 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 counlrii.s... | |
 | William Windham - Great Britain - 1837 - 678 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Windham - Great Britain - 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 848 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...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 698 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...greatest sway in the councils of the Union, to the President. This letter, dated so lately as the 25th of October, 1823, discusses the interests of the United...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...greatest sway in the councils of the Union, to the President. This letter, dated so lately as the 25th of October, 1823, discusses the interests of the United...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... | |
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