351 Still rady to protect ourselves And we kneed it very much as the Citizens on the extreme frontier are leaving nearly every week, And we would like of your excelency to commission men that know all about the Country & the nature of the Indians And the men too who feel interested in the protection of oure defenseless women & families. I have been told by Mr Bulison that while the Indians were depredating upon us this Spring he was in your office at Austin and you said that the citizens had better be at Home at work as out rangeing. We are the people who are inter- ested in this affair & And my company notwithstanding, we did not receive commissions or authority from you has ranged about four months indepindently as the circumstances were such that we were compelled to do So. And it looks extremely hard that we are the people who need the protection & we would like very much indeed if you do order out men to send the men who will protect the country & let the oppressed frontier people reap the binifits of the same. You will please answer the above soon and if you deceive this frontier people any longer they cannot & will support still they dont want to vote fore Houston this country depends entirely upon your future cours let us have 20 men any- how let me hear from excelency soon Yours very respectfully JOHN SALMON Receive July 1st 1859 No. 260 PETITION OF CITIZENS OF BLANCO COUNTY TO GOVERNOR H. R. RUNNELS [JUNE 24, 1859] To his Excellency H. R. Runnels Governor of the State. The undersigned citizens residing on the Blanco, (in Blanco County), & its vicinity respectfully inform you that parties of Indians entered this & the neighboring settlements about the 22nd of the present month of June & carried off a number of horses & committed other depredations, killing stock &c-Subse- quent examination of the surrounding county discloses an un- usual amount of Indian signs & satisfying us that there are in all probability other parties still in the county-fresh trails ap- proaching the settlements have been discovered since the depar-
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