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The Cherokee Indians in Texas.
preferred rather to belong to the Mexican nation: that Don Juan
Francisco Azcarate was well posted on this subject, since the pre-
ceding government had charged him with this and like matters,
and that it was possible, therefore, to ask him to report in order
that congress might proceed with full knowledge."' The congress
adopted Sr. Mendiola's suggestions; but, when Sr. Azcarate
reported on April 29, he simply recommended the action which the
executive had taken in the meantime.2
The action taken by the executive relative to the Cherokees,
referred to by Sr. Azcarate, took the form of the following resolu-
tion, which was addressed to Don Felipe de la Garza, successor to
Gaspar Lopez as commandant general of the Eastern Internal Prov-
inces:
"The Supreme Executive Power, has been pleased to resolve that
Richard Fields chief of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians, and his
companions now in this Capital, may return to their country, and
that they be supplied with whatever may be necessary for that pur-
pose. Therefore, Their Supreme Highnesses have directed me to
inform you, that although the agreement made on the 8th Novem-
ber 1822 between Richard Fields and Colonel Felix Trespalacios
Governor of Texas, remains provisionally in force, you are never-
theless, required to be very careful and vigilant, in regard to their
settlements, endeavoring to bring them towards the interior, and
at places least dangerous, not permitting for the present the
entrance of any new families of the Cherokee tribe, until the pub-
lication of the General Colonization law, which will establish the
rules and regulations to be observed, although the benefits to arise
from it, can not be extended to them, in relation to all of which,
'Diario de Congreso Constitwyente, 291. Translation.
For the extracts from the Journal of the Constituent Congress I am
indebted to my friend and teacher, the late Mr. Lester Gladstone Bugbee,
Adjunct Professor of History in the University of Texas.
2Diario de Congreso Constituyente, 379.
Sr. Azcarate's report was referred to the committee on colonization.
Whether this committee reported thereon, the writer has not been able
to ascertain as he has not had access to a copy of the Diario de Congreso
Constituyente. However, it is very probable that the committee made
no report, but put aside the petition of the Cherokees like those of Hay-
den Edwards, Robert Leftwich, James Wilkinson and others, in order to
give its undivided attention to the formulation of a general colonization
law which would dispose of all of these petitions.105
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