Thomas Jefferson said...

The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public...

It is understood to have been a shoal or elevation of the bottom of the river adjacent to the bank of the suburbs of St....

I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them ...

The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of militar...