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Thomas Jefferson: “Congress will learn from these papers the present state of the discussion on that transaction, and that it is to be…”

On the recordDecember 6, 1807
Congress will learn from these papers the present state of the discussion on that transaction, and that it is to be transferred to this place by the mission of a special minister.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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