The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 7, July 1903 - April, 1904 Page: 137
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The Cherokee Indians in Texas. 137
against Norris and Sepulveda, and tried them and found them
guilty, but released them on condition that they never hold any
office in the district. After remaining in Nacogdoches about a
week, they returned to their homes and disbanded.1 The whole
proceeding was not an act of rebellion against the Mexican govern-
ment, but an attempt on the part of outraged citizens to free them-
selves of a set of oligarchs, who not only tyrannized over them at
home, but lost no opportunity to heap slander and abuse upon them
in their communications to the superior authorities. But instead of
taking warning from this episode, the Mexicans converted it into
fuel with which to make the flames of hatred and jealousy burn
still more fiercely.
When Norris and Sepulveda were arrested, Manuel Santos, a
subaltern of the latter, collected a few adherents and a lot of Indi-
ans to liberate the prisoners.2 The Mexicans found the Cherokees
hostile; they concluded that the Americans had been among them
and incited them against the government.a They doubled their
exertions, therefore, to attach as many of the other tribes to their
party as possible.'
of the court-martial, J. Roberts, major, B. J. Thompson, captain, J. W.
Mayo and William Jones, members of the court-martial, and H. B. Mayo,
major and judge-advocate of the court-martial.
1This summary is made from S. F. Austin's letter to the political chief,
dated December 4, 1826. File 214, Nacogdoches Archives. Austin obtained
his information from two men who had just arrived from Nacogdoches.
For accounts by the opponents of the Americans, see Patricio de Torres
to political chief, November 11, and to postmaster at Bexar, Nov. 28, 1826
(Bexar Archives); Sepulveda to political chief, November 28, 1826 (File
187, File 183. Ibid. Nacogdoches Archives); Jose Doste to political
chief, November 29, 1826.
2Patricio de Torres's and Sepulveda's letters of November 28, 1826,
referred to in the preceding note.
'Political chief to vice governor, November 26, 1826 (Blotter for 1826,
in Bexar Archives); vice governor to political chief, December 13, 1826
(Bexar Archives). See also B. W. Edwards's letter to Aylett C. Buckner,
p. 143 below.
'Sepulveda to political chief, December 3 and 15, 1826. Files 182 and
179, Nacogdoches Archives. "It should be here stated that a strong
motive for this alliance [between the Cherokees and Edwards] was derived
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