Thomas Jefferson actually said...

It is a great consolation that it will become known at a moment when the supreme council of the nation is assembled at its post, and ready t...

a full pardon is hereby proclaimed to each and all of such individuals as shall within four months from the date hereof surrender themselves...

hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications...

Whereas great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States form an extraordinary occasion for conveni...