WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
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must bring all our prisoners, and we will give you your prisoners in return. We have not sold your prisoners, nor have we treated them unkindly. We have looked upon them as our children, and they have not been hungry amongst us. I send you two prisoners, that you may see them, and know that they have been well treated. You must bring all our prisoners to the council; and when peace has been made, and we have become friends forever, we will give you all your prisoners. When you look upon them you will see that the white people have been kind to their red prisoners; and when peace is made no more prisoners .will be taken, but the path between us will be open, and when we meet our red brothers, the Comanches, we will take them by the hand as friends. We will sit by the same fire, and the pipe of peace which I send you by Jim Shaw, shall be smoked. It has been smoked in the council of friends, and the smoke which rose from it showed that the red and the white man sat together in peace-that they had made a smooth path between their fires, and had taken away the clouds of trouble from their nations.
Your brother, Sam Houston [Rubric]
1 Pape1·s on Indian A ff airs, Texas State Library. Crane, Li!e and Select Literary Remains of Sa.m Houston, 340-342. See another talk to Pah-Hah- You-Co on December 14, 1843.
To ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
Dr.
J. C. Eldredge
The Republic of Texas
to
voucher (1)
To Ear1inton & Massies Bill
$ 9.00
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To D. D. Crumpler To A. Everhard To Lamar Moore
20.50
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5.00 3.50
12.00
To F. Dietrich
2.00
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$ 52.00
I hereby certify on honor that the above articles were pur- chased for the Delaware Indians and for the use of the Com-
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