What to see in America . It wasabout 1829 that the celebrated Black Hawk, then sixty yearsof age, endeavored to rally all the Western Indians into aconfederation to resist farther encroachments of the whites,but he only succeeded in persuading the young and restlessof two tribes, the Sacs and Foxes. With these followers hemade his headquarters on the north side of Rock River abouta mile from its junction with the Mississippi, on a highbluff since known as Black Hawks Watch Tower. Thesituation became so threatening that troops were called out,and when, in May, 1832, Black Hawk withdrew up the r
What to see in America . It wasabout 1829 that the celebrated Black Hawk, then sixty yearsof age, endeavored to rally all the Western Indians into aconfederation to resist farther encroachments of the whites,but he only succeeded in persuading the young and restlessof two tribes, the Sacs and Foxes. With these followers hemade his headquarters on the north side of Rock River abouta mile from its junction with the Mississippi, on a highbluff since known as Black Hawks Watch Tower. Thesituation became so threatening that troops were called out,and when, in May, 1832, Black Hawk withdrew up the riverthey followed him. At a spot twenty-five miles beyondDixon they were disastrously defeated, and they retreatedin a panic. Then the Indians swarmed down on the ex-posed settlements andwrought sad havoc clearto the Illinois June 24 Black Hawkmade a violent attackon a log stockade withstrong blockhouses atthe corners, known asApple River Fort, inthe northwest corner ofThe Ohio at Cairo the State, fourteen milcs. Illinois 239 east of Galena. Thewomen and childrenhelped the twenty-fivemen in the fort bymolding bullets andloading guns, and atthe end of fifteen hoursthe besiegers with-drew. Later in theyear the Indians re-treated across the Wis-consin line. Illinois had its firstseat of government atKaskaskia, but whenit became a state in1818 commissionersselected as the site forits capital a bluff inthe wilderness besidethe Kaskaskia River, sixty miles east of Alton. They called it Vandalia, and laidit out with broad streets, and a handsome square whereonwas erected a two-story frame State House. One smallwagon served to transport at a single load the entire statearchives from Kaskaskia. Agitation for another removal ofthe capital at length developed, and in 1837 the legislatureselected Springfield from twenty-nine places that aspiredfor the distinction. Springfields settlement dates back to1819, when a single family from North Carolina made itshome there beside Spring C
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