...countries. " But, still," added the President, " we should consider New Orleans and the Floridas no equivalent for the risk of a quarrel with France produced by her vicinage." At this time the rumor prevailed that Florida also had been ceded to France ; which proved to be not...

...for countervailing such an operation by arrangements in another quarter. Still we should consider N. Orleans and the Floridas as equivalent for the risk...of a quarrel with France produced by her vicinage. I have no doubt you have urged these considerations on every proper occasion with the government where...

...by arrangements in another quarter. But still we should consider New Orleans and the Floridas as no equivalent for the risk of a quarrel with France produced by her vicinage. . . . Every eye in the United States is now fixed on the affairs of Louisiana. Perhaps nothing since...

...the struggle for independence, and the affection he had hitherto entertained for added, " we snould consider New Orleans and the Florid,as as equivalent...altogether her contemplated occupation of Louisiana. Hold language this, but language that would have had no effect whatever upon the unshakable Napoleon...

...mouth of the Mississippi, he says: "But still we should consider New Orleans and the Floridas as no equivalent for the risk of a quarrel with France produced by her vicinage." His disturbance of mind evidently did not arise alone from the danger of the French occupation of the...