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On the recordMarch 3, 1805
My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary and confidential papers herewith inclosed, with such references as that they may be read in their original places as if still standing in them;

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The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.

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I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.

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