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On the recordJanuary 21, 1807
The mass of what I have received in the course of these transactions is voluminous, but little has been given under the sanction of an oath so as to constitute formal and legal evidence.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy

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