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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843
BENJAMIN BRYANT
FRANKLIN RITCHIE
AL MURRY
Interpreters John Conner, Jim Secondeye, Jim Shaw, Luis Sanchez, Jess Chisholm, and Red Horse The United [States] was represented in this Council by the Hon Pierce M Butler.
Treaty of Tehuacana Creek with various tribes of Indians- concluded March 28, 1843.
[Endorsed]
No. 123 MINUTES OF INDIAN COUNCIL AT TEHUACANA CREEK [March 28, 1843] Hon Pierce M Butler's Address, viz
I have come a long way to witness this treaty of peace and friendship; my talk will be very short and plain, That great Spirit that witnesses all our movement, I call to witness the sincerity of my words. Where the white flag waves before us there must by no untruths uttered. The Presdt. of the United States, has heard long enough of the War between our white, and Red brethren of Texas, and he has sent me here to try and bury the Tomahawk and to unstring the war bow; every Rifle that cracks or woman that screams, creates a shock among your friends. This has existed too long. The people of Texas are bone of our bones, and blood of our veins, Our Red brothers we feel a deep solicitude for. In speaking the plain truth I do not wish to mortify the friends of the white man, or complain of the Red man; but I must speak the truth, Bad young men of Texas first struved the Red mans path with thorns, drove them from their hunting grounds and their homes, in return for which the Red men have stolen their property, scalped their Women, and hold in bondage their inno- cent children.
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