Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. V

96 the United States District Court for the District of Texas at Brownsville, Texas, now on file in my office. Witness my hand & s al of office at Brownsville, Cameron County Texas This June 15th AD 1852 F w FAUNTLEROY Clerk U.S.D.C. Dt. Texas [Endorsed] Affidavit of B. Nickels, Sheriff of Cameron County, Texas, relative to the unprotected state of the frontier on the Lower Rio Grande Brownsville, Texas June 16, 1852 Recd at the Exec Dept. State of Texas Austin, July 1st, 1852

No. 76 LETTER FROM P. NICKELS TO P. H. BELL

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Sheriff's Office, Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. June 15th. 1852.

To His Excellency P.H. Bell,

Governor of the State of Texas. Sir:

In haste I write to you a few lines to join my request in connection with many others to Your Excellency for such aid and protection as you have your power to give us for this frontier in the present emergency. If ever there was a time for action on the part of the State Government for the protec- tion of its inhabitants and citizens, it is now. The General Government has entirely failed to render us any assistance here. I made a requisition a few days ago upon the commanding officer at Fort Brown for assistance from the military to aid me in the execution of a process (to wit, a warrant for the arrest of a Mexican by the name of Villarial who is at the head and in command of a large body of armed Indians and Mexicans that

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