Thomas Jefferson actually said...

It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that...

This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the embargo by the Execut...

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for publication, yet necessary...