New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-26

z:5V p M 100 001o1QotD rom abroad
in groups Of four, six and ton visited
the places where the memorable battle
Of the 23rd Of August 1862 waged the
hottest, and. although time and man
has edaced nearly al signs Of the ter
rible strife. mnch was found to recall
the sad scenes Of murder and
carnage. Mr.. Forster's brick building
on Broadway, with the loop holes,
through which the defenders sent forth
their messengers of death, still intact,
was visited BY hundreds of people, and
as the visitors passed from place to
place each one had some thrilling in
cident of the fight to relate.
The exercises for the afternoon were
opened at 2:30 with music by the two
bands. By this time the crowd in the
park numbered at least one thousand
ladies and gentlemen. Judge C.. E.
Flandreu, who came to the assistance
OF New Ulm on the evening of the first
day of the fight in command of the St.
Peter company, and was subsequently
elected commander of all the forces
then in the city, was introduced to the
assemblage byMayor Weschcke. Judge
Flandrau spoke as follows:
JUDGE FLANDRAU's SPEECH.
Fellow citizens and comrades st the
battle of New Ulm: We stand upon
historic ground. We meet to com
memorate an event very slightly known
to any of the people of the present gen
eration. but well remembered by those
whom we honor by the name of old
settlers-an event which, had it occurr-
ed under ordinary circumstances
would have engaged the attention of all
mankind; In event which in its i'm.
mediate elements included heroic sacri.
fees. and in Its ultimate results EN-.
bodied consequences the magnitude Of
which has never been understood. I,
is well that we are here to-day to talk
over this long-forgotten battle, and lay
before the state and the people the his.
tory of what transpired on this spot on
the 23d day of August 1862. In this
growing Western country, with its ever.
changing population, incidents happen
that in other lands under different con.
ditions would stir the people into en-.
thusiasm, but now scarcely create q rip.
pie on the surface of everyday life.
History has enbalmed the memory Of
Herkimer, who fell at the battle of Or.
iskany, and has classified tina: battle
among the decisive conflicts of the
world. Poetry has made eternal and
immortal the massacre of the Wyoming
valley. Brant and Red Jacket have
been handed down 10 US as terrible
specimens of the savage races to fright.
in children and make men shudder fol
the trials of their ancestors in the his.
toric ages of the settlement of the At
lantic region of our country. But the
battle of New Ulm has never received
more than q passing notice from the
newspapers of the state, and record in
two books that are about as we'll known
among our fellow countrymen at the
present day as the Koran or the new
version of the holy scriptures-no,
from any defect of the books, but be.
cause people will read the history Of
all countries but their own. Yet I AZ.
sert without fear of contradiction that
THE BATTLE OF NEW ULM.
and the massacre that immediately pre-.
coded 1t, were two events that are un.
equaled, the one in the superlative
magnitude of its horrors and the other
in its phenomenal success and impor-
tant consequences, since the settlement
of the American continent Had not
the Sioux met with the stubborn resist.
ance they received at New Ulm, and
been baffled as they were in their muir
derous assaults upon the settlements of
the state. the whole valley of the Min.
nesota would have fallen q prev to their
ravages, and St. Paul and Minneapolis
would have been sternly menaced, if
not overthrown. After twenty-three
years of progress and advancement.
in which time the state has been popu-
lated with multitudes of people, and
railroads have penetrated the uttermost
ends of the land, it seems q little like
exaggeration to say that q savage tribe
could sweep down upon our capital CITY
and lay it in ashes. But those who
know the situation as it existed TWENTY
three years ago. will agree with me
that the consequences I suggest are not
without the strongest probabilities to
rest upon.
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR.
The Judge here gave an account of the
causes which led to the uprising. Hav-
ing been the government agent of
those Indians thirty two years ago, he
was well acquainted with their charac.
ter, which he described in detail. Among
the Sioux was chief named Little
Crow, a man of considerable intelli-
gence, vain and ambitious, whom the
judge made his lieutenant and princi-
pal ambassador, and always found him
faithful. This was the man, however.
who melted the Indian revolt. The
Sioux WHO created all the difficulty
had, just before they were removed to
the reservation which they occupied at
the time of the outbreak, inhabited a
country which now composes all Min
nesota west of the Mississippi river and
a portion of Northern iowa. Two
treaties were made in 1851, and rati.
fed in 1853, by which they sold all.
their country and accepted certain an
nuities and goods and a reservation
twenty miles wide on the Minnesota
river. south of Fort Ridgely. The pay
ments under these treaties were to be-