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    This Example, which is richly deserved by them, will have a more wholesome effect upon other tribes, and may lead to quiet on the reservations, and a cessation of marauding on the adjacent frontiers of Texas, and probably avert a great Indian war.
    From your long acquaintance with the Kiowas, I am sure, you will not think, I have exaggerated their bad qualities, or their disposition and ability to keep up a war, when they can, and see no remedy for it, except in carrying out my recommendation, which I think entirely practicable and far from any element of cruelty.  If you concur in this, I hope the necessary (authority) may be obtained from the president, to carry it into effect.   If not approved, I hope some other effectual plan may be substituted for it.
                                                                     I am General, very respectfully
                                                                     Your obdt. servant
                                                             (Sgd.) C. C. Augur

1 Enclosure Brigadier General, U.S.A. 1571 D. T. '72. Commanding _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________