 | 1882 - 916 էջ
...with it, I am convinced it would be folly to persist in trying to keep it I commission you, therefore, to negotiate this affair with the envoys of the United States. Do not wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe, but go this very day and confer with Mr. Livingston. Remember, however,... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 700 էջ
...reservation. I know the value of what I abandon. I renounce it with the gravest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this affair with the envoy of the United States. Do not .even wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe. Have an interview this very... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1885 - 674 էջ
...Spain had for its object its recovery. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it, would be folly. I direct you to negotiate...arrival of Mr. Monroe ; have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require a great deal of money for this war, and I would not like to commence... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1856 - 614 էջ
...with Spain had for its object the recovery of it. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate...with the envoys of the United States. Do not even wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe : have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingstone. But I require... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1887 - 376 էջ
...whole colony, without any reservation. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate...arrival of Mr. Monroe ; have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require a great deal of money for this [English] war, and I would not like... | |
 | Nathaniel Pitt Langford - 1890 - 286 էջ
...Spain had for its object its recovery. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this affair with the euvoys of the United States. Do not even await the arrival of Mr. Munroe : — have an interview this... | |
 | Nathaniel Pitt Langford - 1893 - 490 էջ
...Spain had for its object its recovery. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate...of Mr. Monroe : — have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require a great deal of money for this war, and I would not like to commence... | |
 | Binger Hermann, United States. General Land Office - 1898 - 140 էջ
...only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole coloity without any reservation. * * * To attempt to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this offer with the envoys of the United States. * * * I will be moderate in consideration of the necessity... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 808 էջ
...for its object its recovery. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retail it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this...arrival of Mr. Monroe ; have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require a great deal of money for this war, and I would not like to commence... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1899 - 696 էջ
...had for its obiect the recovery of it. I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate...this affair with the envoys of the United States.' "A treaty of purchase was agreed upon by which the United States was to acquire not only New Orleans... | |
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I renounce it with the greatest regret. To attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this affair with the envoys of the United States. 
