Annual Report and CollectionsState Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1892 After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings. |
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Sida 212 - As long as the lands which are now ceded to the United States remain their property, the Indians belonging to the said tribes shall enjoy the privilege of living and hunting upon them.
Sida 13 - the true University of these days is a collection of Books...
Sida 304 - ... we as Germans are not called upon here to form a separate nationality, but rather to contribute to the American nationality the strongest there is in us, and in place of our weakness to substitute the strength wherein our fellow-Americans excel us, and blend it with our wisdom. We should never forget that in the political life of this republic, we as Germans have no peculiar interests, but that the universal well-being is ours also.
Sida 233 - I expected to see them fight as the Americans did with the British during the last war! — but they had no such braves among them! I had resolved upon giving up the war — and sent a flag of peace to the American war chief — expecting, as a matter of right, reason and justice, that our flag would be respected...
Sida 251 - Myself and band having no means to descend the Ouisconsin, I started, over a rugged country, to go to the Mississippi, intending to cross it, and return to my nation. Many of our people were compelled to go on foot, for want of horses, which, in consequence of their having had nothing to eat for a long time, caused our march to be very slow. At length we arrived at the Mississippi, having lost some of our old men and little children, who perished on the way with hunger.
Sida 445 - I have had the pleasure, once in my life, of conversing with an absolute gentleman : one in whom all the little vanities, all the little greedinesses, all the paltry fuss, worry, affectation, haste, and anxiety springing from imperfectly disciplined self-love, — all had been consumed ; and the whole man was kind, serene, urbane, and utterly sincere. This perfect gentleman was a Roman Catholic bishop, who had spent thirty years- of his life in the woods near Lake Superior, trying (and failing, as...
Sida 219 - ... of our agent, told the same old story over about removing us. I was then satisfied, that this could not have been the cause. Our women had planted a few patches of corn, which was growing finely, and promised a subsistence for our children — but the white people again commenced ploughing it up / I now determined to put a stop to it, by clearing our country of the intruders.
Sida 219 - ... commenced ploughing it up! I now determined to put a stop to it, by clearing our country of the intruders. I went to the principal men and told them, that they must and should leave our country — and gave them until the middle of the next day, to remove in. The worst left within the time appointed — but the one who remained, represented, that his family, (which was large,) would be in a starving condition, if he went and left his crop — and promised to behave well, if I would consent to...
Sida xiii - Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Edited and annotated by Reuben G.
Sida 257 - Rock River was a beautiful country. I liked my town, my cornfields, and the home of my people. I fought for them.