The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-23

10 he Editor Of The Unioal
day or two sincs lom Baena Vista. Texas small
town opposite Mier on the Rio Grande- beg thar you
will be good enough insert the same, with the accom-
subject past
two years. and which and have been committed
almost daily upon that frontier
The day before yesterday two Mexeans father and
place. oa Ibis side Of the river The wife and dangh
.eu We're taken prisoners and had the moineat9n q,
seeing the husband father, brother, and son ano
scalped in cold blood Poor gs fate awaited them
q here Z no doubt b.. that they were immeds'sy treated
iouunas 70 fall into their hands The girls were bol
yoangone twelve and the other fourteen years n no.
should be careless Negligent Of the
daily and Children 's carried mo
tyy which 10 them Is far than death the properly
punily and the certainly be OF our
suerngs and yet she has not taken single step 10 arrest
the predalosy excursions OF the savage toe
And again be says:
and expense in building and making his farm, under the
belief thai he would he protected he would leave here A.
live il security rom the attacks q the savages lie has
bull q, this point three fine houses and opened good
sized farm and with all that he Is under The necessity Oh
paying rent for house In Mer, (Mexico TO accommodate
his family 10 too dangerous 70 keep them on hI. side
Of the river Give protec0n--and my life on ~ that be-
fore five years the whole valley OF the Rio Grande VIII DC
The few nhaban.s now living as hixh a The liver a. this
place viii be compelled 10 abandon their homes, and 10
nsy my nave 70 u Sss n s ,ssm i've
where they wnl--protection.
Inow beg the attention OF those members Of Congress
who have been opposed e giving Us pfolecloaand no.
only the members OF Congress-, but every father OF a
family. every husband, every brother and every son
who lives within the limits Of the United Stateso the
facts contained in the above letter. and let them imagine
themselves and families in the situation Of those whose
homes there, upon that frontier Many OF them have
been compelled 70 flee into Mexico for protection per-
worth from twenty to fifty thousand dollars, they
protected living Tor weeks--yes can say tor months
almost, II not entirely, upon goats milk, without NEAL
without bread, and without any vegetable f0od. II
may be asked, why do not these people seek some
other means OF earning livelihood will tell you
they are people who have been raised upon their
that OF cuiyatng the soil To 90 into business they can
not they have not the capital and their only means
to get would be by sacrificing their lands, as all OF their
movable property has been swept away by the Indians
at the low sum Of fifteen twenty cents per acreands
that are worth and will sell for hive dollars per acre. 50
soon as the country Is projected And again. et them
bring their view. not in realy-no, God forbid that
should wish any person to be compelled To look on
sight SO horrible. Otherwise than BY maginationheir
father, If il be son, their son. If il be father, lying
welteng his blood as he has been surprised and
down by awess band Of Indians; and his e-blood
ceases to How. and consciousness departs from his mortal
frame forever TO see his wife and his daughter and ms
mother, and his sister, all Of them, dragged ron
their homes from their resides and there before his
eyes pnioned TO the ground. and IN that situation TO
deed that is dreadful name, horrible to imagine,
and in comparison TO which there is death by the
rack torture cruel, severe, that II
would not be considered mercy TO receive in its
stead And then, when they have completed their
helsh purposes upon the persons of those innocent
females i old, which it is mercy to be at such tune,
they will be murdered; but, il young, they carried
captives into the Indian nation, and made the common
slaves and servants OF ALL and there that stuaiion live
through existence of many years, unless the Almighty,
in His mercies, peases call them, in their youthful
days. away from their suferings; they commit that
crime for which there is pardonhe crime OF suicide
Now, these exaggerated statements. no uncom-
mon occurrences frontier; and can any person,
with knowledge OF these facts be surprised at Texas
for Keeling if she had been neglected for the last two
years. and for thinking that justice has not been done
her, when her many representing these truths
many letters, both private and pubcmany newspaper
accounlshaye all failed to draw the necessary assistance
to her frontier She feels and grieved at the treat
she has received from the general government and
who blame her for doing And yet she is lenien
She is willing 10 presume that Congress has not under
STOOD and has been fully Of her siua
ton as to her frontier and that il will now hasten to
make amends for its past neglect, far lies in its
power, by remedying the evil for the future and az
OF her citizens, do certainly believe that such will be
the case, and trust | may not be disappointed.
Most respectfully, your obedient servant,