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it »afinEBHtfic most discordant elements; and each G1H5 regularly attending, bad the right to advocate vitb perfect freedom, whatever doctrine he may have chanced to hold- All classes, the high and the low, the believer and the unbeliever, hei'e met upon one common platform. Such discordant materials could not long mingle in harmony together, and this church, if-tex* two years duration, added another proof to- the many that liad gone before it, that “a house divided against itself cannot stand/’It may be proper to add, that the Rev. 'William Alanaou, Episcopal, resigned his charge of the “Mission at Southport and parts adjacent,” on the 27th of March, 1343.In the first part of September, 1835, three northern tribes of Indians, on their way home from a payment at Chicago, encountered a north east storm when opposite Kenosha, and were driven by stress of weather to xuake tho land, and discontinue their progress. They effected their landing on the Island, The lake w: shore side of the Island presented a lively and animated scene. Between four and five hundred Indians were landing simultaneously, and drawing their bark canocs upon the beftcli.The canoes were strewn upon the beach fromone end to the other of the Island. After the Indians had drawn out and secured their boats, they spread themselves oyer the Island. Among them wore to be seen all ages and conditions- j The old Indian upon whoso brow was to be seen j p* “tn inkle .1 care”—the aged and moJ liurly squaw—the middle aged, and the young'and : y athletic Indian lads, and tho Indian maidens, I ^ dressed in thoir holiday garments ; and theresoP«toaiaitoe:mhielfafoQCP*atsePcthalWiN.dsth»ewas also not wanting a lib oral supply of young j ^thbxex“native Americans.” All the usual parapher-zialia of Indian government, chiefs, prophets, and medicine men, were also present with their respective tribes. j ^Seeing no evidence of hostility on the part ^ ne of the Indians, the few se:tiers then at Keno- j th aha, lay down the first, night after tho arrival of the Indians, to quiet slumber and repose ; but bo on after midnight, they were awakened if by a terrible howling annng the Indiana, and they went dircci-y over to the Island, to ascertain the occasion of such a tumult. They soon learned from the Indians, that ono of their number had died, and that the noise was made for the purpose of keeping any Evil Spirit from entering into, or in any-latliPiorctcaTlwise intcrfeiiug with the body of the deceased.etthPE\Vf.IricltK-thaEh'r13litltlmThese tribes of Indiana remained on the Island for a peiiod of three weeks, before the weather became sufficiently settled to embark their canoes on the lake. The hunters of each tribe, were out every day, killing and bring- 1 ing in game, and tho Indian women went frequently to dig a root of which they made a bo up. These roots, or Indian potatoes, as they might be called, they dug at the edge of a ravine, in the second ward, near the old tavern, called the “Adam Schcndplace,” which is a little west nnd north of the present free school house.It required no small amount of food to supply such a body of Indians, and the hunters soon thinned out the game to such an extent that sufficient could not he obtained to supply the tribes, and the Indians began to suffer from want. While game was plenty, the Indians had shown no disposition to interfere9 | with the properly of the settlers; but itia saidJ that “hunger knows no law,” and the Indians ' at last appear to liavc been driven by necessity ? ^ to the same general conclusion.Mr. Bacon, previous to this time, had built a log house, about ten rodn south east from the first building put up at Kenosha, and had received his family and got into it, but had left in the original building, one full barrel of flour, and another barrel about half filled with The same material. The Indians, now suffering the extremes of hunger, detailed a detachment of their warriors, and sent them across to the last named, building to obtain food, by stealth or violence. The detachment, of eight or ten, formed in front of the door of the building, and stood erect, with their arms folded across Iheu* breasts, with their guns in their hands, while one of their number went into the building, and took the partly filled “ barrel of flour on his back, td walked off. Mr. Bacon observing all these movements, pursued the Indians, and recovered his flour; not, however, without overcoming a dogged and almost determined resolution on the partof tho Indian not to give it up. During ail this time, the armed Indians in front of the building, stood like lifeless, motionless etai-IIClult;y.o:cib:Oi01fta:tlSft:«.aa.it-13a*rPoaHa£Ct;ties.The settlors, moved by sympathy for the straitened circumstances of the Indians, drove an ox, on the following day, over to the Island, which they slaughtered and divided in small j pieces among them. Tho Indians, in many cases, threw down pieces of money as they re- i ccived pieces of meat, although not called upon to do so. They greedily devoured all p»r*« of the ox, not excepting the hide.Mr. Jason Lothrop, who while living East, had been many years a Baptist minister, andh1.I.
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Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Mar 18, 1858
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