 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...a question. Do we wish to acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as 1 am sensible that this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 pages
...a question. Do we wish to acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces ? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as 1 am sensible that this... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 716 pages
...Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...States in respect to Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...Stales in respect to Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" 1 candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba...which could ever be made to our system of States. The controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 296 pages
...the Floridas were incorporated. " I candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...island would give us over the gulf of Mexico, and the counlrii.s and isthmus bordering on it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." This... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 694 pages
...and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...equally lawless alliance, calling itself Holy." As to any acquisition to ourselves, he admits that he has ever looked on Cuba "as the most interesting addition...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being." Yet as it could not be obtained... | |
 | William Windham - 1837 - 694 pages
...and the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows: — "I candidly confess, that I ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...acquisition to ourselves, he admits that he D*S ever looked on Cuba " as the most interesting addition "hi™ could ever be made to our system of states. The control...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fi'1 up the measure of our political well-being." Yet as it could not be obtained... | |
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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 point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus... 
