Thomas Jefferson actually said...

Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exercise the authority i...

Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, overspread the ocean wit...

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for publication, yet necessary...

We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fellow citizens in gen...