A History of Smith County, Texas Page: 36
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In iTovembeor lS5, 1 ,when wlar, clouds hung over Texas,
the Corsult.tiorn rnide a solemn pledge to the Indians acknowledging
their pa-st claiS.s and setting forth boundaries and
said: ?"We solemnly declare that w.e will guarantee to them
the peaceable enjoyment of their rights to their lands as
we do our own. We solemnly declare that all grants, surveys,
or loc:.tions of lands, within the bounds hereinbefore mentioned,
ilade after the settlement of the said Indians, are,
and of right, ought to be, utterly null and void."9
tc, the other hand, the whites also had good reason for
their decisio.-- to drive the Cherokees frora the state. These
Indians were charged with the murder and plunder of many inhabitants
residing among them and in their vicinity. The
Secretary of VWar of the Republic of Tex<s, I;n a public st&teaient
said that the action of the Cherokees in helping a few
survivors of the Killough massacre to re.ch the fort was only
a cunning scheme of the redskins to escape r-un Ishment for
the terrible atrocity that they had instigated.
Senator John H. Resdga'n, who at that tlie lived nearby
and was : ;ae.iber of the coni;5ssion sent by President Ltnmar
to ask the Indians to leave, sto ted that the guilt of the
Cherokees in the i-.illough murders 3sos very clear. Dog Shoot
and others of their leading men were recognized by the svrvivors
an:d complaints of thefts and murders by the Cherokees
9n0id, p. 2.
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