The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-29

Government; but es the white people same the,
settled wherever they pleased, ~plouRhing up tn,
fields which tho Indians had planted and Hppro
It was determined 10 remove the Indians, but
Black Hawk, profoundly impressed with u,
arrival Of the soldiers, which had been threat
sned, with their great war chief, Accord.
tnEiy; when mi ,his pssrsSnaEc nrrivsd, = gree,
"ths war chief" warning them that they had
the DSeg M iESI 81 ipr'i black H1S G Ha%F REPLIED ShH 70 west Oh
we nave never sold our country; we nave
can ffather' and We are %"d dsterm afD% to hold on
Who i Black Hawk Who Is Black Hawk"
am a Sac, Ny forcfather was a Sac, All
tho nations cali me a Saol' This savage noble.
was told that the General neither came to beg
nor hire them to leave their village.
,,v W'iI remove E9n pseaGaHiy u ! can n I l2Tci,
to remove" said the General. The council
broke up In confusion.
fort to ask that her people could remain long
enough to gather their crops in the heldsi and
quest, but il was deniod. Then a steamboat was
anchored near them full OF soldiers. The In
diana crossed the. river In the night. To com;
ponsate them for their crops corn was promised
them. which. however, was entirely inadequate
to their wants, The women and children
In the night party went across the river to Sc;
cure vegetables from the fields which they had
planted. The whites had no regard S for a flag
The war which terminated with tho battle Of
Bad AZ, In 1882, was then at an end, after a
great reduction of the warriors of Black Hawks
band. The American forces were in command
ia somewhat apocryphal, nut | think it is in the
main true. 1t is u very sad story. Antoine LIE
S .h9a e, to whom G1 IL i was aiet SsId in wa snn a jrs ssIssm
by whites and Indians. In his affidavit ap-
pended to the narrative he says:
lin accordance with Black Hawks request l
cautious to understand the narrative through
out, and have no hesitation in pronouncing 1t
true In every particular"
Black Hawks dedication OF the work to his
captor, Gen, Atkinson, is pathetic, and u trans
latton Is here given. He wnsa prisoner at Jeier-
son Barracks. and ut the time was 81 years old.
He says to Gen. Atkinson:
Sir! The changes of fortune have made you
my cunQueror. The story of my life Is intimately
connected with a part of the history OF your
Before set out on my journey to, the laud OF
my fathers | have determined to give my mo-
tives and reasons for my former hostillties to
the whites. and to vindicate my character from
misrepresentation. | am now an obscure mem
Der of u nation that formerly honored and re-
the humility that the power OF the American
Government has reduced me TO. is the wish OF
him who In his native florists Was once as
This sketch is not a history, of the war. but
u " " II TaCtcT shttCll. llhb lluht ubplll-
~ and religious feeling of the Sac as n nation is
exemplifed by an incident which occurred in
1871. 1t Is told in the sou venirs of the Prince
de Joinyille, when he made the descent of the
Mississippi. The Territory OF Iowa, which he
tween the whites and the Indians. The Prince
Gays In his book:
"A party of Indians came on board at st,
Louis. They were on their way to Washington to
lay their grievances before the President. They
had the most resolute and impassive counte-
nauces, and behaved with the greatest dignity.
never showing any excitement except when We
passed the conhuence, OF the MISSISSIPPI, with
the Missouri River. There was a splendid sun
set. The Indians assembled in the stern of the
boat and repeated a kind of inyocatory prayer.
II was n perfect picture"
The history OF the wrongs inflicted on the In
dians of the Rock River country is only a repeti-
tion OF those inflicted on the tribes elsow here.
It is the testimony of those who have lived
among them that they are. when in "A state Of
nature. remarkably free from the vices usually
attributed to sayages.