Governor Blount} War Department 14^th May 1792 Sir, Your several favors by Mr. [undecipherable] were received some days past, and submitted to the President of the United States. The affairs being in the train as stated by you it seems unnecessary to reply particularly to your several letters as the hope is indulged of seeing you in this place shortly. But Colonel Winchester who has been here and who has presented a memorial to the President of the United States from the Inhabitants of this district seems to render it necessary to write to you upon the subject of the defense of the [undecipherable] in that quarter. You have been fully informed of the difficulties which have [undecipherable] to prevent the President of the United States from giving orders in consequence of your representations for the most vigorous offensive operations against the hostile Indians. If these difficulties existed while the Congress were in recess, and which it was conceived they alone can remove [undecipherable] in the present case with still greater force for all the information received at the time Congress were in recess were laid before both houses but no order was taken thereon nor