(3151) [TRIPLETT to RITCHIE]
[Robert Triplett, New Orleans, to Thomas Ritchie(?), Richmond, May 24, 1836, concerning his relations with Texas, his influence with Santa Anna and Almonte, and the position of the United States.] (3152) [---·---to EDITOR]
[ca. May 24, 1836]
To the Editors of the Arkansas Gazette:
Gentlemen-Allow the inquiry to he made through the medium of your paper, . why Maj. Gen. Edward P. Gaines, commanding &c. &c., did not call citizen soldiers of Arkansas, through their Executive to defend their own frontier, at the time he supposed the country in imminent danger of being overrun by a "deadly and savage foe?" Should it so turn out that the information asked for is not in possession of any of your readers or corrospondents, I hope it will not savour of presumption to ask it from any other source that has or will have the means of knowing; say from the Globe, the National Intelligencer, or from the Gen. himself. The reasons for making the above inquiries are plain; we who live in Arkansas know well, the force and character of the supposed hostile Indians on our south-western frontier (we speak not of the Choctaws they are our friends;) and we know another thing, that Arkansas is always willing and more than able to drive them beyond the Rocky Mountains, should necessity require it. I speak of the Indians commonly called the Prairie Indians; hence I cannot see the reason why Gen. Gaines should call on the surrounding Stales for aid which could have been furnished at home at thirty days' notice, and that of the best and most efficient character. A Citizen of Arkansas.
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