Thomas Jefferson actually said...

Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.

I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to lay before the Legisl...

The mass of what I have received in the course of these transactions is voluminous, but little has been given under the sanction of an oath ...

Information now recently communicated has brought us nearly to the period contemplated.