Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"The governor and presiding judge of the Territory of Michigan have made a report to me of the state of that Territory, several matters in which being within the reach of the legislative authority only..."

"If from this sum we deduct the reasonable value of the road ceded through the whole length of their country from Ocmulgee toward New Orleans, a road of indispensable necessity to us, the present conve..."

"I now lay before the Senate the several treaties and conventions following, which have been entered into on the part of the United States since their last session."

"On these several treaties I have to request that the Senate will advise whether I shall ratify them or not."