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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
I fear that the Indians will not leave those neighborhoods for months
Very respect.fully Your obt. Servt. EM PEASE
Maj Genl.
Persifor F. Smith.
[E. M. Pease, Executive Record Book, Number 35, Page 444.]
No. 162 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TO J. H. CALLAHAN, E. B. GEORGE, R. W. JOHNSON AND OTHERS
Executive Office. Austin Texas, March 31st 1856.
Messrs J. H. Callahan, E. Ben George, R. W. Johnson, Otto Wuppermann & others.- Gent.
Your communication of the 12th inst. represent- ing that unless something is done immediately for the protec- tion of the Citizens residing on the upper Blanco, Guadalupe, Curry's Creek and Pedernales they will be compelled to give up their homes, has just been received. I have not been unmindful of your exposed condition, and some time since requested the Commanding General of this Department to have Mounted Troops sent to your vicinity for its protection, but I have heard nothing from him in reply. You must be well aware that no means have been placed at my disposal for frontier protection, and without means I can do nothing effective. I would however advise that your settlement organize a com- pany of Minute Men, let a small number, say 10 or 15 be kept scouting, whose duty it shall be to notify the Company to as- semble and pursue the Indians whenever it shall be ascertained that they are in the neighborhood, such a course will enable you
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