...contrary, it will drown the little divisions at present existing there. Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest, from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should take care, too, not to think it for the interest of that great Continent to press too soon...

...territorial expansion. Jefferson wrote as early as 1786, from Paris: "Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should take care, too, not .... to press too soon on the Spaniards. Those countries cannot be in...

...Constitution, Mr. Jefferson had shown the breadth of his view by writing: "Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled." He was fearful at that time lest the Spaniards should be too weak to hold South America. His view on...

...Territory as a tract which must remain a wilderness for at least a century to come, Jefferson viewed our Confederacy "as the nest from which all America, north and south, is to be peopled." 2 While they talked with bated breath of erecting better safeguards against popular tumults, Jefferson...

...Territory as a tract which must remain a wilderness for at least a century to come, Jefferson viewed our Confederacy "as the nest from which all America, north and south, is to be peopled."1 While they talked with bated breath of erecting better safeguards against popular tumults,...

...reached America, that his dreams were at last coming true and that he had been justified in viewing the "Confederacy" as "the nest from which all America,...government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, it being evident that the people of Louisiana had had no voice in the transaction. But,...

...Oregon, and California, surpassed Seward in preaching territorial expansion. With Jefferson, he " viewed the Confederacy as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled." With Benton, he beheld the American people continuing their westward movement until they had fairly...

...federal limits are not too large for good government," and continues : "Our Confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should take care, too, not to think it to the interests of that great continent1 to press too soon...

...Territory as a tract which must remain a wilderness for at least a century to come, Jefferson viewed our Confederacy "as the nest from which all America, north and south, is to be peopled."* While they talked with bated breath of erecting better safeguards against popular tumults, Jefferson...

...Constitution, Mr. Jefferson had shown the breadth of his view by writing: — Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. He was fearful at that time lest the Spaniards should be too weak to hold South America. His view on...