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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
than Six presentments were had against him at the last term of the Superior Court.- With every wish for your health
Happiness and Successful Administration. I have the Honor to be Most Respectfully, yours.-
D. II. Campbell.
[Addressed] Genl. M:irabau B. Lamar. President Elect of the Republic of Texas. City of IIouston.
[Endorsed]
D. H. Campbell . Houston Cty 22 Oct 38 Report of Indian murJer &e
No. 846
1838 Oct. 22, II. McLEOD TO M. B. LA,11AR
Nacogdoches October 22nd 1838
Dr General
You have doubtless heard of the Mexican & Indian diffi- culties that have occured in this section of [the] country as they transpired- I have written you twice on the Subject, & would have done so oftener, but the only reply I have been honoured with from you, was a mere passing reference to me, in a letter to the General (Rusk)- The trouble ceased apparently with the dispersion of the Mexi- cans-the Tndians as usual professing peace-The l\Iexicans were reported to have gone to Matamoras- About 2 weeks since how- ever they made their reappearance by an attack in conjunction· with a large party of Indians upon the upper settlement of this County at a place called the Saline 75 miles north, west, on the Neches- killing & capturing together about 25 persons- They also made several attacks upon .a force posted at Fort Houston (on the Trinity) not upon the Fort but upon their foraging & scouting parties-on the 10th Inst, Genl Rusk called out the l\Iilitia of this County (after waiting two or three days for requisitions of men from Shelby-& San Augustine, who refused to come) amonnting to 150 men, which increased on the march to 230- and took the field thro' the Chero- kee nation-Big Mush their civil chief & most influential man, wrote to the Genl when he heard of his arrival-his letter was dated "4 miles from home •in the woods' '-'Die substance of the letter was that most of the Indian tribes around ns had taken up arms against us, & had threatened his life for burying the Tomahawk in the other outbreak-(The names of these tribes & such statistics of them as I can obtain, I will give you fully hereafter)-Bowles their war chief (Cherokee's) also sent a talk- The amount of his was fright- Bowles was packing up his plunder, & said it was because he did not know at what moment they would attack & kill him- The General resolved to move on at once after the enemy, seeing that a victory was necessary to give the people breathing time, & confidence- he did not march direct to the Saline, as he feared they would perceive his .approach & retire before him- he marched
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