Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not and could not be official, but are furnished by different individuals as the resu..."

"It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their future protection, and that the ceded country is submitted to the..."

"I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and confinement of Zachariah Cox."

"I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislature in providing for the government of the country."