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132 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
resisting and defying the laws.' They reiterated the absolute
necessity of stationing a sufficient number of troops at Nacogdoches
to compel the Indians to settle where they would be least dangerous,
to make them obey the laws and respect the government from the
very beginning, and to maintain good order and suppress at the
outset any disturbance they might raise either alone or in union
with the white emigrants and thus to preserve the integrity of the
territory.2 All their petitions, however, fell on deaf ears until
Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara,5 commandant of the Eastern In-
ternal States, was removed and the energetic Anastasio Bustamante
put in his place. He reached headquarters about the end of
August,4 and immediately promised the troops asked for,' but
before they could reach Texas the mischief had begun.
1Political chief to the commander of Texas, August 6, 1826. Blotter
for 1826, in Bexar Archives.
2Political chief to vice governor, April 15, 1826 (Blotter for 1826, in
Bexar Archives.) The chief asks that troops be stationed at Nacog-
doches. In his letter to political chief, May 6, 1826 (Bexar Archives),
the vice governor says he laid the matter before the general government.
The secretary of war, writing through the vice governor to the political
chief, June 5, 1826 (the letter being preserved in the Bexar Archives),
says the matter has been referred to the commandant of the Eastern Inter-
nal States. Commander of Texas to political chief, June 11, and to com-
mander of Coahuila, July 9, 1826, two letters (Bexar Archives); political
chief to vice governor, July 9, 1826, two letters (Blotter for 1826, in Bexar
Archives) ; vice governor to political chief, July 29, 1826 (Record of Trans-
lations of Empresario Contracts, 88); political chief to commander of
Texas, and to vice governor, August 6, 1826 (Blotter for 1826, in Bexar
Archives; vice governor to political chief August 22, 1826 (Record of
Translations of Empresario Contracts, 89. General Land Office.)
8"In the first place Bernardo Guiterres has been removed from office
and yr. friend Genl. Anastacio Bustamente appointed in his place. The
Government is very much displeased at the conduct of Gutierres: he has
deceived them at every point relative to the state of Indian affairs in
this Department. The Government had made sufficient appropriations to
carry on the Indian War with 'energy but it appears he applied the appro-
priations of the Government to his own private use, and represented to the
Government that the Campaign was proceeding with all possible vigor."-
James Austin, San Antonio, to S. F. Austin, August 23, 1826. Austin
Papers.
'Filisola, Memorias, etc., I 127.
'Political chief to the alcalde of Nacogdoches, August 23, 1826. Blotter
for 1826, in Bexar Archives.
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