Thomas Jefferson actually said...

But this demand has been pressed in verbal conferences much more explicitly and pertinaciously than appears in the written correspondence.

The first application by the ambassador for restitution of the vessels taken in violation of blockade having been yielded to,

after which the inference is obvious that a renewal of the presents is to be expected to renew the prolongation of peace for another term.

The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of a convention between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, concluded at...