Thomas Jefferson actually said...

If from this sum we deduct the reasonable value of the road ceded through the whole length of their country from Ocmulgee toward New Orleans...

I now lay before the Senate the several treaties and conventions following, which have been entered into on the part of the United States si...

To their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue, and will pursue with sincere zeal that which they shall approve.

The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing ourselves of it.