1832 paper: BLACK HAWK WAR; Sauks & Winnebagoes, Gen. Winfield Scott; Wisconsin

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Christian Advocate & Journal
and Zion’s Herald
Sept. 21,
1832
Black Hawk War
This is a newspaper which was
published over 180 years ago
in New York City. It measures 17 x 22 inches in size and is 4 pages long. It came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at the spine. It shows some small browning spots from age (see photos), but is still in excellent and attractive condition, printed on a high quality of paper. The paper will be shipped folded once.
The
Christian Advocate
was a publication of the Methodist Episcopal Church, so most of its content addresses religious subjects. However, it also carried some material of general interest, and this issue has an interesting article on the Black Hawk War.
The piece has only a small heading, saying
“BLACK HAWK,”
but is nicely detailed in its description. The story takes up over 7 column inches of space, running for 70 lines of text, in very small print.
It says, in part:
BLACK HAWK.—Through the politeness of his excellency, the Secretary of war, we have had access to the despatches from the seat of war. In a letter from Gen. Scott, dated Fort Armstrong, 19th Aug., he was engaged in the examination of the prisoners taken, and those who have since surrendered, in all one hundred and eighteen. . . . it appears that the Winnebagoes are likely to be implicated. . . . there were at one time, ten lodges of Winnebagoes with Black Hawk’s party, and that Winnebagoes brought in scalps eight different times. . . the agent St. Vrail was killed by Winnebagoes . . . the general . . . has demanded . . . that their chiefs, warriors, and principal men meet him . . . and that they bring with them such Sacs, Foxes, and Kickapoos of Black Hawk’s party as may have taken refuge among them. . . .
Na Pope the principal war chief of Black Hawk’s band . . . says, “That he always belonged to the Black Hawk’s band . . . when he came back . . . by the treaty with Gen. Gaines, the Sacs had moved across the Mississippi: he remained during the winter with the prophet, on Rock river . . .
“We encamped n Syracuse creek, we met some Pottawatamies, and I made a feast for them. . . . there were some Americans near us (Stillmans.) I prepared a white flag . . . Before feast was finished, I heard my young men were killed . . . the Americans were seen rushing on to our camp” . . . the Winnebagoes [joined Black Hawk], and brought in scalps frequently . . . when they found that the Sacs would be beaten, they turned against them.
Na-ni-sa, a Sac woman, aged 25, sister of a head warrior, stated that, in the hottest of the fight on the 2d of August, she kept her infant close in her blanket by the force of her teeth.—seized a horse’s tail and got across the Mississippi, where they were afterward attacked by the Sioux. . . .
The article concludes by saying:
The persons examined say that when the boat appeared in the Mississippi, Black Hawk told the women and children that he pitied them—that he would surrender to save them.—He got a white flag and hallooed to the boat twice. The boat, however, fired on them twice, when Black Hawk told the men to fire too. None of them know where Black Hawk or the prophet have taken refuge, but suppose they have gone to the Pottawatamies of Ottaways, between Green Bay and Chicago.
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