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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 880
1838 Nov. 20, GEO[RGE] W. DUNHAM, RICEBORO, [GEORGIA], TO MIRABEAU [BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS
Repeating the inquiry in his letter of Aug. [27] regarding his Texas land scrip. A. L. S. 2 p.
No. 881
1838 Nov. 20, JOHN T. MASON, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK], TO MIRABEAU [BUONAPARTE] LAMAR,. [HOUSTON], TEXAS
Introducing Alphonse de Saligny. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 882
183°8 Nov. 21, H1. McLEOD TO C. A. SEWELL 7
Head Quarters T M
Port Caddo Novr 21st 1838
Mr Charles A. Sewell United States Indian Agent- at Shreveport- Sir ·
Major Genl Rusk has instructed me to inform you, that he has understood from several respectable men, that You have paid, the Caddo Indians, their late annuity due from your Government, in arms, and ammunition. In several recent engagements with that tribe upon the territory of Texas, and in which they made the attack, new U. S. arms have been Found in their-Possession-. The fact that Caddoes have for more than 12 months past, been depra-dating upon the lives and property of the people of Texas, cannot be unknown to you-. Of the express viola- tion of the Treaty of 1833, between Mexico, and the United States, by a subsequent treaty, made by the .U. S. with the Caddoes, requir- ing them to abandon the territory of the U S, you must be equally well aware-, And Sir, that you as the Agent of the United States Government, should, under such circumstances, and with a full knowledge of them, furnish these Savages with the means of murder- ing the defenceless women and children, of Texas, is a matter of the greatest astonishment- · If the obligations of humanity are not sufficient, Surely the pledged faith of the U. S. Government to prevent '_'Hostile incur- sions'' of the Indians into this Country ought, to restrain you, from a traffick which the civilized world holds in abhorrence-
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