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were U. S. Indians, and he considered himself justified in his
course."68
While the Shawnees and other northern Indians professed
friendship during this fall, 1838, Rusk had no confidence in
them. He wrote to Vice President Lamar, who was then candi-
date for the Presidency, that he was "clearly of opinion that the
most vigorous preparation should be made for it is clearly best
to avoid the crisis which [would] inevitably be produced by the
advance of a Mexican Army any distance into the Country."69
With the inauguration of Lamar as President, the government
pursued an aggressive policy towards the Indians that finally re-
sulted in the expulsion of the Cherokees from East Texas in the
,summer of 1839. President Lamar had appointed commission-
lers, "among the most respectable citizens of the Republic, and
had authorized them to value the unmovable property of the
Cherokees, which was understood to be their improvements on the
land, but not the land, and to pay them for these in money."'70
Soon afterwards, "Houston reviewed the campaign in a savage
speech at Nacogdoches. The Bowl was 'a better man' than 'his
murderers.' Houston's life was threatened as he left the hall and
the speech estranged some of his oldest supporters in Texas, in-
cluding Rusk, Adolphus Sterne and Henry Raguet."71
The humanitarian and idealistic policy of Houston was costly
to the Texans. The white man and the red man did not live in
"brotherly love" on the frontier. The red man took revenge for
the wrongs done him by rascally and unscrupulous whites, on
innocent women and children who lived too far from the settle-
ments for protection. Rusk sympathized with the impatience and
even terror of the Indians felt by the people in that section of
the country where he lived. While he had no sympathy with
land speculators, he did not believe the Indians settled in the
,eastern part of Texas had any just title to the land, having been
forced into Texas from the United States; and he felt that if the
Indians were not conquered and subdued, it would be necessary
esSpeech in U. S. Senate, June 14, 1848, in Congressional Globe, XVIII,
840-841.
OSterrett, Life of T. J. Rusk, 91.
"Reagan, John H., "Expulsion of the Cherokees from East Texas," in
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, I, 38-46.
'1James, The Raven, 309.284
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