The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . termined to evict the settlers. A military demonstrationdrove him back, and he was persuaded to sign a treaty neverto return east of the Mississippi. I touched the goose-quillto the treaty and was determined to live in peace, he wroteafterwards; but hardly had he touched the goose-quill be-fore his heart smote him. Longing for his home, resentmentat the whites, obstinacy, broodin
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . termined to evict the settlers. A military demonstrationdrove him back, and he was persuaded to sign a treaty neverto return east of the Mississippi. I touched the goose-quillto the treaty and was determined to live in peace, he wroteafterwards; but hardly had he touched the goose-quill be-fore his heart smote him. Longing for his home, resentmentat the whites, obstinacy, brooding over the bad counsels ofWhite Cloud and his disciple, Neapope—an agitating Indianwho had recently been east to visit the British and their Indian allies, and who assured Black Hawk that the Winneba-goes, Ottawas, Chippewas, and Pottawottomies would joinhim in a struggle for his land, and that the British wouldsend him guns, ammunition, provisions, and clothing earlyin the spring—all persuaded the Hawk that he would be suc-cessful if he made an effort to drive out the whites. In spiteof the advice of many of his friends and of the Indian agentin the country, he crossed the river on April 6, 1832, and with. nm/pk \\< THE BLACK HAWK After a nortrait bv Georee Catlin, in the National Museum at Washington. ,andhere reproduced by the courtesy of the director Mr. G Brown Goode. MaWuneshekxa-kiak, the Black Hawk Sparrow, was born in 1<6/ on the I^ock luver. THE BLACK HAWK WAR 75 some five hundred braves, his squaws and children, marchedto the Prophets town, thirty-five miles up the Rock river. As soon as they heard of Black Hawks invasion, the set-tlers of the northwestern part of the State fled in a panic tothe forts; and from there rained petitions for protection onGovernor Reynolds. General Atkinson, who was at FortArmstrong, wrote to the governor for reinforcements; and,accordingly on the 16th of April Governor Reynolds sent outinfluential messengers with a sonorous
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