If England had seized Louisiana, as Bonaparte feared, the Floridas, cut off from the other colonies of Spain, would certainly have fallen into her hands by easy and prompt negotiation, as they did, a few years later, into the hands of the United States.
Blaine speculates on the consequences if England had seized Louisiana, affecting Florida's fate.
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