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get them Down to the Council on purpos to kill them and thir wooman and children all off thay stated that mr Luey Did join the Keechi and Waco to Dance the skelps that thay took on the Colorado Last june for thay saw him Dance i then saw thir Determination in forsing us to goe with them to San Antonio and we gave our consent to goe i then toled Mopechucope that i should send the tew men home with Shaws Brother which he said thay should not goe i made him promis that treat them well which was to the reverse we returned to the vilage on the 28 august thir i found that it was the Yellow Wolf that had killed the mex- ican at San Antonio he got Back five Dayes befoe we did
BENJ SLOAT Indian agent
LEndorsed] Report of B. Sloat July 12h. 1845
No. 252 LETTER FROM ED RIPLEY WHEELOCK TO E. ALLEN
Washington (Texas) July 13th-1845
To the Honble E Allen
Secy of State
Sir
The Ideas which you had the goodness to advance in our casual conversation of yesterday in relation to the true policy of government with the Red men; that of par- alyzing their natural propensities for war, by adopting system of benevolence and Phelanthropy in the Extension of the use- full arts and the distribution of moral and Religious instruction to the defferent bands have struck me so forceabley for the last twenty years that I am induced to believe it to be the only true course of an Enlightened government when the Savages are not the aggressors Fully impressed with the fact I take the liberty of suggesting to the Honble Mr. Allen the propriety of immedeabely of carry- ing into Effect an object so desireable to the Christian World
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