ORIGIN OF THE



SPEECH OF BLACK HAWK WHEN HE SURREN-o
   DERED HIMSELF TO THE AGENT AT
             PRAIRIE DU CHIEN.



  " You have taken
I amn much grieved,
you, to hold out muc



before
bush,
I dete
I foug
bullet:
ears ii
riors f
my ev
morni
ed liki



1 surrenders
but your last
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s flew like bi
ke the wind
Iell around n
Pi day at haii
ing, and at ni'
e a ball of fir



on Black Hawk.
quick in his bosom



men



they will dc



me prisoner with all my warriors.
for I expected, if I did not defeat



hE



d.
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sh
at 1
rds
thr



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longer, anci give n
I tried hard to br
neral understands
on you, and fight
your guns were w
3 in the air, and
rough the trees in



you more trouble
ring you into am-
Indian fighting.
you face to face,
,ell aimed. The
whizzed by our
winter. My war-



ie; it began to look dismal. I saw
d. The sun rose dim on us in the
ght it sank in a dark cloud, and look-
e. That was the last sun that shone
His heart is dead, and no longer beats
1. He is now a prisoner to the white
) with him as they wish. But he can



stand torture, and is not afraid of death. He is no cow-
ard. Black Hawk is an Indian.
  "He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to
be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the
squaws and papooses, acrinust white men ,who came,
year after year, to cheat them andtake away their lands.
You know the cause of our making war. It is known
to all white men. They ouaht to be ashamed of it. The
white men despise the Indians, and drive them from
their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The
white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him
spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians
do not steal.
  "' An Indian, who is as bad as the white men could
not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and
eat up by the wolves. The white men are bad school-
masters ; they carry false looks, and deal in false ac-
tions; they smile in the face of the poor Indian to cheat



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