 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...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...herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of de6ance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...through which the produce of hree eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its ferility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and on tain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself i that door,, assumes to us the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1845 - 706 pages
...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 •Utitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her pacific dispositions, her... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 708 pages
...th" £iobe 1802. the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. The day that France takes possession seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | William Plumer (Jr.), Andrew Preston Peabody - Governors - 1856 - 580 pages
...spot on the globe, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. That spot is New Orleans. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance." On my father's presenting to him (February 26th), as Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory...produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. Franco, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...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...defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Perhaps nothing since the Revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbot - Mexico - 1869 - 430 pages
...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. * * * France, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, * * * renders it impossible that 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... 
