Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Količina 7Texas State Historical Association, 1904 |
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Stran 164 - Art. 1. In order to secure the peace and tranquility of the state, the government is authorized to select, out of the vacant lands of Texas, that land which may appear most appropriate for the location of the peaceable and civilized Indians which may have been introduced into Texas. "Art. 2. It shall establish with them a line of defense along the frontier to secure the state against the incursions of barbarous tribes.
Stran 178 - The age of cotton became the golden age of our Southern brethren. It gratified their desire for improvement and accumulation, at the same time that it excited it. The desire grew by what it fed upon, and there soon came to be an eagerness for other territory, a new area or new areas for the cultivation of the cotton crop; and measures leading to this result were brought about rapidly, one after another, under the lead of Southern men at the head of the government, they having a majority in both branches...
Stran 63 - I was engaged in the sharp conflict at the Mission of Conception, 28th Oct. I 'In a later paper of the same collection is found the following note: "In the recollections of Joel W. Robinson, in the account of the attack on the Keechi tribe in 1835, it should have been stated that two of the Indians were killed — after which their village was burned. Papers were found in the village which were known to have been on the person of a young man named Edwards who was killed by Indians 20 miles below...
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Stran 119 - ... by electing you their chief. we all wish to live with you like brothers you know we have never deceived you it is not by maddening war that we are to progress in civilation or the comforts of life it is by a firm and lasting peace by a friendly intercourse like that which exists between brothers. If your claims for lands were not granted at a time when the Government was not firmly established that should not be a cause of war ask and it will [be] given to you this nation has always felt friendly...