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Utica.appear*will 1)Cv igilante.I.ight Iithe watoi.f-(1I'rom the t * lobe, \ugu.«t Jl.Wc learn from the Mississippi, thaton the ‘.Ust of Julv, two or threehours before day, a parly of from 80 ; mainlal 100 Sacs and Fox Indians, surpri*- m\r cd n. Menominee camp, d or I nun- , )(“ ’dred yards above old Fort Crawford, • ! Ihstton the east side of the Mis*i**ippi, and killed twenty-live of the latter.Tin\\and wounded many, who may ptoh-Thcrc were about oilycsterdtirlr.ably recover. _or 10 Menominees, men, w omen and« Pelver w hl|| 7......7 Ichildren, in the camp, most of whom j here,I . I ... I v .. ,1 r.1 tl- nllltllwere drunk, and tlm women had lt;on-coaled their guns and knives to prevent their hurting each other. I beamptoi \\\lt; -oalirkaneSaes and Foxes, though greatly superior in number*, and attacking by surprise a drunken and unarmed • 11-lost several men. whocannolbe relicampment. lost several men, were seen to fall in the onset, and retreated in less than ten minutes1vwith only a few scalps, pursued by I or ,r Menominees, who lired upon them until they were halt a mile below the village.The party killed, consisted of onewar chief, three head men, four war-• 1 • 1 1Shdav c.y %o’cloc'Ira .luother?of tinr-nnriors, six women and eleven children. The massacre of the Menominees%» !*is a most audacious aggression, not only against the unfortunate stiller-tirocc* street take threw and sat thtiers, hut against the authority of theC. States. The Menominees were. on a vi'il to our post at Prune du-IChien—w ere sleeping under the flag' of the U. States, and almost underpenehis I)11Htvidedthe guns of the fort. The assailing party crossed from the west hank of the Mississippi, and made their attack in defiance of the power whichhas hitherto, in a great degree, beenenabled to hold in check the herccrecover thed athim.besiron hiat hi fou ncapscomic-alim]tribes, even w hen at a distance fromthe military posts.The violence recently committedFron7within the precincts ot the nationalithatorchi Iedauthority, will require the interposition of the arm of the government, *om that an example may hr* made by os I/»•iSSbybringing the murderers to ju*tice.of IInsurrection of slnvrs in I irgmi'i.wasdie?
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Norwalk Huron Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 12, 1831
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