 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...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 482by Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces ? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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 independence,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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 independence,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...confederacy any one or more of the Spanish provinces? I candidly confess, that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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
...then held by Mr. Jefferson ? It was this : — " I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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 - Great Britain - 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...fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war." That a war arising... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pages
...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 - 710 pages
...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
...candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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 - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...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...fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war." That a war arising... | |
 | William Windham - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...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...fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war." That a war arising... | |
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