United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . the Senate, where he might better defendthe doctrines of his State. The President, having warned the peopleof South Carolina against pursuing those doctrines further, ordered abody of troops under General Scott to proceed to Charleston, and alsosent thither a man-of-war. At this display of force the leaders of thenullifying party quailed and receded from their position. Bloodshedwas happily avoided; and in the following spring the excitement wasa
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . the Senate, where he might better defendthe doctrines of his State. The President, having warned the peopleof South Carolina against pursuing those doctrines further, ordered abody of troops under General Scott to proceed to Charleston, and alsosent thither a man-of-war. At this display of force the leaders of thenullifying party quailed and receded from their position. Bloodshedwas happily avoided; and in the following spring the excitement wasallayed by a compromise. Mr. Clay brought forward and secured thepassage of a bill providing for a gradual reduction of the dutiescomplained of until, at the end of ten years, they should reach thestandard demanded by the South. In the spring of 1832 the Sac, Fox and Winnebago Indians ofWisconsin Territory began a war. They were incited and led by thefamous chief Black Hawk, who, like many great sachems before him,believed in the possibility of an Indian confederacy sufficiently pow-erful to beat back the whites. The lands of the Sacs and Foxes. DANIEL WEBSTER. 430 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. lying in the Rock River country of Illinois, had been purchased bythe government twenty-five years previously. The Indians, however,remained in the ceded territory, since there was no occasion for im-mediate occupation by the whites. When at last, after a quarter of acentury, the Indians were required to give possession, they caviled atthe old treaty, and refused to comply. The government insisted thatthe Red men should fulfill their contract, and hostilities began on thefrontier. The governor of Illinois called out the militia, and GeneralScott was sent with nine companies of artillery to Chicago. At thatplace his force was overtaken with the cholera, and he was preventedfrom co-operating with the troops of General Atkinson. The latter,however, waged a vigorous campaign against the India
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