It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops the principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would... The United States Democratic Review - Página 231859Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1853 - 636 páginas
...sailing despatch was considered. It will be objected to our receiving Cuba, that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it. Our Spring continues cold and backward, rarely one growing day without two or three cold ones following.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 634 páginas
...sailing despatch was considered. It will be objected to our receiving Cuba, that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it. Our Spring continues cold and backward, rarely one growing .day without two or three cold ones following.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1859 - 362 páginas
...empire and self-government. * * * "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...on the 23d June, 1823, he says: "For certainly her addition to our confederacy is exactly what is wanting to advance our power as a nation to the point... | |
| Christopher Columbus Langdell - 1898 - 538 páginas
...Madison, April 27, 1809, said: "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions: Cuba can be defended by us without a navy," Mr. Everett, in discussing the territorial growth of the United States, used the following language... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1887 - 866 páginas
...John Adams's Works, 631, 63'¡. " It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then bo drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops the principio which ought to limit our views. NothingNíhould ever be accepted which would require a navy... | |
| American Historical Association - 1894 - 626 páginas
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." * A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1894 - 480 páginas
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." ' A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister... | |
| American Bar Association - 1893 - 488 páginas
...to be unwise to annex territory not contiguous to our own. In 1809, Jefferson wrote to Madison : '' Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it." The annexation of territory may fall more appropriately within the province of the law-making than... | |
| American Historical Association - 1894 - 624 páginas
...this to President Madison, that "it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." * A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1894 - 528 páginas
...this to President Madison, that " it will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended...accepted which would require a navy to defend it." ' A few years later, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in his instructions to our minister... | |
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