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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
The supposition or expectation of such an occurrence was extremely preposterous, and all such notions and ideas must have originated in imaginations that were highly excited and disordered. My conclusions, I believe, will be made to appear reasonable from a cursory consideration of some of thefacts in the case. The real seat, or focal center of the war, was nearly three hundred miles from us. The entire destitution of mail facilities to that region of country, rendered it impossible to obtain anything like correct or satisfactory information. Consequently it was left for the imaginations and conjectures of the people to do their utmost and abundant work. It was supposed; that the Sauk, Fox, and the Sioux tribes of Indians were allied and firmly united together as one man and constituted the great principal or central controlling power. And to those three tribes (now become one) there was allied! their near neighbors, the Winnebagoes and Chippewa Indians. It was a long time before we heard of the name of Black Hawk, therefore it was the work of the imagination to create and enthrone some great, high and mighty sachem, or king, or emperor, and clothe his high and dreadful mightiness with plenary power. And with that great and overwhelming force, their neighbors, the Pottawattomies, either from fear or choice would readily coalesce. And to that already irresistible force would be added the Ottawas, for the Pottawattomies never go to war without the Ottawas. ' Those seven tribes, or nations thus leagued and allied together, in their onward march of blood and carnage, would sweep the country from the Mississippi to Detroit, leaving nothing but a barren, desolate waste behind them.
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