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On the recordMarch 21, 1808
I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary and confidential papers herewith inclosed, with such references as that they may be read in their original places as if still standing in them;
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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