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To His Excellency JOHN SEVIER
Governer of the state of Tennessee

At a time when evils of a serious nature threaten the pu
public Prosperity, we are compelled by self preservation
to turn our attention toward the proper source of portection
The constitution and the voice of the people, having invested
your excellency with the power of convening the legislatore, we
respectfully submit to your consideration the propriety of
of exercising that important preogative at this time.

We presume it's to be well known to your excellency, that at
the period when the political establishments of our common
-wealth were brought into existence the state was in its infancy;
its inhabitants has but lateley imigrated from various
state, nations, prejudices and political opinions better suited
to thier old, than their new abode; these states had but recent
-ly emerged from British oppression; the people had been so
zealously employed in resisting foreign aggressions and
savage depredations, that they had ^not sufficantly reflected
on the impropriety, the unfitness, and the destructive
consequences which would attend the adoption of the
political institution, laws and maxims of that corrupt
and tirannical goverment, from whose devouring grasp
they had escaped with toil and bloodshed. Experience had
not then taught them to substitute theories more conge-
-nial with their interest and convenience, and unnatural im-
-itation of their ancient goverment were incorporated into
their political fabric which destroys its beauty and utility
Our d Judiciary system in particuler is found by experience
to be oppressive inconvenient and inefficatious, to the
almost universal disapprobation of the theory and prac-
tice of that branch of our goverment, which has been gra-
dually manifesting itself for years, has by lat discussion
and publications become so general that in our humble
opinion it merits the attention of the legislature. A period of
public peace and domestic quietness like the present appears
most appropriate, in which to effect such salutary changes
in our political institution, as experience has pointed
out to be necessary: Should they be omitted till another year
it is to be feared that accumulation of other business or per-
haps the contagion of war being caught from Europe
interfere and prevent the desired improvements.
Another consideration of weight and more urgent necessity arises
from the political situation of ^the general government