The daily union., 1854-07-23

the utmo calling the attention this govern
men TO those tpuatons in the treaty between the United
States and Mexico of the 9Th of April 1881 which relate TO
Indian incursions and depredons and transmitting sundr
documents eyncive schemes Mexican authorities
cite Indians within the territory of the United States and OF
the disposition OF those Indians to wage war upon the cit
copy of your note and the original documents which
companied it, have been communicated to the Secretary OF
War whose province to the relations of this
government within the Indian tribes soil and who WILL
doubt The best energies Of his department o@ords tic
The original commissions Indian chiefs, which you
requested might be returned to YOU are herewith enclosed
avail myself Of this occasion to renew to you the assnr
''''S' y my wy ''eN''s '''"'' '' JOHN FORSYTH
r.. G. DUNLAP, Esq &C., &C., sc.
Mr. Poinset then Secretary of War; under date Of the
18th Of July, 1889, uses this language;
although fully convinced these orders have been
punctualy obeyed and that the United States officers viii
use due vigilance in their execution still they shall be reiter
aed and the Texan government rely oxer-
ton being made on our part TO Ja on treaty stPafoo"s IN
this particuior.'
Mr. Crawford Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in letter
to Mr.. Armstrong Indian agent dated 25h of July 1889,
uses this language:
wi therefore, please yourself to prevent
any nroads upon Texas by Indians resident within
limits J such contemplated they must be
terae'cd and nceay obligations fdatuly discharged"
could 60 and read similar statements from Mr.
Webster while Secretary of State but surely this is enough
to establish my first proposition
This brings me to the question this government
complied with its obligations this subccti The first
evidence shall adduce this head is treaty entered
into by this government with the Caddoe tribe OF Indians
then residing in Louisiana made first day OF July, 1885,
and proclaimed by the President the I'd of February,
1886 The second article Of that treaty in these Words
ART. 1.-THE said Chiefs head-mcn and warriors of the
said nation Caddoes do voluntarily renquish their pos
session the territory of land aforesaid and promise
their expense the boundaries of the
United States and the Territories belonging and appertan
ing thereto within the period of from and after the
signing of this treaty. and return to live, SETTLE
establish themselves nation tribe community Of
people within the same" ~" ~ Itt ~
BY other articles of this treaty the Caddoe Indians ceded
the United States quantity Of land lying in louisiana
for which thirty thousand dollars be paid TO them
in goods and horses at once thousand dollars in money
before the first day of September 1885, and ten thousand
dollars year for four years thereafter. This treaty
made about the time the revolution in Texas began the
indians received large part of their first thirty thousand
dollars in and ammunton with which, in hostile
array they marched into the of Nacogdoches where
then resided and demanded of the political chief that he
should assign them lands in Texas, which refused.
They then went out among the wild Indians settled and
began upon frontier which they kept up until
within few years past Once every year. for the succeed
ing four years they made trip from the prarios to
Shreveport in Louisiana, where they received ten thou
sand dollars each year, which they laid out in and
muton be used in their warfare upon Texas Not only
did the Caddoes do this but they furnished and mun
ons to several other tribes of Indians and ncted them to
upon Texas. There was single year in which in
their journey from the praes TO Shreveport they did not
steal from and commit murders upon the people of Texas
We had scarcely engagement with the Indians in
which Caddoes not found among the enemy. Upon
Soteen Of Gcpenses incurred by the republic Of Iecas pro
prooct,g her frontiers from The ucnrsioRs Of, Ind