 | 1859 - 424 pages
...receiving Cnba that no limit can then be drawn to onr future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by ns without a navy, and this develops the principle which ought to limit onr views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it." Again, in writing... | |
 | Christopher Columbus Langdell - 1898 - 538 pages
...been made according to treaty.'' Mr. Jefferson, in writing to President Madison, April 27, 1809, said: "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1887 - 876 pages
...purchase. That the purchase of Louisiana was approved by John Adams, sec 9 John Adams's Works, 631, 632. " 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... | |
 | Francis Griffith Newlands - 1895 - 580 pages
...constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-goverument. • » • It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no...can then be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba cati be defended by as without a navy, and this develops the principle which ought to limit our views.... | |
 | Nathan C. Green - 1896 - 532 pages
...been made according to treaty." Mr. Jefferson, in writing to President Madison, April 27, 1809, said: "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no...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... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1900 - 1250 pages
...a ne plus ultra as to us in that direction. We should then have only to include the north (Canada) in our confederacy, which would be of course in the...this develops the principle which ought to limit our view. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it." Second. "THE ELECTION... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1898 - 1322 pages
...have only the north to include in our confederacy, which would be, of coarse, in the first war. * * " It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no...this develops the principle which ought to limit our views.1 President Madison expressed liis views on the Cuban question in a letter to William Piukney... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1898 - 1304 pages
...have only the north to include in our confederacy, which would be, of course, in the first war. * * * It will be, objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn toour future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops the principle... | |
 | 1898 - 1186 pages
...the southernmost limit of Cuba, and inscribe on it ne plus ultra as to us in that direction;" and: "Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops a principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy... | |
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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 view. Nothing should ever be accepted which would... 
