West Florida and Its Relation to the Historical Cartography of the United StatesJohns Hopkins Press, 1898 - 59 էջ |
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West Florida and Its Relation to the Historical Cartography of the United States Henry Edward Chambers Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1898 |
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Էջ 49 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Էջ 47 - That he would give us the Floridas to withhold intercourse with the residue of those colonies cannot be doubted. But that is no price, because they are ours in the first moment of the first war, and until a war they are of no particular necessity to us. But, although with difficulty, he will consent to our receiving Cuba into our Union, to prevent our aid to Mexico and the other provinces. That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba and inscribe...
Էջ 45 - I asked the minister (Talleyrand) what were the east bounds of the territory ceded to us ? He said he did not know ; we must take it as they had received it. I asked him how Spain meant to give them possession ? He said, according to the words of the treaty...
Էջ 51 - Now it was stipulated in her treaty of the year 1801 that the acquisition of Louisiana by France was a retrocession, that is to say that Spain restored to France what she had received from her in 1762. At that period she had received the territory bounded on the east by the Mississippi, the river Iberville, the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain the same day France ceded to England by the preliminaries of peace all the territory to the eastward.
Էջ 218 - States, extend from the Atlantic, on the east, to the Mississippi, on the west; and from the great lakes, on the north, to Lakes Maurepas, Pontchartrain, and Borgne, and the Gulf of Mexico, on the south.
Էջ 46 - Now, Sir, the sum of this business is, to recommend to you, in the strongest terms, after having obtained the possession that the French commissary will give you, to insist upon this as a part of your right, and to take possession, at all events, to the river Perdido. I pledge myself that your right is good ; and, after the explanations that have been given here, you need apprehend nothing from a decisive measure.
Էջ 234 - considering the strict and close alliance which subsists between His Majesty's Government and that of Spain, to express to the Government of the United States, through you, the deep regret with which I have seen that part of the President's message to Congress, in which the determination of this government to take possession of West Florida is avowed.