 | 1818 - 498 pages
...of Spain has scarcely been fell. TI.S authority has been confined, almost exclusively, to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only small garrisons have been maintained. Adventurers Irom every counlry, fugitives from justice, and absconding slaves, have found an asylum Iherc. Several... | |
 | Samuel Putnam Waldo - United States - 1819 - 362 pages
...of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined, almost exclusively, to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding, on the one side,... | |
 | History - 1819 - 838 pages
...of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined, almost exclusively, to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding on the one side,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 872 pages
...of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined, almost exclusively, to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding on the one side,... | |
 | Asia - 1819 - 814 pages
...16, to both houses of Congress, among the rasons assigned for seizing Florida, is ihe following : " Adventurers from every " country, fugitives from justice,...absconding slaves, have found an asylum <' there." If this is naïveté, it is matchless. The Seminóle war seems to be a barrel-organ with two handles,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...gorernment of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined almost exclusively to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...small garrisons have been maintained. Adventurers from erery country, fugitives from justice, and absconding slaves, have found an asylum there. Several tribes... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 590 pages
...from every country, fugitives from justice, and absconding slaves, found an asylum in the territory. Several tribes of Indians, strong in the number of...remarkable for their ferocity, and whose settlements extended to the southern CONDITION OF FLORIDA. 417 limits of the United States, inhabited those provinces.... | |
 | John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...government of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined almost exclusively to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding, on the one side,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...government of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined almost exclusively to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding, on the one side,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 664 pages
...Government of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined almost exclusively to the walls of Pensacola and St. Augustine, within which only...and whose settlements extend to our limits, inhabit those provinces. These different hordes of people, connected together, disregarding, on the one side,... | |
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... to all who have paid the slightest attention to the progress of affairs in that quarter. Throughout the whole of those provinces to which the Spanish title extends, the Government of Spain has scarcely been felt. Its authority has been confined, almost... 
