TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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I shall expect my Comanche brother, after we have em- braced, parted, and he has gone home, to see to the sending in the horses that have been stolen; I learn he says ·it shall be done. He is a powerful chief and I look for him to attend to it. I know he is an honest man. When many good strong and hon- est men stand up together, bad men run like wolves; and if bad men will steal horses they must be stopped and the horses must be taken from them and given to their owners and if they can- not be stopped, good men must put them clown; they ought to be slain. Near three years ago I sent my Chiefs to the Comanche to counsel and talk, on the frontier. I sent Conner and Shaw and Col Williams to bring them in, The Comanche did not come in, because they had once been deceived, they have now come here and can see Acaquash and the other chiefs, Luis Sanchez, the Keechi Chief, the old woman and many others who have been down to my house, and were never harmed. We will have plenty to eat now; there will be no more hunger, tomorrow we will have the Treaty read: it is like my talk. All the principal chiefs will sign it, but particularly the Comanche. I have not called the names of Jose Maria, Red Bear, Bintah and others who have come here to see me, yet I well remember they have been with my Chiefs and I know them well. Now the Chiefs can consider of my words, as they have heard them: they are true, and will last as long as the earth our mother, or the Great Spirit which is our father. They can sleep upon them tonight, and I will hear them in Council tomorrow. His Excellency arose from his seat, and requested Acaquash to rise also, when he bound around his brow a silk handkerchief, with a large pin in front, and proclaimed him "Chief of the Waco."- The Council adjoui·ned to meet tomorrow morning between nine and ten o'clock.- Tuesday, October 8th 1844. Council met pursuant to ad- journment.-present as before.- The Council was opened by the following talk from Pocha- naquarhip or Buffalo Hump, the War Chief of the Comanche. "The Great Spirit above is looking down and sees and hears my talk; the ground is my mother, and sees and hears that I tell the truth. When I first heard the words of your Chief I felt glad; and I was uneasy until I struck the white path and came
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