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MURDER OF COMANCHE CHIEFS,
[1840.
was killed, and the once proud tribe, now broken in
strength and spirit, was forced to give up their rich lands
and seek other homes. Lamrar and his supporters claime(l
that the Cherokees had no just title to these lands, and,
even if they had, that the title was forfeited when the
Indians joined the Mexicans against the Texans. Others
believed the Cherokees had every right to their homes,
and that they were not justly treated.*
Murder of Comanche Chiefs.I-IHoping to iavoid more
bloodshed, the Texas officers invited the Collanches, who
had been very troublesome, to send a commlnittee to San
Antonio in order that a treaty might be drawn up. The
savages accepted the invitation a.nd promised to bring
with them all their white prisoners. On MAarch 1 9, 1840,
65 Comanches, including men, women, andl boys, entered
San Antonio. The twelve chiefs mIet in the council-house
with the Texas officials to consider the treaty. When
asked for their prisoners they pro:,(duclled a folurteen-.ealr-
old girl and stated that she was the only c(aptive they
held. The girl denied this; she saidl there weire
many more captives; that the Indians hlad decided to
give up only one or two at a time that the ransom ob-
tained might be greater. The Texas leader, having first
stationed a guard at all doors, ordered several soldiers to
enter the room, and then said to the chiefs: " You have
* It may seem very cruel to the young student, when he reads how the Indians
were driven from place to place, and hunted down like beasts, but he must remem-
ber the provocation his Texan ancestors had. In those dark days no mother on
our broad Western prairies ever rocked her babe to sleep at eventide without the
fear that the morning would find it torn from her arms and murdered by the
red men, who listened to no entreaty, whose hearts knew no such feeling as pity,
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Pennybacker, Anna J. Hardwicke. A new history of Texas for schools : also for general reading and for teachers preparing themselves for examination, book, 1895; Palestine, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2388/m1/232/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.