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Thomas Jefferson: “I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 1807
I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to lay before the Legislature the termination as well as the beginning and progress of this scene of depravity so far as it has been acted on the Ohio and its waters.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Message to Congress on the Burr Conspiracy

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