The Black Hawk War: Including a Review of Black Hawk's LifeFrank E. Stevens, 1903 - 323 pages |
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Page 29 - Ouisconsing or on the right bank of the Mississippi, as the one or the other may be found most convenient; and a tract of land not exceeding two miles square shall be given for that purpose. And the said tribes do further agree, that they will at all times allow to traders and other persons travelling through their country under the authority of the United States a free and safe passage for themselves and their property of every description.
Page 289 - If General Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live, fighting Indians, it was more than I did ; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes ; and although I never fainted from the loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.
Page 239 - He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men— who came, year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.
Page 32 - On their arrival at St. Louis, they met their American father, and explained to him their business, and urged the release of their friend. The American chief told them he wanted land, and they...
Page 32 - Jeffreon, was ceded to the United States for one thousand dollars a year! I will leave it to the people of the United States to say, whether our nation was properly represented in this treaty? or whether we received a fair compensation for the extent of country ceded by those four individuals ? I could say much about this treaty, but I will not, at this time. It has been the origin of all our difficulties.
Page 239 - My warriors fell around me ; it began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk in a dark cloud and looked like a ball of . fire. This was the last sun that shone on Black Hawk.
Page 65 - A good spirit had care of it, who lived in a cave in the rocks, immediately under the place where the fort now stands, and has often been seen by our people. He was white, with large wings like a swan, but ten times larger.
Page 31 - This being the only means with us of saving a person who had killed another — and we then thought it was the same way with the whites!
Page 28 - ... no private revenge or retaliation shall take place; but instead thereof, complaint shall be made by the party injured to the other: By the said...
Page 289 - Mr. Speaker, if I should ever conclude to doff whatever our Democratic friends may suppose there is of black-cockade Federalism about me, and, thereupon, they shall take me up as their candidate for the Presidency, I protest they shall not make fun of me, as they have of General Cass, by attempting to write me into a military hero.