TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859 171 sorry to say that the representations made to you from San Antonio are more than corroborated by the facts which have come to my knowledge here- The citizens have forwarded by this mail an other statement to you on the subject of Indian depredations.- I also feel it is my duty to inform you of oc- curances transpiring on this river above us which may effect the safety of this community. Every thing has run wild in New Mexico,-so much so that Gov Calhoun has gone to the City of Washington to vacate his office that some one may be appointed whose health and tem- perament may be better suited to the crisis-Col, Snmner is acting Gov and has consentrated all the troops which can be spared from the Garrisons at Santa Fe and Albuquerque-about five companies at the former and about eight at the latter place, -leaving !'"mall commands in Garrison at Movo. east of Santa Fe at Val Verde on the Rio Grande and at the Copper Mines on the Gila and perhaps some others-- In this situation the Col awaits events. It appears to me that we are liable to be effect.ed by this movement in New Mexico for should the revolutionist.s meet with the most trivial success in any quarter it will E:mbolden the wild Indians with whom they affiliate at pleas- ure beside being the signal for all the outlaws of the country to unite against the better portion of the community where ever there is booty enough to incite them,- and should they be dis- pursed then driven from their former homes the half Mexican half-Indian race will be forced to fall back upon any the most accessible section of the country from which to draw their sub- sistance and none will present fewer obsticles and more induce- ments than this valley. When writting the foregoing I had no reason to suppose that any thing like sympathy for this New Mexican movement --existed in this section but I now have from different sources reason to believe that there is at least a corrispondence kept up between the parties in New Mexico and certain persons now residing in El Paso opposite this place-the circle is however to intelligent to favor any movement of the kind, with any hope of a "revolution" in our understanding of the term, and the object with them must be but to bring on confusion and seize the moment for plunder,-! simply give these items as making up in part the necessity of some protection for this fron- tier,- So far as the establishment of law and order among our
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