[Illegible Text notice — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically] [address panel:] [undecipherable] To The President of the United States M^r [undecipherable] & [endorsement at right margin, written vertically:] [undecipherable: Savannah] 22 [undecipherable] State of Tennessee [undecipherable] County [undecipherable]ber [undecipherable] Sir, [undecipherable] I have [but?] time to inform You that a large number of Respectable Citizens of the State of Tennessee are found [undecipherable] within the Limits of the Indian Claims [undecipherable] require that I Should Speak to you in plain and decided language when I [last?] had the honor to converse with [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] on the Subject, I felt myself high[undecipherable] pleased at the [undecipherable] you then gave me that you would take the matter under your Serious consideration and not [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of your deliberation from the [undecipherable] you then [undecipherable] yourself [undecipherable] a very [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] produced a decision favorable to the People interested with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to them what had, [undecipherable] and Surprise I have [undecipherable] an Order from G[undecipherable] [undecipherable] met the People to [undecipherable] to Remove from him [undecipherable] by the 25^th of October: it will not be embarrassing to make To the President that the People of the State of Tennessee know that they are not entirely governed by Military Laws that no Citizen can be deprived of his properties for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] without full Compensation, and that the Courts Judicial are [undecipherable] to decide all questions of Right according to the Constitution [&] Laws of our Country, Sir [undecipherable] to me to make those Remarks [undecipherable] as the Constitution [undecipherable] Warrant them and as my [undecipherable] Citizens are [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] contrary to Law as a number of them [undecipherable] their Legal [undecipherable] to the Land in question I submit to [undecipherable] direction [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] not [undecipherable: countermanded] [undecipherable] at a time [when?] Congress hath had [undecipherable] before them and hath [undecipherable]. For further consideration I am Sir with great Esteem & Esteem Yours &c [undecipherable: John Cooke?]