Thomas Jefferson actually said...

Duty has required me to submit these views to the judgment of the Legislature, but as their disclosure might embarrass and defeat their effe...

These springs are said to possess the advantage of being accompanied with a bed of coal.

In the strengthening and gratifying of these wants I see the only prospect of planting on the Mississippi itself the means of its own safety...

Indeed, it would be the most proper and acceptable form in which the annuity could be paid which we propose to give them for the cession.