 The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement. It gave a new face to politics, and ranked in historical importance next to the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution...  The Iowa Historical Record - Page 39edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 476 pages
...the United States government get so much for BO little. The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement ; it gave a new...Independence and the adoption of the Constitution, — events of which it was the logical outcome ; but as a matter of diplomacy it was unparallelled,... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 484 pages
...the United States government get so much for so little. The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement ; it gave a new face to politics, and ranked in historical im^ portance next to the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution, — events... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh - 1893 - 138 pages
...government was authorized for the newly acquired territory. " The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement; it gave a new face...importance next to the Declaration of Independence." — (Henry Adams, Hist, of US Vol. II, page 49.) * US Stat. at Large, Vol. II, 743. " I say apparently... | |
 | State Historical Society of Iowa - 1895 - 314 pages
...of Louisiana was purchased by the United States. To America at large this purchase was "an event so portentous as to defy measurement; it gave a new face...importance next to the Declaration of Independence." While to the future commonweath of Iowa the acquisition had a no less serious significance: since through... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1905 - 1454 pages
...a town and its inconsiderable territory, a vast portion of America was in OFFICIAL SEAL AND MARKER importance next to the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution." The taking possession at New Orleans involved an unique order of proceedings. First the Spanish authorities... | |
 | Binger Hermann, United States. General Land Office - 1898 - 140 pages
...efforts, achieved one of the greatest triumphs in the world's history, and which, one historian writes, "ranked in historical importance next to the Declaration...Independence and the adoption of the Constitution." It well justified the boast of Livingston as he placed his name to the treaty of cession, and rising... | |
 | 1899 - 662 pages
...acquisition of the whole province by the United States. To America at large this was "an event so portentious as to defy measurement ; it gave a new face to politics,...fell heir to the institutions of the Common Law of England. The constitutional or governmental history of the Louisiana country under its new political... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 pages
...the United States government get so much for so little. The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement. It gave a new face...Independence and the adoption of the Constitution, — events of which it was the logical outcome ; but as a matter of diplomacy it was unparalleled,... | |
 | United States. General Land Office, Binger Hermann - 1900 - 134 pages
...efforts, achieved one of the greatest triumphs in the world's history, and which, one historian writes, "ranked in historical importance next to the Declaration...Independence and the adoption of the Constitution." It well justified the boast of Livingston as he placed his name to the treaty of cession, and rising... | |
 | 1902 - 510 pages
...the United States government get so much for so little. The annexation of Louisiana was an event so portentous as to defy measurement. It gave a new face...Independence and the adoption of the Constitution, — events of which it was the logical outcome ; but as a matter of diplomacy it was unparalleled,... | |
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