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Greensbury Dorsy old man in N. O.- Dorsey, still lives in N. 0.- [Endorsed]
Information derived from Col S. M. Williams respecting Lafitte.-
No. 1613 [1839, A. S. JOHNSTON, AUSTIN? TEXASl- MEMORANDA UPON RECENT HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS OF INDIAN RELATIONS 82 Memoranda. 1st Your notice of the relation of emigrant Indians to this Govern- ment in your late message- 83 2. The Cherokees claimed exclusive jurisdiction of the country occu- pied by them & manifesteq a most hostile disposition, when M[r J Walters attempted to establish a post at the Sabine under the orders of the War Department. having but one company he could not pro- ceed- The establishment of the post was ordered to secure the in- habitants of that frontier, many of whom had been destroyed the pre- vious year amidst the Cherokees, viz the Kelly family- and to cut off the intercourse between the hostile indians & the cherokees; also to watch the movements of the Cherokees concerning of whose treacherous correspondence, 84 with the Mexican Government there was then but little doubt-transmitted by G Huston (letters of different persons) 2 The interception of the letters sent by General Canalizo central com- mander at Matamoras to Bowles & the chief of many other tribes- The order to Genl Burleson to march from the west on the Cherokee country and for the raising volunteers [ sic J in the east to act with him- the whole under the command of Genl Douglass- The appointment 8 G of commissioners to arrange for the peaceable removal of the cherokees with authority to allow a just compensation to be ascertained by ap- praisement & paid before their removal- The efforts of the com- missioners to bring about the arrangement- The failure of the nego- ciation and the immediate orders of th!l Secretary of war to the Com- manding General to demand an immediate submission to the generous terms 86 of the Government, too much so for treacherous enemies- and not at Marseilles, and was from his very boyhood accustomed to the ocean; for he belonged to a family, which, for many generations, had furnished some of the most skillful seamen and daring privateersmen of Bayonne." "'A. Df. ••No. 1529. "See note'" to no. 1529. 8 'The appointment of D. G. Burnet, A. S. Johnston, T. J. Rusk, J. W. Burton ,and J. S. Mayfield as commissioners to remove the Cherokees from Texas is tran'scribed in the Texa.s archives, Records of the Department of State, Book 36, p. 107, under date of June 27, 1839. "'Under these conditions the Cherokees were to be peaceably removed from Texas, and fair and liberal compensation was offered them for their improve-
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