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n i fpiriUtdIletetleQtten.B-MBelfiof sodowibeentrueskirtTdangandtheypeacbiooas himself.—Nat. Inttlligtnctr.August 28.We learn from the Mississippi, that on the 31st of July two or three hours before day, a party of from 80 to 100 Sacs and Fox Indians, surprised a Menominee Camp, three or four hundred yards above old Fort Crawford, on the east side of the Mississippi, and killed twenty-five oj the latter, and wounded many, jvho may probably recover. There were about thirty or forty Menominees, men, women and children in the camp,! men most of whom were drunk, and the F**o» women hud concealed their guns and T . | knives ts prevent their hUrting each (nor d’ | other. The Sacs and Foxes, though held _ ' gteatly superior in numbers, and attack- line Is : ,WR hy surprise, a drunken and unarmed the)( encampment, lost several men, who to n of, were seen to fall in the onset, and re- *ary to treated in less than ten minutes with Gen I* only a few scalps, pursued by tour or son |e five Meoomineee, who fired upon them “ $ v. j until they were half a mile below the. '• is village. , the,11 The party killed, consisted of one war : that chief, three heudiueo, four war riors, six , partoawomen and eleven children.The massacre of the Menominees. is a p.! most audacious aggresion.noi only against timi th | the unfortunate sufferers, but against the ie | suthority of the United States. i he lie ' Menominees Were on a visit to our post ||f I at Prairie du Chieo—were sleeping nij i under the fingoi the United States, and ,at almost under the guns olthe fort. I he be ; assailing party crossed from the \\r*i \ rnn i bank ol the Mississippi, and made their i avV| ite attack in defiance ot the powlt; r which i swi m- ■ has hitherto, in a great degree, hern ’ wa ,.,f enabled to hold in check, the fierce »m1^. tribes even when at a distance from the ph jr. military posts. The violence recently .rjl committed within the very precincts ot **^oi :e. the national authonty, will require the Tli)tl interposition of the government, that an j ing he example may be made by bringing the ! ef. murderers to justice.fulintoasst44dis|antiIban ho rlastioi
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Newport Mercury
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Sep 03, 1831
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