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TEXAS INDIAN WARS. 77
Sarah R. Dodson, to a company of volunteers, raised in Harrisburgh, Texas, in 1835,
and commanded by Capt. Andrew Robinson. This flag was a tri-color of white, red
and blue. The star was white, five-pointed, and set in a ground of red.
Can any one give us a minute description of the flag presented to the Georgia
Battalion by Miss Troutman? This will settle the question of maternity.
So far it will be seen that the insignia of the young Republic were the tributes of
spontaneous female patriotism, rendered glorious by the success of the Revolution.
They were afterwards modified and" adopted by Congress as follows: First by act of
Dec. 10th, 1836, the national standard of Texas--"Azure ground, with a large gold-
en star central; and national flag for the naval service, as adopted by the President
(Hon. David G. Burnet) at Harrisburgh, on the 9th day of April, 1836, the conform-
ation of which is union blue, star central, and thirteen stripes alternate red and
white." This act was amended Jan. 25th, 1839, as follows: "National arms, white
star of five points on azure ground, encircled by olive and live oak branches. Na-
tional flag, blue perpendicular stripe, width one third of the whole, white star of
five points in the centre, and two horizontal stripes of equal breadth, upper white
and lower red."
The annexation of Texas to the United States added our bunting, with the soil it
had so bravely floated over, to the territory of the Union. The association was fra-
ternal, and in color and design the two flags blended harmoniously. Justice and
equal rights, under the federal constitution, was the sanction of the treaty, and so
long as that is maintained, Texas will be loyal to her engagements with her sister
States. But if the compact is violated, and the Union fails to secure the objects for
which it was formed, Texas has an empire and a history of her own. She can fall
back upon her exhaustless, perennial resources. Her magnificent soil, climate, and
productions, with a brave people to defend them, will secure to them and their child-
ren, independence, freedom and happiness under the glorious Lone Star Flag.
TEXAS INDIANT WARS.
BY JOHN HENRY BROWN.
CHEROKEE AND WACO BATTLE IN 1829.
DURair the winter of 1828-9 a large band of the Cherokee Indians, looking forward
to a settlement in the territory of Texas, arrived on Red River on their way south.
Here they called a halt and determined to pitch their tents for a year or two, raise
corn, and "spy out land," before they came farther. They settled in two principal
villages, three or four miles apart, with small parties around in every direction for a
few miles. Some of their men had, it is supposed, visited the wild tribes, as far west
as the Brazos, before this.
They had not been at this place very long, before their villages were discovered
by a party of Wacos, on a robbing expedition from the Brazos ; and these free-boot-
.ers, true to their instincts'from time immemorial, lay concealed till the silent mid-
night hour, and then, stealthily entering the herds of the sleeping Cherokees, stam-
peded their horses, driving off a large number. To follow them was labor in vain--
but.to quietly forget the deed was not the maxim among the red sons of Tennessee.
A council was held, and the matter discussed. After the opinions of the warriors
had been given, the principal war-chief rose, and in substance said: " My brothers !
the wild men of the far-off Brazos have come into our camps while the Cherokee
slept! They have stolen our most useful property. Without horses we are poor,
and can not make corn. - The Cherokees will hasten to plant their corn for this spring,
and while that is springing from the ground and growing under the smiles of the
Great Spirit, and shall be waving around our women and children, we will leave some
old men and women to watch it, and the Cherokee braves will spring upon the cun-
niug Wacos of the Brazos, as they have sprung upon us."
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The Texas Almanac for 1861, book, 1860; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123767/m1/77/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.