TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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and our women and children can lie down in peace and have nothing to fear. Our ears are now open, but they should be closed against bad talk, for- there are bad men among the white as well as among the Red men, and we must try and have them punished. If the white men do any thing wrong to our red brothers, let them come to the agents, and all shall be made good. We hear complaints that our horses have been stolen- we do not know who has done so, but we do not want to hear of any more being taken, to hear no more our wcmen and chil- dren crying over the death of their parents or braves, and the old men must tell their young ones that they must not do so, or we can have no peace. When you return to your villages tell your people these things you have heard at our councils, and ask them to come in and fear no danger, say to the Red men that a short time ago our Nation was weak and feeble and our warriors few, but now it is great and strong, having returned to its mother, the Great Nation of the East, and we are now able to protect the rights of all our Red bretheren. Fear noth- ing, a!though our warriors are strong, and number like the trees on the Brazos, they will still afford protection to the good man, and punish the bad. Our Great Chief, the President, does not want any blood put in the white path, but if the Waco Tawa- koni and Wichita do not stop stealing our horses, he will send his warriors against them, and perhaps some good men belong- ing to friendly trioes may be innocently killed. The chiefs here in council have many warriors, and you ought to say to our Red bothers who have not made peace, that they must do so, and must stop stealing our peoples horses. If you see them with stolen property, you should take it from them and carry it back where it came from. This will be proving your friend- ship and will be good in the eyes of the Great Spirit. We have all met as a band of brothers, and we should all part as such, for the Great Spirit sent us here to hold this talk, and it is good, Chief of the Comanche. "I have nothing to say about the Waco and others, who steal horses. I have frequently told them to stop it, but they would not listen, but if any of them come near my villages I will make my warriors take any stolen property they may have, and will bring it into my white brothers, but I cannot be responsible for those Indians, they will not do as I tell them." for he hears it. Mo-pe-chu-co-pe.
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