326 will thus perceive that the "Military" are at your command when- ever its services may be found necessary to the execution of the law; I addressed a similar order to Capt. Ford several weeks since of which I presume you have been before apprised having informed Mr. Herning of the fact at the time who had previously informed me of his having been engaged for the prosecution of the parties against whom warrants had been issued. The immediate cause of the reissuing of the order to the Rangers is the probable if not certain emergency which I am in- duced to believe has or will arise during the absence of Capt. Ford from the command from the aforesaid letter of Garland.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. H. R. RUNNELS
No. 236
LETTER FROM H. R. RUNNELS TO THE CITIZENS OF ERATH, PALO PINTO, COMANCHE AND OTHER COUNTIES
Executive Office, Austin, March 12, 1859 To the citizens of Erath, Jack, Palo Pinto, Comanche and other adjoining counties to the Indian Reserve. Early in the month, in December last, intelligence was fur- nished me of a combination of the citizens of certain counties neighboring the Indian Reserves, unlawfully to make war upon the Indians occupying them, and forcibly to drive the Indians from their limits. On the 27th of December an attack was made on a part of the friendly Indians, who were encamped without the limits of the lower Reserve, and a number of the party killed; and it is believed at a time when they imagined themselves secure from all danger, nothing having occurred to interrupt the exist- ing relations of peace and amity with their neighbors. Believing that said act of violence would lead to hostility, and having reli- able information of the organization of an armed force for such purpose by the whites, Proclamation was issued, warning all per-
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