1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 2 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a letter for Mr. Breckenridge, but as I know not his residence in Kentucky, I will be obliged to you fill up the direction and forward it to him after putting a Wafer in it. I send it to you open as it relates to the order of the day, Louisania. I know not what are your Ideas as to the mode of beginning Government in the ceded country; but as we have thought alike on several subjects...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 23 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favours of the 10. & 18 Ult. reached me at this place on the 14 Inst, also one from Mr. Madison . I do not suppose that the framers of the Constitution thought anything about the acquisition of new territory, and even if they did it was prudent to say nothing about it, as it might have suggested to foreign Nations the Idea that we contemplated foreign Conquest. It appears to me to be...