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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
A NEW SENSATION.
It came to pass "in the course of human events, " in the midst of the Saukie war, and in the midst of the distressing fears of the Pottawattomies,
and at the time when they had all the cares and anxieties and perplexities of raising-and equipping armies, and during that state of awful suspense, when the imaginations of mankind were so wonderfully active and fruitful, the good people of Prairie Ronde were startled and horrified by a new discovery, which seemed from its' suspicious character and the magnitude of its gigantic proportions, that it would prove to be far more dangerous than all the ferocious Saukies and all the sleepy Pottawattomies combined, because, in fact;; the Saukies were so far from us that it was probable they would never even hear of us, and as for the Pottawattomies, the whites had taken the arms from a few of them in hopes of making friends of the whole tribe. But, however problematical all their notions might be respecting the Indians and all other great questions of those times, that new trouble was an undeniable, fixed, solemn fact, and was then at their own doors. That new calamity produced a profound sensation, and aroused their sensibilities to the highest pitch. It was the one great, dreadful, all-absorbing, awe-inspiring, all-confounding, never-to-be-forgotten event of that remarkable period in the history of the world.
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