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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
[Endl)rsed] Supdt.
To Washington
22 July 1845.
Torrey & Co-
No. 261 LETTER FROM TH0:.-IAS G. WESTERN TO L. H. WILLIAMS Indian Bureau Washington 24 July 1845 L. H. Williams Eqr Indian Agent Sir Yours pr. Jack Harry are at hand and contents duly noted. Our friend Captain Jose Maria and our friends all the friendly Indians, that they may rest in peace and their women and children shall sleep in quiet-white men will not harm them nor shall the war cry alarm them their young men may hunt as before, there is no war and our path is Broad and white- about two moons past some bad Indians killed white men on the Colorado, they believed it was the Comanche and wanted to get the men who did the murder, but I went to our people with the words of the Pres·ident and told them not to fight the Co- manche perhaps they were innocent May be Waco did the mischief and we would know all about it at the Council in Sep- tember-and they were quiet and no mor.e talk of war-My friend Jose Maria and the rest must not belieYe lies. we will not make war on the Waco-We will first talk with him and the other Captains in Council and when they think it will be good to punish the Waco, we will talk to all Chiefs about it- the White man will not shed the Red mans blood if he can avoid it, it is not good to kill even the Waco who are very bad men.- This is a good talk I said to my friend Jose Maria embrace him for me he ·is my brother I will see him in 5 or 6 weeks in less than 2 moons From what you say it seems that Jim Ned and his party have become little better than a band of Out laws, and by what I preceive, some of the whites pay as little attention or respect, to the laws as he does- Have you exacted from Torrey and Co. the Invoices I 'instructed you to obtain from them; if they
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