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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
moment of my time that an acceptance is rendered utterly im- possible I have the honor to be Very Respectfully GARDNER W. PIERCE To Sam Houston Governor of the State of Texas [Endorsed] Gardner W. Pierce
Laredo Deer 15/60 declining to accept The appointment as one of the Indian Com- missioners-
No. 37 LE'M'ER FROM W. S. DELANY TO F. R. LUBBOCK
Columbus Texas Dec 16th 1860 [April, 1862]
To his Excellency Governor Lubbock
Governor The enclosed petition has been handed to me with the request to ~ransmit it to your Excellency. I un- derstand that another of the same purport has also been for- warded. I trust your Excellen~y will not consider their petitions as an indication of an unwillingness on the part of the people here to do their duty in the present crisis. Such I think is certainly not the case. As the commander of the State troops of the county I have had a pretty good opportunity to ascertain the disposition of the people: and I can assure your Excellency that so far as I know as citisen there is not a man in the county whose loyalty is even questioned. But these petitions express truly the condition of many of our people. The county has sent all its men to the field who could with any tolerable convenience leave home. With a voting popula- tion of about a thousand. about eleven hundred have gone. The poorer families have divided their clothes and bedding with their friends in the Service until some of them nave
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