Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board Among the North ...
Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board Among the North ...
Samuel Colcord Bartlett, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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-*][ am with you. Let us go to the agency, kill the traders, and tfi^ke their goods." Deacon Paul and Jplm Other4ay boldly resisted in council, at ^peril of their lives, but in vain. They then rescued th^ white families, conferred with the t|X)ops, organized opr |)osition, and afler.w^d delivered the prisoners. Little Crow and his vultures hurried to the lower agency, near Redwood, the aame day, surrounded the houses and stores in small squads, and 09 the firing of Digitized by Google SKETCHES ...OF THE MISSIONS. 87 the sigDal gun at the store where first they were told to ^^ eat dirt," they commenced an indiscriminate slaughter. When the horrid work was finished here, they scattered to spread it through the country. Messengers were sent to the upper Indians, and numerous bands engaged in the n^assacre. It was the evening of the 18th of August that word ca^le to Hazelwood of the slaughter, forty miles away, and of a band of $fty spldiers, hastening to the spot, driven back, with the loss of half their number, and all their arms.
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