308 the use of all lawful means to effect the object, The right of the civil authorities to call on the military, when resistance is made to due process of the law, cannot be questioned. I have thought proper to communicate this to you in anticipation of the happen- ing of such an event, and that there may be no unnecessary delay in transmitting an order hereafter to the same effect which might become neecssary. If you intend making a scout or expedition to the Concho and Colorado, it must be done without delay, as the country will not justify me in keeping the companies in the field much longer, I have just learned that we shall be able to get no appropriation from Congress this session, for the pay of the men now in the field; and I greatly fear the lawless act against the Reserve Indians is to defeat the State in obtaining the sums already advanced. Let me hear from you soon, with an account of your in- tended movements. I am Sir very Respectfully H. R. RUNNELS
No. 219 LETTER FROM N. W. BATTLE TO H. R. RUNNELS
Waco Texas. February 14.th 1859
To His Excellency H. R. Runels Austin: Sir: On the 15th day of January Maj. R. G. Neigh- bors U. S. Suprg. Int Agt appeared before me in the town of Waco, & filed his complaint in writing in due form of law against Peter Garland. D Thornton, W. E. Motherel, W. W. Mc- Neill, R. Duprey, W. T. L. Lowder, and John R. Waller (if I do not mistake names) and other persons whose names were un- known to Complainant. The matter of the Complaint was that said persons on or about the 27. day of Dec. past in the County of Palo Pinto within a few miles of the U. S. Ind. Reservation did wilfully, wantonly, and of malice aforethought, kill and mur- der Ckeontes, Ckeonta, Ckoctan's Luns wife and other women and children amounting to seven in all. These indians at the time of the alledged murder resided upon the reserve, were at peace with the Government, and under the protection of the laws of Texas.
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