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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
in the upper Counties I am Led to believe-Row got but 10-Votes in the two Counties l\Iy Dear General the people Look to You as their Saviour,_and They have the most unbounded Confidence in Your Integrity S'tates. manship & in the Belief that You have Every Qualification To do all for the Country that any man on Earth Can do I shall if I can, Visit You before the Session of Congress; but I have neglected my private affairs, much to my Injury, the Rub is over and (unless it is Your desire that I should visit You sooner I shall try and Close up my business and arrange it So that I can leve it in the hands of others, have the Kindness to Remember me to l\fr. & Mrs. ·Wilkins, & accept of my best wishes For Your happiness
Trulr Your Devoted frien[d] S. H. Ev.critt [rubric]
[Addressed]
[Endorsed]
Hon. M. B. Lamar Houston Texas
S. H. Everitt.
Sept. 12th 1838 Political
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1838 Sept. 14, A. S. THRUSTON TO ~L B. LA~IAR
Dwr Genl
San Augustine
Sept. 14th 1838 Since I wrote you last nothing of Intrcst has Occurred, all things arc quiet; an express from Genl. Rusk of today. sa,ys that thirty six Kickapoo Indians with two chiefs arc in, that they arc 97 and swear friendship, that they arc much afraid of the ·whites, they asked written permission to hunt. and to be freed from laws: the Boloxies are also fricrrdly, save some few who are with the renegade l\Iexi- cans, the latter are dispersed some tis thought have gone, gone to Matamoras, Norris and Cordoway rcordova], the leaders are near Shreveport on Red river; others high upon the Sabine, it seems, that they scattered to the four winds,- The Indians I am satisfied a•re friendly disposed, and will continue so, committing Occasionally, retaliatory depredations, which they will continue to do so as long as the whites impudently molest them; I was at first seriC'nsly apprehensive, that ,ye were to have trouble, from a union of the Indi:ms and l\Icxicans, but am satisfied tlrnt the[y] have been and will be deterred, the promptness with which some 800 or thousand troops took the field alarmmed them.- I am decidedly in favor of putting to death, the leaders of the disturbers, it should be done promptly-It will have a wholesome and happy effect, the Indians we a,rc to [be] relieved [ ?] of I think by treaty, it is unquestionably the policy of the Country, when the time shall arrive, to treat with them upon amicable and equitable terms, we have them and must deal with them as a necessary evil; you may rely upon it Sir, if they had united as, twas at first said "'Thruston aparently omitted a word here; perhaps "peaceful."
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