Thomas Jefferson: “Would they not be as reasonable and useful where the enterprise preparing is against the United States?”

His high station and the relations of Russia to the predominant powers of Europe must give him weight with them according to the vicissitudes of the war.

$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treason and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them.

I have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willingness to meet his good will.

I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.