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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 18£~2
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TO CASTRO AND FLACCO, THE LIPAN CHIEFSt
City of Houston, September 1, 1842.
TO CASTRO AND FLACCO:. MY BROTHERS: I send to you Drs. Tower and Cottle, on their way to the Apache nation. Antonio, an Apache, is with them. They want you to send some of your people with them. I hope you will do so ; and if they want horses, I wish you would let them have good ones for them to ride. I will make presents to the Lipans who may go with my agents to the Apache nation. I am your brother, Sam Houston. 1 Pape1·s on Indian Affafrs, Texas State Library. W. C. Crane, Life cmd Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston, p. 336. To CLARK L. OwENL Executive Department, City of Houston, September 2d., 1842. To Col. Clark L. Owen:~ Dear Sir -You will perceive that I send you an order to adopt such measures as you may deem most conducive to the protection and peace of the frontier. You will have to pursue such course as will attain the object, which you know to be so desirable to me. You will have to use such discretion as the necessities of the country and the safety of the frontier may require. I have used all my endeavors to get up an efficient force to give the whole country its independence and safety. If it has failed, the fault is not the government's; for all has been done that can be by its officers. The want of will to do so, is not in the government, but must rest somewhere else. I am told that the traders from Mexico are now coming in to trade. If this should be the case, it will present a new com- plexion to matters. If it is so, you are authorized to open the trade, if you are satisfied that it will be productive of advantage to the frontier. You are there and can judge of what course ought to be pursued, and pursue it for the best. The British Consul General 3 has arrived, and believes that we will soon have peace with Mexico; but we ought to look out for ourselves and suffer no surprise. I hope you will write to me by every opportunity. You can act upon this authority until further powers arrive. No one will
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