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No. 183 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO BENJAMIN SLOAT AND L. H. WILLIAMS Indian Bureau Washington 9 April 1845 To Messrs Sloat and Williams Indian Agents-Tehuacana Ck: Gent. Your communication dated 3rd inst. is recd. I regret to find that difficulties are likely to arise between the Delaware and the Comanche. We must exert our best efforts to prevent the Catastrophe. The Delaware are, as it were, the connecting link betwee1~ t.1s and the Comanche and it is ·important at this juncture that the best understanding should exist between them. In the name of the Govt. you can say, or send word to Pah hah yuco or any or all of the Chiefs of the Comanche and their Tribe, that the Delaware who killed the men on the St. Marks [San Marcos] have been demanded of the Govt. of the U. States to which they appertain, and that they will, no doubt, be given up. My last communication dated 2nd inst. was sent pr. a Mr. B. M. Carr, you have no doubt recd. it. You will therein per- ceive that the Sherriff of Milam County has some horses, which were Stolen from the Caddo in January last. By the same conveyance orders were sent to Col. Will'iams to repair to the Trad'ing House on the Trinity, nevertheless, should his services be deemed necessary with you on the Brazos to aid you in reconciling the Delaware and Comanche, he may remain there to effect that important object, until further or- ders. It would be deemed improper for Capt. Sloat to leave his Post under present circumstances, it is in fact considered im- portant that both of you should be on the spot until there difficul- ties are adjusted or until they so far subside that the Comanche may be induced to come in and trade, and even that it will be
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