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The Federal Indian Policy in Texas, 1845-1860
scalps, and was then "prowling" around the reservations. Four
days later, he wrote Neighbors again, saying that he had asked
Captain Plummer of the United States cavalry for aid. Lieutenant
Burnett, who came from Camp Cooper with reinforcements, said
Baylor, had made an attack on the Comanche reserve and some of
the cavalry were in pursuit.06 On May 26, 1859, Captain Plum-
mer informed the assistant adjutant general that Baylor with a
force of about two hundred fifty men had defied United States
authority and attacked the Brazos Agency.'07 Neighbors wrote
Greenwood, the Indian Commissioner, on June 10, that the Baylor
party had apparently disbanded, after stealing horses from the
the Brazos Agency, and from citizens around it, waylaying roads,
stopping travelers, robbing wagons, and stopping mails for about
five trips.s0
Citizens of Parker County met at Weatherford on June 24, 1859,
and appointed a committee with John R. Baylor as chairman to
express their views on Indian troubles. The citizens of sister
counties had organized an expedition and gone to the reservations
to repair their injuries and remove a nuisance-the reservation
Indians-and many citizens of Parker County had joined them.
The committee declared that the people were actuated by the best
motives; they were doing for themselves what the Federal Govern-
ment had failed and refused to do. The citizens had therefore
pledged themselves to help their sister counties in any action
which they deemed necessary for the protection of the frontier and
the removal of the Indians "whether the same be over Jordan or
Red River." They declared that they would resist any attempt
to arrest any one engaged in that expedition, no matter by what
authority such attempt was made, and recommended the organiza-
tion of the militia of Parker County for the immediate removal of
the Indians or the utter destruction of the reservations.'0J The
Weatherford citizens published an article in the papers under the
heading of "Frontier News-Extra," addressed "To the Citizens and
Friends of the Frontier Counties of the State of Texas." It in-
cluded the following paragraph:
1036 Cong., 1 Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, pp. 639-640.
10'36 Cong., 1 Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, pp. 644-645.
10s36 Cong., 1 Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, p. 649.
1036 Cong., i Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, pp. 684-685.117
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