Thomas Jefferson actually said...

If from this sum we deduct the reasonable value of the road ceded through the whole length of their country from Ocmulgee toward New Orleans...

I now lay before the Senate the several treaties and conventions following, which have been entered into on the part of the United States si...

The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing ourselves of it.

These made it a duty to require from that Government indemnifications for our injured citizens.