Thomas Jefferson actually said...

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...

I have thought it proper to communicate to Congress the letter detailing this incident, that they may fully understand the state of things i...

We have no information of this letter but through the channel of the party interested in the ship, nor any proof of it more authentic than t...