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among the Comanche until after peace is made. they are a wild people, and by giving them what they want at home they never will come here. Is it good to take such to them? I say no. I wanted to see Houston, but you have lost horses, and you think my people have stolen them. I will go back and I want some one to go with me and see if we have them; and get some of the other tribes to assist in bringing them back. since we left our village they may have been taken, and carried there. s<!nd some one, and if so, he shall have them. None of my peo- ple here have ever stolen from the whites a horse." Talk of Jim Ned, the Delaware. "The Waco and Tawakoni have the horses stolen from the whites, and we all know it. We know of your going to the house of Mr Bryant on Little River, (to this young man's father who is now here,) and he gave you his corn and his beef; and your young Waco men say they love the Bryants, that they always used them well. they showed their love by stealing their friend's horses. When the Delaware and the other tribes shall steal horses, they will not go to the Waco or Tawakoni to get them to bring them back. the Keechi Chief, your neighbour, has promised if he can find the horses to bring them in." Talk of the Caddo Speaker "Red Bear." "I am not speaking for my own people alone, but for the good of you all. I don't want any thing concealed. Most of the chiefs now here went to Washington to see Gen') Houston, and after passing words of peace and friendship there, we then went home. Acaquash has said none of his people are here who have stolen from the whites. the man that now stands yonder, with ten other came into my village the day after I reached home. They had eleven horses when I saw them. I asked them of what tribe they were? they replied that all of them but two, a Tawehash and a Pawnee, were Waco. Then I said to them "What sort of men are you? you of the tribe of Acaquash? While he, for you, is trying to make peace, you are stealing horses from his friends the whites. he, Acaquash, went with me to Washington to see Houston and make for you a peace, and you, to help, went stealing white men's horses! For the wrong which you, young men, have dcne, your chiefs who went to Houston will be blamed. I talk to you as I talk to my young men. if they do wrong I don't
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