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policy of the Government. is such as will enable these poor creatures to be cared for at their home in Texas. Very Respectfuily Your obt Sv't J W THROCKMORTON Governor of Texas [J. W. Throckmorton, Executive Record Book, Number 47, Page 147.]
No. 90 LETTER FROM J. W. THROCKMORTON TO D. l\I. COOLEY Executive Department Austin Texas Nov 5th 1866 To Hon. Comr Indian Affairs Washington, D. C. Accompanying this communication I forwarded to you extracts from a letter recently received by me from gen- tlemen of high respectability, who are acquainted with the con- dition of affairs at the Wichita Agency, near Fort Arbuckle, where the friendly Comanche and Caddo are located. I write for the purpose of calling the attention of the Dept. to the fact that the Kiowa Indians, and a portion of the Comanche, that have made treaties with the Government within the last twelve months, are still depredating upon the borders of Texas, and at this time hold a number of the women and Children of our State in captivity, and also to urge upon the authoritities of the General Government to appoint an agent for the Wichita Agency, who is acquainted with and has the confidence of the Indians of that agency and who will feel some interest in the welfare of these Indians, and at the same time, will exert the influence the position gives him, with the wild Indians of the plains for the benefit of Texas. On the first branch of the subject, I beg to state, that for the last twelve months, the depredations upon our border have been of the most appalling character. Numbers of the best frontier citizens have been murdered; quite a number of women and children have been carried into captivity, and several hun- dred thousand dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, and
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