157 troops on your frontier, can give all the support which would be required to enable the Indian Department to carry it into effect. Very Respectfully, Yo: Obet: Svt: (signed,) JEFFN. DAVIS Secretary of War. Executive Department State of Texas Austin, October 31, 1853 I hereby certify, that the foregoing 3 pages contain a true and correct transcript of a document on file in this Department.
CHAS : A. HARRISON Private Secretary
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No. 118 LETTER FROM W. J. TODD TO GOVERNOR E. M. PEASE
Clarksville, Jany 5th 1854
My Dear Sir: I deem it my duty to call your attention to a subject of much inteerst to a portion of the people of this District and which I am astonished has been so long neglected but must, I presume be owing to the fact that the subject has not before been presented to the Executive. I allude to the cause of James L. Tyson, a man residing in the Chickasaw Nation just opposite to Preston, in Grayson County. It has been several years since this man committed one of the most cold blooded and revolting murders in the town of Pres- ton, ever heard of in this region of country, for which he was indicted by the Grand Jury of Grayson County for Murder. No efforts have ever been made that I know of to have him arrested and brought to trial and he remains there almost in sight of the theatre of his horrid crime, giving defiance to the Laws of Texas, and harrassing and annoying our citizens. In fact he is always surrounded by a lawless gang of armed men and is continually committing depredations upon our citizens, regardless of their legal rights. Upon petitions duly presented I have issued the
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