If you are going to pay these claims in Texas because these Indians are in amity. do you suppose that the people of Kansas and Nebraska are not coming back to have the word "amity" stricken out next year. when it was in those States that the Indians went on the warpath and destroyed the lives and property of our settlers? Do you suppose the Congress. of the United States can preserve the policy of paying a lot of people who neglected to take out naturalization papers and at the same time refuse payment to honest citizens of the country who suffered at the hands of the Indians? I simply say that we are entering upon a policy of paying all Indian claims. and you can reason about it as you please. but you will come back to the proposition that if you pay these claims you ought to pay all Indian claims.
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