet - 1890 - 367 страници
...habitual enemy. That in New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pas' to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than one-half of our produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. And he further said: That if... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 431 страници
...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...our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.20s Napoleon, too, had another reason for being willing to sell Louisiana besides the want... | |
 | 1895
...possessor of Egypt must be secured. Then, there was which is our natural enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the liritish fleet and nation. " Livingston did his best.... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1895
...New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market. * * * France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us...defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. * * * The day that France takes possession of New Orleans * * * seals the union of two nations, who,... | |
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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... 
