Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.
Thomas Jefferson: “Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.”
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Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy
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