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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
it will stop God only knows, It may be demanded· what cau be done for it is said the men cannot go from the Settlement for want of provisions and that the Troops cannot stay in the settlement only so long as the corn and beef [of] the same lasts when they ar_e compe [lledJ to leave them without the means [of] subsistance and without protecti [on] What then is to be done in th [is] case, all say something must be done and I say so too lbut it is with great difidence that I attempt to hint your Excellency what I think sho(u]ld .be ·done, we cannot check the indians unless we follow them to there place of rendevous or where they have their familys and visit them with the same kind of warfare that they give us, we should spare neither age sect nor condition for they do not I know it will be said this is barberous and too much like the savage And it certainly is harsh but it is the only means in my view that will put them down and as such should be resorted to. The plan of calling on the country for voluntears to go aganst the indians will not do unless they are kept under better diciplin and more suborenation than they have been here tofore for they only go so far as they think proper and swear they will go no farther andrso go home and do nothing to ward cowing the enemy; but I must stop having said so much more then I expected when I sat down. With every good wist for your health and prosperity and suckcess in the important station to which you have been called I have the lwunor to be /}>- Your Excellencys Obediant / and humble servant William T. Sadler His Excelency M. B. Lamar
[Endorsed] WT Sadler Houston Cty 22nd. Feb 39 Recd. 17 "Meli Indian Disturbances
[Addressed] His Excellency
M. B. Lamar
Cyty of Houston Texas
Crockett
} Feb. 25, 1839
Houston Co
No. 1087
1839 Feb. 23, M. B. LAMAR TO (J.] HEl\lPHILL, [BRAZOS1]
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Houston 23rd. Feby 1839.
Hemphill Esqr. Dear Sir
Genl Dunlap will leave in a few days for the city
'"By J. B. Ransom. 30-Llbrary.
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