Upper Mississippi: Or, Historical Sketches of the Moundbuilders, the Indian Tribes, And the ...
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This system of extermination was practiced in the King Philip's war by the people of Massachusetts, by the Dutch of Manhattan, and the battle of Bad Ax showed no change. Even in this Sioux war we have taken com- paratively no prisoners, except such as the civilized Indians voluntarily delivered up to General Sibley, thirty -three of whom were tried, convicted, and hung, for aiding in the war, and nearly two hundred and seventy more were lately under the sentence of death, which the President re...fused to carry into effect.
But agent Galbraith evidently comes nearer the merits of the cause of the war, when he states in his report that the Sioux " recited that, at the treaty, it was promised them that each one of them should have one blanket at least every year, and plenty of pork, flour and sugar to eat, and that every hunter should have his gun, and all the ammu- nition he wanted; that white men would be hired to do all their work, and that coffee, tea, tobacco, hatchets, and such like, in large quantities, would be furnished them, and they should have ' all they wanted ;' in addition to all of which Hosted by Google 248 UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This system of extermination was practiced in the King Philip's war by the people of Massachusetts, by the Dutch of Manhattan, and the battle of Bad Ax showed no change. Even in this Sioux war we have taken com- paratively no prisoners, except such as the civilized Indians voluntarily delivered up to General Sibley, thirty -three of whom were tried, convicted, and hung, for aiding in the war, and nearly two hundred and seventy more were lately under the sentence of death, which the President re...fused to carry into effect.
But agent Galbraith evidently comes nearer the merits of the cause of the war, when he states in his report that the Sioux " recited that, at the treaty, it was promised them that each one of them should have one blanket at least every year, and plenty of pork, flour and sugar to eat, and that every hunter should have his gun, and all the ammu- nition he wanted; that white men would be hired to do all their work, and that coffee, tea, tobacco, hatchets, and such like, in large quantities, would be furnished them, and they should have ' all they wanted ;' in addition to all of which Hosted by Google 248 UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
What to read after Upper Mississippi: Or, Historical Sketches of the Moundbuilders, the Indian Tribes, And the ...?
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