 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | François marquis de Barbé-Marbois - Louisiana - 1830 - 468 pages
...against France. See Ap- . pendix, No. 18. Mr. Jefferson also wrote to Mr. Livingston, as follows: — "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind, if they do not see this : and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low- water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind, if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident.if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...completely negative the charge of partiality to France, which has been so often imputed to him : " The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind, if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession of New-Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her lowwater mark. It seals... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 618 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 620 pages
...position. They, as well as we. must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis....sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession... | |
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The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment... 
