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State of Tennessee - Knoxville 6th February 1798

His Excellency
the president of the United States.}

Sir

In a letter of this day from the Honble David Campble
Esquire one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and
equity in this State, he complains that on the third Instant
about ten oClock at night on his own premisses, and not
within the Indian line, he was Arrested by two of Colonel
Butlers officers, and conducted as a prisoner to his containment ^and I am informed
and ^there detained until the next day before he was
liberated -

permit me sir, with all due deferance [sic]
to observe that no act hostile to the general government
has been committed or attempted by the State of Tennessee,
nor can any transaction of the our Government, warrant
the imputation of any thing of the kind, in the most light
our laws are sufficiently wholesome and [?], and
also faithfully administered in a manner fully competant [sic]
and adequate, to the suppression of every kind of penal