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them or in any way avenge our wrongs. We are in a manner at their mercy-and if such mercy as the blood of Miss Mary Davis testifies to: Sir, there is too much of the blood of our citizens and of their children spilt in Bexar County by these merciless demons- to longer hesitate between peace and war. If we the citizens of the frontier have any right of protection from our Country, whether federal or State, in the name of God let us have it before it is forever too late.

Your fellow Citizen, Citizens

Citizens J.P. DANIEL R. H. DA VEI [sic]

GEORGE MONTAGUE BF BIRD LYMAN WIGHT AARON HURLEY JAMES BALLANTYNE GM BIRD

L W THOMSON CHR. LUNTZEL CHARLES MONTEL AND Co. W BALLANTYNE M.GILLIS 0 B MILES A. W. STILWELL JOHN MIER A. SMITH

F W DAVIDSON C. C. STANFORD T. E. OBORSKE THOMAS CLARK

T. KINDLE G CARTER GEORGE HAY SAMUEL CALVERT ANDREW HOFFMAN T. F. CARTER LYMAN WIGHT MEACHAM CURTIS LEVI L. WIGHT JOHN L GRESSMEN SPENCER SMITH ASHER GRESSMEN JEREMIAH CURTIS FRANCES JOHNSON

JOSEPH CURTIS RICHARD BIRD

[Endorsed] Bandera Bexar Co 21 Sept 1855.

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