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I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, with the copies of letters from S. P. Ross and J. R. Baylor Special Agents of Texas Indians, from which it seems there is a prospect of some difficulty with the Northern Comanche. Should these or any other hostile Indians attack our frontier settlements in the absence of a sufficient Mounted force of United States troops, I advise the frontier settlers immediately to or- ganize themselves into a Company, repel the attack, and if their numbers will permit, follow up the Indians and chastize them. Should such an organization become necessary, let them report to me promptly and I will sustain them, and endeavor to procure an appropriation from the Legislature to compensate them for their services and expenses. Yours with respect. EM PEASE [E. M. Pease, Executive Record Book, Number 35, Page 357.)
No. 159 STATEMENT OF RUFUS DOANE AND J. F. CROSBY
House of Representatives Novr. 13, 1855
To the
Chairman and Gentlemen of the Com. on Indian affairs of the Senate.
At a meeting of a portion of those gentlemen present in this city interested in the protection of our frontier against the incursions of the Indians etc. it was resolved that each one present afore·aid should furnish your Com. with a Statement of depredations committed in their re- spective localities of late, as well as the present condition of their section and necessity for immediate protection. The undersigned representing all that portion of frontier lying west of the Pecos River would respectfully state, that it is impossible for them to particularize in regard to the many depredations committed upon, and losses experienced by, the citizens residing in the aforesaid district of country, and that
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