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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
That intelligence, like a frightful monster, rolled and surged about an swept onward with resistless speed, having blood and carnage depicted on in front, and leaving consternation in its rear. It finally reached this Territory and that intelligence fell like an overwhelming avalanche upon our isolated defenseless settlements. It was so diffusive in its nature that it reached the log cabins in the different settlements almost simultaneously. It foul ready and easy access to every fireside, where it was eagerly devoured by the people. Soon it did its work on them most effectually, by stirring up to to. lowest depths all the acute sensibilities of their natures and electrifying eve muscle and fiber of their beings, and by inflaming their imaginations a: raising a general" excitement to the highest pinnacle. Then everything easily magnified a hundred fold, so that for every white killed by the Indiain
they saw before their own eyes a hundred bleeding corpses, and for every Indian they saw a hundred gleaming tomahawks, and for every sigh and moan of the wind, they heard the advancing rush and hoot of those hideous incarnates. So that we are fully prepared, and we do most cheerfully make a liberal and charitable allowance for all their blunders and mistakes and apparent want of discretion, and for their undue fears of danger that never threatened us.
Michigan
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