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Columbia September 5^th 1820

To his Excellency the Governor of Tennessee

From the tender and fatherly care
with which you watch over the rights and interests of the most
humble and obscure of your people, I can not I am persuaded
do you a more acceptable service than by pointing out to
you the notice of your Excellency one who is on every
account worthy and deserving of patronage. Such a
one I pledge myself to your Excellency is M^r James
Scott who applies to your excellency for the pro-tem
appointment of Attorney General in the lower Circuit
M^r Scott read some time in my office and thereby
afforded me an opportunity of becoming well acquainted
with his principles and pretentions. and I have no
hesitation in assuring your Excellency that he is a gentleman
of unbelemished characer, of good capacity, tolerated
acquirements, and unceasing industry. and that I beleive [sic]
him to be quallified to fill the office of attorney General
If it should accord with your excellencys views to confer that
appointment on M^r Scott you will at the same time
impose a lasting obligation on one who entertains