 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Cuba - 1860 - 412 pages
...interesting addition which could over bo made to our system of states. The control which, with the Florida point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and tha countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as these waters which flow into it, would fill up... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 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 well-being. Yet as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war; and its independence, which... | |
 | James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 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 well-being. Yet as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war; and its independence, which... | |
 | James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 pages
...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...of our political well-being. Yet as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war; and its independence, which... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Mexico - 1867 - 262 pages
...provinces ? I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition that could ever be made to our system of States. The control...of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering thereon, would fill up the measure of our political well-being. Yet as I am sensible that this can... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1868 - 758 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 well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war ; and its independence, which... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 458 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 well being." But, while Jefferson was ambitious in the desire for extending the territorial limits... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 758 pages
...ha»«,,. •"• looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our sysx^m of States. The control which, with Florida Point,...of our political well-being. Yet, as I am sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war ; and its independence, which... | |
 | Christopher Columbus Langdell - Personal property - 1898 - 538 pages
...Cuba as the most interesting addition that could ever be made" to our Union. "The control," he said, "which, with Florida Point, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico and the country and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...this " would be, of course, in the first war." 1 Afterwards, while confessing a longing for Cuba, " as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States," he says that he is " sensible that this can never be obtained, even with her own consent, but by war."... | |
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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... 
