The experience of the last year furnishes additional reasons, I regret to say, of a painful character, for the recommendation heretofore made to provide for increasing the military force employed in the Territory inhabited by the Indians.
Pierce expresses concern over the need to increase military forces in territories inhabited by Native Americans due to recent experiences.
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