WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1835
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dollars. An arrangement was made by ,vhich they actually re- ceived from the Indians at New Orleans the sum of twenty thou- sand dollars. Hotchkiss and Hawkins then proceeded to New York, to obtain the grant from the agent of general Felasolo, but they failed in the purchase. Since then they have returned to Texas, and Hawkins has recently left this country for the United States, with the avowed and manifest intention of introducing into Texas not less than five thousand Creeks, so soon as it will be possible for them to reach here. The residue of the nation to join them as soon as they can remove to this country. The undersigned conceiving the whole transaction to be in con- travention of the thirty-third article of the treaty of amity and commerce, concluded between the republic of Mexico and the United States, on the 5th of April, 1831,:1 in the city of Mexico, have deemed it necessary, most respectfully, to solicit of your excellency, that the "incursion" of those Indians may be pre- vented-a sparse and comparatively defenceless population un- protected from the evils which were so tragically manifested on the frontiners of Georgia and Alabama; evils which can only be remedied by the skill and generalship of a Jackson, while he w~s controling the chivalry of Tennessee and Georgia. The unhappy distractions of this government have been such as to command the attention of the president to the interior con- dition of the country. Circumstanced as we are, the undersigned feel bound by a solemn regard to the safety of this section of the republic, to make an explicit appeal to the pr€sident of the United States, and request of him the enforcement of the thirty-thircl article of the treaty, and that he will restrain the Indians residing within the limits of the United States, to the country designated for them on the Arkansas. The undersigned make this application, with the more confi• dence because they humbly conceive that the treaty referred to, is most explicit on this subject-and it would seem that difficulties of this character had been anticipated by the contracting parties at the time of its negotiation, and that the caution manifested had been induced by a belief that each party was able and would per- form the stipulations of the treaty in good faith! It is a fact notorious that no "incursion" by Indians residing in this country, at the ratification of the treaty has taken place to the territory of the United States.
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