 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 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...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, which... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 1831 - 716 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... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...calling itself Holy." As to any acquisition to ourselves, he admits that he has ever looked on Cuba "as the most interesting addition which could ever be...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 prefer... | |
 | William Windham - 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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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... 
