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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
That conversation seemed to be moved by the same impulse as that of the army, but it did not stop when the army was disbanded, because the people would, and did, freely and fully express their thoughts and feelings, beliefs and disbeliefs.
Sometimes, for a brief space of time, it would appear that the roar and echo of the thunder of those stormy times, were about dying away, when at the next moment, the heavens would instantly gather blackness, and the wise soothsayers would predict that we all would be engulfed in certain ruin that time, and no mistake.
^ The powers that were, had a restless ambition which must be gratified. Thus far, the results of all their operations had proved abortive, and consequently unsatisfactory. They were dissatisfied with the Indians, and the whites, and worse than all, they were dissatisfied with themselves. Therefore they cherished a lingering, hungering and thirsting for new opportunities for gratifying their insatiable appetite for more war and more blood and more glory. If they incessantly blew the war trumpet, and made tremendous war demonstrations, and kept up a rousing hallooballoo and din about war, they might possibly induce the Saukies to abandon their warfare in the distant northwest, and travel a distance of more than three hundred miles to make us a friendly visit: If they failed in that, they were sure they would succeed in creating, and in keeping an excitement up to a fever pitch, and in interrupting and deranging all the industrial operations during that entire summer, which would result in disappointing the hopes of the poor settlers. Accordingly, about ten or twelve days after the old prairie battalion had returned home at the close of that last, and ever memorable campaign, a messenger was dispatched from headquarters.
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