United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio. Governor (1790-1796 : Blount)1793-06-17This document is a letter from William Blount (Governor of Tennessee, 1790-1795) to General (Daniel ?) Smith, dated June 17, 1793. Blount states that he has been informed that the President and Secretary of War are awaiting his arrival in order to discuss action against the Indians in the South. He suggests that a full-scale war is the only way to coerce the Indian nations into acting in accordance with the wishes of the U.S. Blount also discusses distributing arms to the frontier settlers.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegths021engManuscript held by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Tennessee Historical Society, box 2, folder n/a, document tl021.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Indians of North America--Government relationsIndians of North America--Warfare[Letter] 1793 June 17, Withe [i.e., Wythe] County, [Virginia ? to] General [Daniel ?] Smith / W[illia]m Blount : a machine-readable transcription of an imageText