of the fifteenth Ultimo, to me, as Governor of the State of Georgia — Humanity shudders at the recital of it, and I therefore forbear any comment — I submit it to your feelings, and will only further express that I feel a confidence that Justice will be done to my fellow Citizens, and that this inimical Officer will be removed from this frontier I have the honour to be, Respectfully Hon^ble Yr Ob^t Serv^t James M^cHenry Ja^s Jackson Secretary of War United States Executive Department Louisville Tuesday 4^th December 1798 A petition from a number of the Inhabitants of the County of Richmond, and a communication from the Hon^ble Thomas Peters Carnes one of the Judges of the Superior Courts accompanied with a Certified Copy of the sentence passed by the said Judge at the present Circuit Court in the County afore[undecipherable]