The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-09

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iariiy Of Munchausen, and thus enables us to ex-
anime this probable accusation. We give his own
words:
When Texas with less than thirty thousand inhabitants
was struggling against nation OF eight millions OF people,
naon without regard 70 AGE or sex the Indians belonging
The United states who had been driven 70 our borders were
United states mad sgree wafrins upon our w,vss sna Gnu
Jscnto my wife and children 6ad o AXE refuge with e
late gallant General Gaines on tins sde Q! he ssDps y
whom this Government was bound by solemn teaty % po
! sas HousroE.--Ana whose annuides paid N am
Mr. RusK4Wirh one Tribe of Indians CHE Csddos) the
unss s @sss a nsSs ,sIn iSsn q n the
Sg n at aS M ndsr tSs, ssly sy efs supplied with
si0uoo worth powder. sad, and arms Facn were e7Pe
p1saed hey would retreat INTO territory q the United
% the Ssa e Ss uaisa sss was
retuked By The Governor OF Louisiana ana Mnlch Afforded
There had iaks hsII halds me arms and ammuni
on tunlssd 70 them By s s so S f. nis ssa.e Of
take from whs you are RAISING armies tins
nunared your Indians owen out Of Fonda and other
STATE as nov upon ns s 81 as1Ss and engaged a. TINS
ana lives Of czes, without regard age, sex,
moi not willing to complain but When
in agn g this you ask 10 submit to the sword thai
The territory the Executive Government may Direct hope
os WI not believe that we will tamely submit to such
We propose 10 give brief history of the Caddoes,
gathered in part from Congressional documents,
and partly from our own personal knowledge.
treaty was made with the Caddoes in 1886
lehuiel Brooks acting as Commissioner They coded
all Of their lands to the United States receiving
$S0,0OOm goods, and $50 900, in five annual install
mems, in cash. They agreed TO withdraw from the
United States permanently To this treaty were
added supplemental articles, by enc of which the
United States recognized an alleged donation to the
Grapes, OF an immense extent Of the Red River
bottom The treaty was KEPT secret until the Com
missioner could hurry The Grapes, and for 5000
purchase, what was worth hundreds of thousands.
On this land were settled several families who had
been on it for nearly half century. They resisted
the efforts to them-made complaint to the Co
vernment, who caused large number Of deposit
tons to be taken--and thus the local Evolutionary
history Of the Caddoes has been collected and pre-
served. From that testimony the following facts
appear:
The Caddoes are an offshoot from the Shawnees,
and branched of during the last century from the
parent stock, and settled on the left bank of Red
River, in what now constitutes Caddo Parish and
Harrison County, leras, and on the forks Of the
Brazos IN Texas. The Winters they spent in the
cane brakes of Red River which furnished food for
their horses. The Summers they passed in their
more Western settlements. Their principal village
was at the Caddo Springs Tsras, about fifty miles
Northwest OF Shreveport. They had thus two
homes. They were a harmless tribe and had al
ways been friendly to the whites When the raft
was removed as high as The bluffs, which now CON
shtnts the furnishing town OF shreveport, the tide
Of emigration was directed to that beautiful region,
and 1t became necessary to buy off the Indian tide
Their CLAIM in Texas was just as valid as that in
I Ifat1i t.h .,et - !
cemeney of the superior civilized power The
United States purchased their claim, paid them the
$jO,OOO, and agreed to pay, and did pay in cash,
the other annuities. In September, 1898, the Cad
does came to Shreveport to receive the nstalment
of that year About fifty soarriors, as they were
styled, and twice or thrice that number of women
and children. The money had been paid 70 a lead
ing democrat of Arkansas, who had large store in |
Shreveport. The Indians were paid by their agent
with blankets, and the usual articles of Indian
commerce, few rifles and small quantity of am
munltlon. We regret to say that whisky formed
ve,y considerable item in the bill They behaved
very quietly until they obtained the liquor, when
they became very noisy and quarrelspme among
themselves, but never showing any EMMY toward
ths whttss-nor did they manifest any hostility to
the Texans. In fact, the head chief and a large
part OF the tribe remained on their grounds in Texas
and did not come in for the annuity
About fifty miles from Shreveport was the
Cherokee Reserve "-the most desirable section
of Eastern Texas. This settlement had been
formed like that Of the Caddoes A fraction of the
Cherokees had obtained from the Mexican Govern
ment grant Of land, and had taken possession of
It shortly after the first emigration West At the
breaking out of the War Of Independence, the
hrOr TiuIf.r anIf l.
them and had guaranteed to them the integrity of
their possessions, provided they would remain neu-
trail. The Cherokees had faithfully maintained the
contract. and if we mistake not, some of them
fought on the side of Texas. But now that all
danger was over from Mexico, the hearts of the
Texans coveted this vineyard, and already the
question had been loudly canvassed and the deter
mlnation expressed to take possession.
The Cherokees were already irritated, and pre-
paring Tor the war which broke out in the spring of
~. That irritation had been much aggravated by
predatory excursion of Robert Potter, a man Of
infamous notoriety, and who, still reeking with
crime, had but recently been Texan Secretary Of
the Navy, This man lived on Soda Lake, in Tex
as, in the neighborhood of the Cherokees. He
charged them with having stolen some horses, and
producing no proof the guilt of any of the tribe,
they refused to pay for them. He raised party,
ana helped himself to fine drove of Cherokee cat
tie which he brought to Shreveport and sold
MS man was afterwards shot in the Lake, while
'rylng 20 escape from party of Lynchers and
hel the oeath, a lie Of violence and crime merited
In another direction lived group of horse
thieves, couhterieiters, and Murrell men, who, the
following year, were srtermiaated like wolves.
| In October 1888 after part Of the Caddoes
| had afart c.rt L..