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

On the recordJanuary 21, 1807
Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy

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