 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...to 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political wcllbeing.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...to 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1830 - 734 pages
...what 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters now into it, would fill up the measure of our political wellbeing."... | |
 | 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.... | |
 | William Huskisson - Great Britain - 1831 - 708 pages
...Cuba and 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...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 - 1831 - 708 pages
...Cuba and 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...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
...Floridas were incorporated. " I candidly confess," said Jefferson to president Monroe, in 1823, " that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting...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 - 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.... | |
 | 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being."... | |
 | 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...Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.... | |
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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... 
