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" It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops the principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would... "
The United States Democratic Review - Page 23
1859
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 636 pages
...sailing despatch was considered. It will be objected to our receiving Cuba, that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it. Our Spring continues cold and backward, rarely one growing day without two or three cold ones following....
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...sailing despatch was considered. It will be objected to our receiving Cuba, that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it. Our Spring continues cold and backward, rarely one growing .day without two or three cold ones following....
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1859 - 362 pages
...empire and self-government. * * * "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...on the 23d June, 1823, he says: "For certainly her addition to our confederacy is exactly what is wanting to advance our power as a nation to the point...
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A Selection of Cases on Sales of Personal Property: With ..., Volume 1

Christopher Columbus Langdell - Personal property - 1898 - 538 pages
...Madison, April 27, 1809, said: "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions: Cuba can be defended by us without a navy," Mr. Everett, in discussing the territorial growth of the United States, used the following language...
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A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from ..., Volume 1

Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 866 pages
...John Adams's Works, 631, 63'ˇ. " It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then bo drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops the principio which ought to limit our views. NothingNíhould ever be accepted which would require a navy...
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." * A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister...
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The Yale Review, Volume 2

George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 480 pages
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." ' A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister...
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Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including ..., Volume 16

American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1893 - 488 pages
...to be unwise to annex territory not contiguous to our own. In 1809, Jefferson wrote to Madison : '' Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it." The annexation of territory may fall more appropriately within the province of the law-making than...
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 624 pages
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." * A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister...
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The Yale Review, Volume 2

George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 528 pages
...this to President Madison, that " it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." ' A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister...
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