WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
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To let you know that you are not forgotten, and that I hold the friendly chief of the red men near my heart, I send you presents. Our nation is yet young, but peace will make us rich, and then I will send many presents to our red brothers. At the council at Tahwoccany creek in April next, I will send you a new pipe that I have had made at a great distance from here. It will be a pipe of peace. You will smoke it with our red friends at the council, and if I cannot be there to meet you, you must come to see me, and we will smoke at my own fireside. I will look for the great chiefs of the different bands. If they come to see me, they shall not go away hungry. I will expect you to go and be with my friends till they go to the Comanches and stay with them till the Council. I hope the Great Spirit will smile upon you, and give many blessings to my red brothers. Your Brother, Sam Houston 1 Papers on Indian Affnin1; also Execut.ive Record Book, No. 40, p. 278, Texas State Library. Crane, Life mul Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston, 345-346. TO GEORGE W. HILL, SECRETARY OF WAR AND MARINE 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 14th, 1843. To Hon. G. W. Hill, Secretary of War and Marine: Sir - By authority of a joint resolution for the protection of the Southwestern frontier, approved 29th January, 1842, you will estimate for the funds required to pay detachment of spies on that frontier, commanded by Captain John C. Hays for services during the current year, at seventy five dollars per month, for commanding officer, and one dollar per day for the privates employed in said service. Sam Houston 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 274, Texas State Library. A TALK TO PAH-HAH-YUCO, THE COMANCHE CHIEF 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 14, 1843. To Pah-hah-yuco, Chief of the Comanches: MY BROTHER:-Your talk has reached me through the young chiefs that I sent to see you and talk to you about peace. My ears were opened and my heart was very glad. Your words are laid up in my remembrance. I was happy to hear that the
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