1To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Friend to Liberty", 11 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency will be please to believe I am actuated by the purest motives in transmitting to You the following facts. I was inhabiting New-Orleans about two months before its delivery to the American Government. By that time, I had many opportunities to talk with the then Citizien Laussat who, Knowing my intention of settling myself into that City, entreated me with the most forcible...