...message to Congress, used this language : " I congratulate yon, fellow-citizens, on the approach of a period at which you may interpose your authority,...withdraw the citizens of the United States from all participation in the violation of human rights which has been so Icng continued on the unoffending...

...of congress, by moderate appropriations, will be requisite'.^ I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, tu withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in tho=c violations of...

...fellow citizens, on the approiCh of the period which you may interpole your authority coniHtutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in thofe violations ofhu* man rights, which have been fo long continued on the unoffending inhabitants...

...Jefferson "congratulated Congress on the approach of the period at which they might interpose their authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all farther participation in those violations of human rights which had so long continued on the unoffending...

...the year 1808. As that time approached, President Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the country from all "further participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa." The act provided for was at once...