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on Nacogdoches: by a band who had set out from New Orleans
under the guise of a surveying party going to mark out a grant
of land that had been made in Texas, but upon reaching the
border had assumed a warlike aspect and were planning the
descent on Nacogdoches with the assistance of the Cherokee In-
dians.78 In October of the same year he wrote that there was talk
of the United States taking control of the disorderly Mexican ter-
ritory south of the Red River, to prevent the Indians residing
there from making attacks on citizens of the United States north
of that river. Obregon advised his government to take steps to
prevent this.79 In April of 1828 Cafiedo complained to Poinsett
that a party of fifteen men from the United States had made an
irruption into Texas and at Nacogdoches had declared themselves
the advance guard of a. republican army consisting of several hun-
dred which was going to march on Bexar or Guadalupe. Poinsett
replied promptly that he would submit the matter to his govern-
ment and ask that measures be taken to prevent such movements.80
Indians were causing trouble by attacking each other across the
border. In July, 1828, Cafiedo called Poinsett's attention to the
fact that the Comanche Indians living in Mexican territory had
asked permission to pursue and recover property that had been
taken from them by Indians from the United States who had
returned thither. The request was denied through respect for the
territory of a. friendly state.8-
About the. middle of the year 1828 reports reached the govern-
ment in Mexico that Spanish refugees in New Orleans were plan-
ning to co-operate with the Spanish authorities in Cuba. in an
expedition to the Texas coast. Orders were at once despatched to
the governor of Coahuila and Texas to remove all Spaniards from
78Obregon to Secretario, 10 de Agosto de 1827, MS. Rel. Ext.
"Same to .same, 13 de Octubre de 1827, ibid.
80Cafiedo to Poinsett, April 12, 1828, Poinsett to Caiedo, April 19, 1828,
enclosures with Poinsett to Clay, July 14, 1828, MS. Dept. of St., Mex.,
Desp., IV. In Poinsett to Clay, April 23, 1828, MS. Dept. of St., Mex.,
Desp., III and H. Ex. Does., 25c., 2s., No. 351, p. 201, mention is made
of this raid; and also of the violation of Mexican sovereignty by a party
of one hundred hunters near the northern limit of California. Poinsett
explained that this was probably due to, ignorance of the, exact location
of the line.
81Cafiedo to Poinsett, July 15, 1828, enclosed with Poinsett to Clay,
July 16, 1828, MS. Dept. of St., Mex., Desp., IV; H. Em. Does., 25c., 2s.,
No. 351, p. 242.248
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