The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, July 1930 - April, 1931 Page: 281
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A Brief Study of Thomas J. Rusk, 1835-1856
Texas will have to fight two thirds of the Indians on the U S
frontier towards the people of Texas I have no unkind feelings
they have more than remunerated me by their good feelings for
all the sacrifices I have made and the services I have rendered
them To a few demagogues and speculators who while I was
doing all I could for the Country were slandering me and specu-
lating on the resources of the Country I wish no greater harm
than that they may be changed into honest men If cut off I
shall leave my wife and children much less than many men have
sold lots for in the City of Houston who never paid anything for
them except a sacrifice of Principle
Four days will bring you the news
Truly Yours
Tho J. Rusk
I would write more but have not time as we are just starting
James Smith owes me four hundred acres out of the South west
corner of the tract he lives on for which I have paid him but have
no writing61
In his campaign against the Caddoes, a tribe of United States
Indians living on the border between Texas and Louisiana, Rusk
pursued the marauding Indians into United States territory. The
United States Indian Agent at Shreveport, Mr. Charles A. Sewell,
had paid the Caddo Indians their annuity in arms and ammuni-
tions.2" The Indians, for more than twelve months, had been
depredating the Texas frontier in violation of the treaty between
the United States and Mexico (1831) which bound each country
to prevent hostile incursions of their Indians upon the territory
of the other."6 President Houston had protested to the United
States government, on March 1, 1837, against the depredations
of the Caddoes and urged the necessity of sending a force to
keep the Caddoes back.64 The situation was rendered more diffi-
cult by the fact that the boundary line was not definitely settled
at that time."6
General McLeod gives an account of the campaign against the
Caddoes:
61T. J. Rusk to David Rusk. Letter in the David Rusk Papers. Cour-
tesy of Miss Helen Rusk.
02Lamar Papers, II, 296-297, No. 882.
68Ibid.
"6Sterrett, Life of T. J. Rusk, 86.
"'Muckleroy, Anna, "The Indian Policy of the Republic of Texas," in
the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXVI, 25.281
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