167 most every mail from the Rio Grande brings hews of some recent outrages committed by the Indians in that section of the state and unless some means can be resorted to by the government to put an end to them, the entire settlements on that River, except in the Towns will have to be abandoned. Our citizens feel that they have a right to be protected in their lives and property and that while experience daily proves that the description of troops now used by the government on that frontier are unsufficient to cope with the Indians, they ought not longer to be relied on but that a force of mounted men should be substituted. I respectfully urge this matter upon your consideration, and trust that some efficient measures may be taken to give protec- tion to our Citizens. I have the honor to be respectfully your obt servt
EM PEASE
Copy of Letter to Jef Davis 24 Mch 1854 Recorded
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No. 125 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TOE. J. DAVIS Executive Office
Austin Texas 24 March 1854
Edmd J Davis Esq Dear Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by mail, on the 23rd inst of the proceedings of a public meeting of the Citizens of Webb County, of which you were the Chairman, held at the town of Laredo on the 11 inst. on the subject of the rob- beries and murders lately committed in that County by the Indians. I deeply sympathize with your Citizens in their distress, and am disposed to use all the means at my command for their relief. I immediately addressed a letter to the Secretary of War at Washington City enclosing a copy of the proceedings of your Citizens and calling his attention to the Indian depredations
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