Cuba lies at our doors. It commands the approach to the Gulf of Mexico, which washes the shores of five of our States. It bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the North American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest... Biography of Millard Fillmore - Page 194by Ivory Chamberlain, Thomas Moses Foote - 1856 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 852 pages
...American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest gystem of internal water-communication in the world. It keeps watch at the door-way of our...belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance of the Thames and the Seine, and the United States should propose a convention like this to France... | |
| United States. Department of State - Cuba - 1853 - 28 pages
...American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water-communication in the world. It keeps watch at the door-way of our...belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance of the Thames and the Seine, and the United States should propose a convention like this to France... | |
| Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 942 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the North American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water...belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance of the Thames and the Seine, and the United States should propose a convention like this to France... | |
| Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 938 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the North American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water communication in the world. It keeps wateh at the door-way of our intercourse with California by the Isthmus route. If an island like Cuba,... | |
| W. L. Barre - Presidents - 1856 - 424 pages
...which drains half the North American continent, and, with its tributaries, forms the largest system of water communication in the world; it keeps watch at...of our intercourse with California by the Isthmus. If an island like Cuba, belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance to the Thames, or the... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1868 - 948 pages
...bars the entrance to that great river which drains half the North American continent, and, with its tributaries, forms the largest system of internal...intercourse with California, by the isthmus route/' &c. 5th. And a closing reason against the acceptance of the proposition is found in the fact, that... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the North American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water...belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance of the Thames and the Seine, and the United States should propose a convention like this to France... | |
| HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the Forth American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water...belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded the entrance of the Thames and the Seine, and the United States should propose a convention like this to France... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half tho North American continent, and with its tributaries forms the largest system of internal water communication in the world. It keeps watch at tho doorway of our intercourse with California by the Isthmus route. If an island like Cuba, belonging... | |
| Wendell Phillips, Plutarco González y Torres - Cuba - 1869 - 52 pages
...bars the entrance of that great river which drains half the North American continent, and, with its tributaries, forms the largest system of internal...United States should propose a convention like this to France and England, those powers would assuredly feel that the disability assumed by ourselves was... | |
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