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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
Any such movement on the part of the Saukies would be known to the Pottawattomies at once, by the entry of the Saukies into the Pottawattomies' country in northern Illinois, which would arouse their jealousy and resentment, and they would, if possible, prevent the further progress of the Saukies through their country. If the Pottawattomies were unable to maintain their ground against the advancing enemy, they would fall back this way, towards where more and more of their brethren, the Pottawattomies, would be found.
War, or serious difficulty, could exist but a short time between those two tribes, before all the Pottawattomies in Michigan would be aware of the fact, when they and the Ottawas, their friends and allies, would hasten to the scene of conflict by the hundreds and hundreds, so that the Saukies would be compelled to fall back or they would be annihilated. At all events their progress this way must have been so slow, that our-people would have had due notice so as to make ample preparations for their coming.
I am fully aware that these facts can be more easily learned and understood at the present time, than they could be at that time. But with all those difficulties in the way, it does appear to me that enough might have been learned, so that with a little reflection, and an ordinary share of discretion, and judicious management, more satisfactory results would have been reached and secured..
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