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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1829
Should the President adopt the course, and Colo. Chouteau be appointed for the purpose, I would, with great p!easure accom- pany him on the Mission, and render all aid within my power, but ,vill not accept any compensation for my services as the duty would recreate my mind.- Sam Houston Gen 1 John H. Eaton. 1 Jackson MSS., U.S. Congressional Library. Photostat, The University of Texas Library. ~Because John Quincy Adams made little or no effort to enforce the treaty, made by the United States (1791) with the Cherokees, the Indians, in general, distrusted him. See Annie Abel Henderson, "Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi," in American Hist01·ical Association Revort for 1906, I, 241, also E. Channing, Hi.story of the United Statts, IV, 290. 3 The Choteau family had a great influence in the development of the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase. Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, half brothers, went from New Orleans to St. Louis in 1764 (American State Papers, I, 729). Colonel Auguste Pierre Chouteau, son of Pierre, was born 1787. He became a great trader among the Indians, and married an Osage woman, "Rosalie." Associated with Manuel Lisa and other fur traders, Colonel A. P. Chouteau became very wealthy, and spread out his trading stations throughout the Missouri and Arkansas territories. He had business and friendly relations with a great many of the leading men of his day. American State Papers, "Claims," I, 432. Grant Foreman, Pioneers of the Ea.rly Southwest, 85, 90-93. Dictionary of Ame1·ican Biography, I. This volume I gives sketches of four members of this famous Chouteau family; Pierre Auguste Chouteau on page 92, by William J. Ghent; Jean Pierre Choteau, p. 93 and Rene Auguste Chouteau, pp. 94-96, by the same author; and Pierre Chouteau, 93-94, by Stella Drumm.
To COLONEL MATTHEW ARBUCKLE 1
Bayou Maynard, C. N. 8th July 1829 Dear Sir,2 After you left me on last evening, I attended the Dance and Talk of the Cherokees, & Creeks, and had the mortifi- cation to witness (in despite of all my efforts) the raising of the Tomahawk of war, by seven Cherokees. The Creeks did not join and I trust that you may by attending their council be enabled to prevent them at any future day. Tho' I am sensible that Sniith 3 will use every persuasive in his power, with them to unite with him & his partizans, in this unjust and impolitic war against the Pawanees & the Kimanchiss. It is the project of a few rest- less and turbulent young men, who will not yield, or listen to the Talk of their Chiefs. The great body of the chiefs of the Chero- kees are most positively opposed to the war; and I have pointed r
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