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Knoxville 5 February 1798

Sir

Your favor of the ult January I had the pleasure
of receiving a few days since - It is with sincere
pleasure satisfaction I receive your information that there is a prospect
of relief being obtained from for the suffering frontier
Citizens; I hope it may be in time, for the people
to return to make their crops, and also enable them
to take care of their stocks which is in a very perishing
condition, by reasing ^reason of being compelled to leave their
farms and of course their provisions. I hope
speedy and effectual relief provision will be afforded made
which I trust will do away the clamors not only
^of the people of this State, but several others, which I am sorry
to inform you has become general; surely there
never was an Instance of ^such mistaken policy in