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but to help our friends to make corn and other things for their · women and children to eat. I want you to take this talk in a hurry, that the Comanches, Kiaways, and other red brothers may come to the council at the time spoken of. After the treaty is made, an agent will stay at the trading-house near the treaty-ground. The agent will send me your talk in writing, and if any mischief is done to your people, you will not get mad till you hear from me, and I will have the men punished that did wrong. If the young men of your nation do bad, or say that they will not walk in your counsel, you must punish them, or it will bring trouble upon your women and children. You have seen me and talked with me and heard my words. You know I will not lie-and therefore, keep them in your heart. Your brother, Sam Houston. 1 Pcipers on Indian Affairs; also Executive Recorcl Book, No. 40, p. 323, Texas State Library. Crane, Li/ e and Select Litera1·y Remains of Sam Houston, 346-347.
To HAYDEN Enw ARDS 1
Washington, January 31st, 1844.
To Hayden Edwards,2 Esq. Sir-Luis Sanchez has informed me that it will be agreeable to you to carry up immediately a lot of goods to trade with the Indians. He will leave here tomorrow for the Comanches, who are on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, in company with a Kechi, Ioni, and Cherokee Chief, who have been down here for some days past. An old Comanche woman, the half sister of Pah-hah-yuco, the principal chief, is also here, and will go back at the same time. The arrangement that Luis Sanchez advises, in reference to your going up is this: You are to start immediately from home with your goods, upon the reception of this letter, and you are to go by way of Fort Houston, along the old Comanche trail to the old Tawoccano village, at T'awoccano hill; and in fifteen days from this date, Luis will have some Indians at Tawoccano hill to pilot you up to the Kechi, or Ioni village; and if you go according to this arrangement, you will meet Luis himself at the Kechi or Ioni village. Luis says this is the time to trade your goods, and you must not fail to go. He also requests that you send word to his family,
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