| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...fill up the measure of our political wellbeing. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war ; and its independence,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet, as 1 am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war — and its... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...into it, would fill up the measure of our political wcllbeing. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1830 - 734 pages
...sort of language was then held by Mr. Jefferson ? It was this : — " I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters now into it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing." Thus he had shown what had been... | |
| William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" 1 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 controul which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries... | |
| William Huskisson - Great Britain - 1831 - 708 pages
...the Gulf of Mexico, and these are the statements which it avows:—" 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 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
...were incorporated. " I candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...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... | |
| 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...fill up the measure of our political well-being." Yet as it could not be obtained without war, and its independence could be secured without it, he would... | |
| 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...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 without war, and... | |
| Literature - 1903 - 848 pages
...acquire to our own confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition...would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Mr. Jefferson goes on to say that he is ready to abandon this dream of the acquisition of Cuba, with... | |
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