Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate for their advice."

"I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification."

"These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if their own convenience should ever dispose them to cede their lands on the Missis..."

"The result has been an acquisition of so much only of what would have been acceptable as extends from the neighborhood of Saguina Bay to the Miami of the Lakes, with a prospect of soon obtaining a bre..."