 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...the price of what I abandon. 1 renounce it with the greatest regret: to attempt obstinately to retain it, would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this...with the envoys of the United States; do not even wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe; have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require... | |
 | François marquis de Barbé-Marbois - Louisiana - 1830 - 468 pages
...object 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...I require a great deal of money for this war, and 1 would not like to commence it with new contributions. For . a hundred years France and Spain have... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 688 pages
...the price of what I abandon. I renounce it with the greatest regret: to attempt obstinately to retain it, would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this...with the envoys of the United States; do not even wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe; have an interview this very day with Mr. Livingston. But I require... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1831 - 692 pages
...the price of what I abandon. 1 renounce it with the greatest regret: to attempt obstinately to retain it, would be folly. I direct you to negotiate this affair with tlie envoys of the United States; do not even wait the arrival of Mr. Monroe; have an interview this... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...without any reservation. I direct you to negociate this affair with the envoys of the United States. 1 require a great deal of money for this war, and I...would not like to commence it with new contributions. If I should regulate my terms according to the value of these vast regions to the United States, the... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony without any reservation. I direct you to negotiate this affair with the envoys of the United States. I require a great deal of money for this war, and I would not like to commence it with new contributions.... | |
 | E. Bunner - Louisiana - 1842 - 276 pages
...it, I am convinced it would be a 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,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 674 pages
...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...hundred years France and Spain have been incurring expenses for improvements in Louisiana, for which its trade has never indemnified them. Large sums,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 666 pages
...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...hundred years France and Spain have been incurring expenses for improvements in Louisiana, for which its trade has never indemnified them, Large sums,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 676 pages
...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...war, and I would not like to commence it with new The treaty of cession* was signed on the 30th of April. Louisiana was transferred to the United States,... | |
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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. Do not even await the arrival of Mr. Monroe; have an interview this very day with Mr.... 
