1From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 9th. inst. proposing a stipulation for the abolition of the practice of privateering in times of war. The benevolence of this proposition is worthy of the nation from which it comes, and our sentiments on it have been declared in the treaty to which you are pleased to refer, as well as in some others which have been proposed. There are in...