The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, July 1920 - April, 1921 Page: 215
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
ton for the greater part of the summer and fall of 1841, was re-
called in a sharp letter of censure, and James Reily was sent armed
with full powers to negotiate a treaty. For a good part of this
year Webster was engaged in the Webster-Ashburton negotiations
over the Northeast boundary, and it was not until July 30, 1842,
that the draft of a treaty was signed by the Texan charge d'affaires
and the American secretary of state.10 The draft of the treaty
contained twenty-two articles, and followed generally the subjects
suggested by the Texan charge d'affaires in September, 1841.
Freedom of commercial intercourse was to be guaranteed, and
duties were to be reciprocal; the use of the Red River, and all
rivers having their sources or origin in Texas, and emptying into
the Mississippi, and even the Mississippi, were free to the navi-
gation of both parties; right of deposit was allowed without duties
while reshipment was being made, and raw cotton was to be im-
ported into each country for five years free of duty. Other articles
dealt with blockade, rights of neutrals, prizes, and transference of
property. A consular service was provided for, and a final article
provided for extradition of criminals.
The main cause for demanding a treaty on the part of Texas
was the unsatisfactory situation with regard to the border Indians.
It will be remembered that the Texans desired that the United
States guarantee Texas against the peaceable immigration of
United States Indians, and that the United States should remove
those which had come into Texas from the United States. Before
negotiations got under way, however, Texas had surrendered that
point, and the agreement was according to the contention of the
United States, with ambiguities removed. It was agreed "that
the two contracting parties, by all the means in their power, main-
tain peace and harmony among the several Indian tribes who in-
habit the lands adjacent to the lines and rivers which form the
boundaries of the two countries," and in order to attain that re-
sult force was to be used, "so that Texas will not permit the In-
dians residing within her territory, to attack the citizens of the
United States or the Indians residing within the limits of the
United States, nor will the. United States suffer their Indians to
attack the citizens of Texas nor the Indians inhabiting her terri-10Reiley to Jones, August 3, 1842, Dip. Cor. Teo., I, 576.
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