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knowing that you will have a multiplicity of business
before you, which will perhaps put it out of your ^power to
deliberate as fully on the subject, on which this letter
is written as I have had an opportunity of doing since
the rise of the Legislature, therefore have taken the
liberty to state my ideas on it, and hope you will
not conceive that I mean to dictate to you in discharging
the duties of your Offices -

I embrace the Occasion to request you to present
me respectfuly to the President.-

And have the honor to be
your Most Obedient Humble servant

signed

John Seveir

The Honorable
William Cocke & Joseph Anderson Senators
and William C C Claiborne Representative
for the State of Tennessee in the
Congress of the United States-