. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . n Monday, the 22d,the condemned were separated from the other prison-ers to another prison. On the afternoon of the sameday, Colonel Miller, the officer in command at Manka-to, visited them, and announced the decision of thePresident. Addressing the interpreter, the Eev. Mr. Eiggs, hesaid: Tell these condemned men that the commandingof&cer of this place has called to speak to them upona very serious subject this afternoon. Their Great Father at Washington, after carefullyreading what the witnesses testified to in their severaltrials,
. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . n Monday, the 22d,the condemned were separated from the other prison-ers to another prison. On the afternoon of the sameday, Colonel Miller, the officer in command at Manka-to, visited them, and announced the decision of thePresident. Addressing the interpreter, the Eev. Mr. Eiggs, hesaid: Tell these condemned men that the commandingof&cer of this place has called to speak to them upona very serious subject this afternoon. Their Great Father at Washington, after carefullyreading what the witnesses testified to in their severaltrials, has come to the conclusion that they have eachbeen guilty of wantonly and wickedly murdering hiswhite children. And for this reason he has directedthat they each be hanged by the neck until they aredead, on next Friday; and that order will be carriedinto effect on that day, at ten oclock in the forenoon; That good ministers are here—both Catholic andProtestant—from among whom each one can select aspiritual adviser, who will be permitted to commune. M2 EXECUTION. 275 with them constantly during the four days that theyare yet to live; That I will now cause to be read the letter of theirGreat Father at Washington, first in English, and thenin their own language. (The Presidents order washere read.) Say to them now that they have so sinned againsttheir fellow-men that there is no hope for clemencyexcept in the mercy of God, through the merits of theblessed Eedeemer; and that I earnestly exhort themto apply to that, as their only remaining source ofcomfort and consolation. The St. Paul Press, to which I am indebted for thedetails of the execution, says: Yery naturally it would be expected that thisscene would be peculiarly solemn and distressing tothe doomed savages. To all appearances, however, itwas not so. The prisoners received their sentencevery coolly. At the close of the first paragraph theygave the usual grunt of approval; but as the secondwas being interpreted to them,
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