1To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "Shiloh", 11 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My original design was that the following & inclosed papers should have met you in the form of Newspaper Publications or printed handbills—but such is your boasted liberty of the Press, that even the federal printers would not dare to publish the truth for me without disguise—they are afraid of persecution for a libel & tell me that the truth of a publication is no justification of the...