Thomas Jefferson said...

such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...

Believing that the confidence and union of our fellow-citizens at the present crisis will be still further confirmed by ...

hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and reti...

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...