The Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest 1825-1916: Volume 2 Page: 335

                                
TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845

Sir,
Your are hereby appointed Secretary
to the Commissioners authorized by his Excy the President to
meet in council with various Indian tribes at Torreys Trading
House on Tehuacana Creek on the twelfth of September. You
will proceed to that place and report for duty to Messrs E More-
house J C Neill and Thos I Smith Commissioners.
I have the honor to be
Your obt Svt
Wm G Cooke
Secy of War and Marine
Indian Council Ground,
Friday Septr 12, 1845.
This day Col J C Neill and Gen E Morehouse Commissioners,
with their Secy Danl D Culp acting under instructions from the
Hon, Wm G Cooke Secy of War of the Republic of Texas, accom-
panied by L H Williams and Mr. Sloat Indian Agents, and "Jim
Shaw" interpreter, left Torreys Trading House, and proceeded
to the Brazos River for the purpose of meeting the Comanche
Indians, brought in by Mr Sloat, Special Agent for that tribe,
for the purpose of attending the Annual Council; and having
met them in peace and friendship, proceeded up the River to
the Council Ground near Tehuacana Creek, four miles from the
Trading House, and encamped. Mo-pe-chu-cope, head chief of
the Comanche with eight of his civil and War Chiefs visited
the camp of the Coms, and after smoking the pipe of peace the
Coms. through their interpreter, informed them as follows:
"That they were happy to meet them as friends and as brothers,
that their Great Chief, the President, had sent them for the
purpose of renewing the friendship which had subsisted, be-
tween the Red and white men. That now their red brothers
could pass and repass, with their women and children to the
Trading House, unmolested by any one, that there they could
find such goods as they might wish to buy, and that the white
men would be glad to trade with them. That they need not be
the least uneasy, for the white people would not harm them,
and that if they heard any bad news, to come to the Coms, or
Agents, and all would be explained-That one of the Coms, Col
Smith, was not present, but that he would be in Council in a
few days, and that Majr Thos G Western the Superintendent of
Indian Affairs would be in Council also, in a few days, with a

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