Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not and could not be official, but are furnished by different individuals as the resu..."

"It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their future protection, and that the ceded country is submitted to the..."

"From the nature of the transaction some documents relative to it might have been expected from the War Office."

"A translation of the most important laws in force in that province, now in press, shall be the subject of a supplementary communication."