Thomas Jefferson actually said...

Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which sh...

The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely take care of the pos...

I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on.

These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.