unprotected from the evils which were so tragically manifested on the frontiners of Georgia and Alabama; evils which can only be remedied by the skill and generalship of a Jackson, while he was controling the chivalry of Tennessee and Georgia. The unhappy distractions of this government have been such as to command the attention of the president to the interior condition of the country. Circumstances as we arc, the undersigned feel bound by a solemn regard lo the safety of this section of the republic, to ma_ke an explicit appeal to the president of the United Stales, and request of him the enforcement of the thirty-third article of the treaty, and that he will restrain the Indians residing within the limits of the United States, lo the country designated for them on the Arkansas. The undersigned make this application, with the more confidence because they humbly conceive that the treaty referred to, is most explicit on this subject-and it would seem that difficulties of this character had been anticipated by the contracting parties at the time of its negotiation, and that the caution manifested had been induced by a belief that each party was able and would perform the stipulations of the treaty in good faith! It is a fact notorious that no "incursion" by Indians residing in this country, at the ratification of the treaty has taken place to the territory of the United Stales. Should an incursion of Indians, such as is contemplated, Lake place (and it will be an inevitable consequence without the prompt interferenee of your excellency), we most earnestly conceive, that it cannot be regarded as justified by an act of the Mexican government, but must be referred to some other cause unknown to those who must fall the victim of foreign Indians, amalgamated with those who already surround the settlement of Texas. The immediate allention of your excellency lo this subject is earneslly implored, by the unfortunate condition of Texas as well as by the duty and feelings which the undersigned owe lo the present crisis.
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