Thomas Jefferson actually said...

From the Territories of Orleans, Louisiana, and Michigan complete returns have not yet been received.

As far as appears from our records, none were ever rendered from either of these States.

It was reasonably expected that while the limits between the territories of the United States and of Spain were unsettled neither party woul...

Unwilling to take any measures which might preclude a peaceable accommodation of differences, the officers of the United States were ordered...