Thomas Jefferson actually said...

I transmit to each House of Congress a copy of the laws of the Territory of Michigan passed by the governor and judges of the Territory duri...

The other parts of the work, which might all have been completed in time, were necessarily retarded by the insufficient progress of the ston...

I took every measure within my power for carrying into effect the request of the House of Representatives of the 17th of April last to cause...

With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished.