 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 808 páginas
...Calhoun, are too well known to need recital. "Let it be signified to me through any channel," says Mr. J. Rhea, "that the possession of the Floridas...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished. ' ' President Monroe was sick in bed when the letter arrived. It was referred to Mr. Calhoun, secretary... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - 1899 - 520 páginas
...wrote to President Monroe": " "Let it be signi- \ fied to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea 1) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Much was afterwards made to depend on this letter. Monroe was ill when it reached Washington, and he... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1900 - 700 páginas
...out without implicating the United States. "Let it be signified to me that the province of Florida would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." When the order to assume command reached Jackson, he raised a volunteer force in Tennessee from among... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1900 - 174 páginas
...scene. Impatient as ever with the Spaniards, he wrote to President Monroe : " Let it be sig nified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of Florida would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Monroe... | |
 | 1904 - 440 páginas
...take command in Georgia. Before he had received his marching orders he wrote to President Monroe : '"Let it be signified to me through any channel (say...to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished."1 His orders, now on the way, were to proceed to the seat of war and take command, observing... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 778 páginas
...He wrote at once to President Monroe, " Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. John Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Mr. Rhea was a representative from Tennessee, a confidential friend of both Jackson and Monroe. The... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 446 páginas
...He wrote at once to President Monroe, " Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. John Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Mr. Rhea was a representative from Tennessee, a confidential friend of both Jackson and Monroe. The... | |
 | Elmer Hewitt Capen - 1902 - 258 páginas
...President Monroe : ' ' Let it be signified to me through any channel that the possession of Florida would be desirable to the United States and in sixty days it will be accomplished." Even without orders, or an intimation from the government, he violated every principle of international... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1902 - 638 páginas
...seized, "and held as an indemnity for the outrages of Spain upon the property of our citizens. . . . Let it be signified to me through any channel, say Mr. J. Rhea," — he was a member of Congress from Tennessee, — "that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1903 - 392 páginas
...Georgia to protect that state. In December, 1817, he wrote to Monroe, saying, " Let it be signified to me that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable...States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished." This course he urged, " as an indemnity for the outrages of Spain upon the property of our citizens."... | |
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This can be done without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished. 
