Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished. Andrew Jackson - Page 69by William Graham Sumner - 1899 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...General Jackson had written to President Monroe, ' through any channel, that the possession of die Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished.' This seemed to be an important gain to the South, but mark the retribution that followed! The annexation... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 686 pages
...without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say, Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...States, and in sixty days it •will be accomplished." General Jackson dwells, in his " Exposition" of this matter, upon the fact that Mr. Calhouu was the... | |
| James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 496 pages
...without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say, Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." General Jackson dwells, in his " Exposition " of this matter, upon the fact that Mr. Calhoun was the... | |
| James Parton - United States - 1877 - 500 pages
...Let it be signified to me through any channel (say, Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Florida* would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." General Jackson dwells, in his " Exposition " of this matter, upon the fact that Mr. Calhoun was the... | |
| James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 518 pages
...without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say, Mr. J. Rhea) that the• possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United Slates, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." General Jackson dwells, in his " Exposition " of... | |
| Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 1764 pages
...of January, 1818, this sentence : "Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." And says : "What reply did President Monroe make to the letter ? Jackson and his partisans claimed... | |
| William Graham Sumner - History - 1882 - 458 pages
...Georgia. He wrote to President Monroe : " Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...a year afterwards, when some reference was made to it. Jackson construed the orders which he received from Calhoun with reference to this letter. He also... | |
| William Graham Sumner - 1882 - 422 pages
...Georgia. He wrote to President Monroe : " Let it be signified to me through tiny channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...ill when it reached Washington, and he did not see 01 read it until a year afterward?, when some reference was made to it. Jackson construed the orders... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1885 - 568 pages
...signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would bo desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished."* This singular epistle, which indicated on the general's part a personal wish to carry the war into... | |
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