 | Albert Edward Winship - 1903 - 196 頁
...political relations of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course. . . . There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained... | |
 | M. Mark Stolarik - 1988 - 220 頁
...dispatched a minister to France to purchase New Orleans, was imagining another destiny for the city: There is on the globe one single spot the possessor...our whole produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants.5 Because the city's location near the mouth of the Mississippi River gave it a commanding... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1992 - 377 頁
...Orleans held out a serious threat to the integrity of the union. As Jefferson summarized the danger: There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eights of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more... | |
 | Martin L. Fausold, Alan Shank - 1991 - 360 頁
...into "our natural and habitual enemy," the inevitable status of any vigorous foreign power possessing New Orleans, "through which the produce of three-eighths...its fertility it will ere long yield more than half our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants." With typical hyperbole, Jefferson declared... | |
 | Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, William L. Lang - 1991 - 484 頁
...leaders, clearly understood the French threat. Of New Orleans in French hands, he wrote the famous words: "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy." Jefferson moved shrewdly and decisively to meet this critical situation. He sent special envoy James... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 1994 - 228 頁
...Jefferson decided to turn the screws. He informed Livingston, in an open letter sent by way of a friend, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy," he wrote. "It is New Orleans. . . . France placing herself in that door assumes to us the attitude... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 頁
...hesitate then what language to hold. "There is on the globe," he wrote to Mr. Livingston at Paris, "one single spot the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction,... | |
 | Stephen M. Walt - 1996 - 388 頁
...12-13. 32 In a letter to the US minister in France (intended for French eyes as well), Jefferson wrote, "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans." He added, "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans . . . from that day on we must marry... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - 1997 - 592 頁
...message echoed this call in the midst of the embargo, November 8, 1808, Works, Vol. 11, p. 71. 53. "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her... | |
 | Frank L. Owsley, Gene Allen Smith - 1997 - 264 頁
...difference." But despite the bonds of friendship and the historic ties that linked the two together, he knew, "there is on the globe one single spot, the possessor...natural and habitual enemy." "It is New Orleans," he professed, "through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and... | |
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There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market... 
