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thers done more than the rulers of your people have 

 done? and what crime has this man committed by- 

 executing, in a summary way, the laws of his nation 

 and the injunctions of his God ? 



SPEECH OF BLACK HAWK, WHEN HE SUEEENDEEED HIM- 

 SELF TO THE AGENT AT PEAJEIE DU CHTEN. 



You have taken me prisoner with all my warriors. 

 I am much grieved, for I expected, if I did not defeat 

 3 r ou, to hold out much longer, and give more trouble 

 before I surrendered. I tried hard to bring you into 

 ambush, but your last general, understands Indian 

 fighting. I determined to rush on you, and fight you 

 face to face ; I fought hard. But your guns were 

 well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, 

 and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the 

 trees in winter. My warriors fell around me; it 

 began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand. 

 The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night 

 it sank in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of 

 fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black 

 Hawk. His heart is dead, and no longer beats quick 

 in his bosom. He is now a prisoner to the white 

 man ; they will do with him as they wish. But he 

 can stand torture and is not afraid of death. He is 

 no coward. Black Hawk is an Indian. He has done 

 nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. 

 He has fought for his countrymen, the souaws and 



