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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
They still retained a fresh and vivid recollection of the two campaigns in which they had served when their home duties were the most pressing, spending three of the best weeks in the whole year, the cream of the twelve months, besides a considerable outlay of money, all of which they were satisfied was useless and unnecessary. They thought they had been deceived and badly sold, and that the apprehended danger from the Saukies was preposterous in the extreme. They were also of the opinion that all the calls and demands, from first to last, had been irregular and illegal. It was therefore resolved to obey no more calls, unless there was satisfactory evidence that there was real danger, and that the demand emanated from such a source as had not only the legal authority to make the demand, but also to enforce obedience thereto. Not more than enough men to constitute a decent corporal's guard, could be collected at one time at Camp Jackson on Prairie
Ronde, notwithstanding the most vigorous and persistent efforts were made to arouse the people to a sense of their impending danger.
This is intended to represent the public sentiment, and lack of cooperation, after the gre"at and last campaign, which closed about the middle of May.
The people had learned there were no hostile Indians in the territory, and after mature reflection, that there was not the most distant probability that there would be any.
Michigan
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