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The Federal Indian Policy in Texas., 1845-1860
Indians was thought to have been the cause.'1 People suspected
a man by the name of Cornett, who was killed by rangers the next
year in the same part of the country.132 A. B. Greenwood, in his
report of November 26, 1859, to Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the
Interior, said that Neighbors was murdered by some one or ones
"whose vengeful animosity he had probably incurred by his zealous
and uncompromising efforts to protect the Indians and their prop-
erty from wrong."13s
7. Indians in Texas after the Removal
Attempts to remove the Creeks.-In 1857 citizens of Polk
County presented a petition to the Legislature for the removal
of the Creeks from that county. This was referred to the Com-
mittee on Indian Affairs, who reported that the efforts at colonizing
the Indians had failed, and advised the Governor to secure a new
home for them in the Indian Territory. The committee were in-
structed to introduce a bill for the removal. Mr. Kittrell of the
House offered a substitute which provided for their settlement on a
reservation on the western frontier of the state. Senator Kinney
offered the amendment that the Indians be settled in Nueces
County on consent of two-thirds of the citizens of the County-to
be determined by vote-and of the Indians. The House refused
to accept the amendment, whereupon the Senate withdrew it.U34
The Legislature approved a joint resolution, February 16, 1858,
for the removal by the Governor, with the consent of their chiefs,
of the Indians of Polk and Tyler Counties to a place to be selected
by him. It appropriated the sum of $5,000 to carry out the re-
moval.3 5 For some reason the removal was never effected, and
the only Indians who properly belonged to the state after 1860
were the Creeks the number of whom at that time was 403.36
Texas after the removal of the Indians.-The removal of the
Indians from Texas did not solve all Indian troubles for the state.
Their hostility was intensified because of their losses, and they
13136 Cong., 1 Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, pp. 701-702.
" Brown, A History of Texas, II, 379.
13336 Cong., 1 Sess., Senate Doc. No. 2, p. 383.
"'House Journal, 7 Texas Legis., 1857, pp. 359, 588, 629-630, 835, 873, 902.
" Gammel, Laws of Texas, IV, 282.
.'U. S. Gensus Report, 1860, p. 487; Thrall, History of Texas, 467.123
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