Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 49, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 November 1816 — Page 1

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THE WESTERN SUN.

From the Press of ELIHU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States.

Vol. 7. VTNCENNE8, (I.nd.) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1816. No. 49.

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THE WESTERN SUN, of the Ohio, the Wabash, the dieious, and we take much plea- bounds with fish, particularly a IS printed weekly at Two Dollars Missouri and Mississippi, Let sure in submitting them to our species of Sturgeon, which exannum,p:U in doance or an attested them be conducted west of the readers. The letter, too, encloses ceeds that of James river in the Note, payable at the end of the year, mountains, and they will find a the speech of a chief of the Win- richness and delicacy of it s flavor for Two dollars Sc Fifty Gents, boundless field for their enter- nebagoe tribe of Indians ; mark- and in the Spring and fall mvriNo Subscription will bt received for a less prise. Let those who can work ed with that peculiar vein of thot' ads of water fowl, attracted by term than one year and will not be die at agriculture come here. 6c they and expression which distinguish- the wild rice, darken the air continued untiU ail arrearges are paid, puiy in a short time find them- es the long talk of the Indians. This plant springs up in water 6 Where papers are sent by Post, the person selves the proprietors of rich and Camp on Fox river, Green Bay, or 7 feet deep, so thick as in masubscnbmg, must pay the postage beautiful farms. August 29, 1816. ny places to impede the progress ADvERnsEMFs rsof no more length than Indeed when we view the choi- In a letter which 1 addressed of boats and canoes. The Indibreath will be inserted three times for cest portion of our globe in a state yOU previous to my leaving Mac- ans call it Ma-no-men, and living

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particularly specify the number of time and at the same time think of the realized. In conformity to mv come ripe, they pass through it ir Advertisement's an to be continue millions of hungry poor, who expectations, early in July, the with their canes, & bending them td. Those sent without such Erections rag out a miserable existence in detachment of riflemen stationed over staike them with small sticks

tlie JEastern hemisphere, how de- at Mackinaw, received orders to and in a very short time nearly paid far accordingly. voutly have we wished that some repair to Green Bay, and there es- fill their canoes with the ffrain

All letters, addressed to the Editor, must benevolent Moses would lead tablish a fort with all convenient This, when cleaned becomes an

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hich remain wild, uncultivated, pursue, in returning to Virginia, pellation of Faulsavoins. or Wild

inhabited only by wild beasts ; These anticipations seem thus far rice eaters. When the head h-

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liouglits on immigration. the axe and guide the plough, sailed from Mackinaw on the peaceable aspect, but how lonv From the Georgetown Patriot, mav also emnlov their timr. and 9fith nf Jiilv last with tb c4w- this f nf tUimr w;ii

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in iu .vi5v uuui.Ki;. i;cn, ucia o tisuniiuii, tiyiic, ifxniK. i ci y imcciiain. ltnoUt a irt in the Atlantic states. Let & sloop Amelia, having on board great deal of circumspection on l bricklayers, the Btoi c masons, col. Miller, of the 3d regt, colonel the part of the Indian department e housewrights, the tanners, the C hambers of the rifle, maj. Gra- and a chain of posts properly ear-

In our last paper we took into skill to better advantage here, ners Washington, Wayne, Mink, is very uncertain Without

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reasons why we thought there shoemakers, and mechanics of e- tiot of the engineers, a detach- risoned, I have little hesitation in

was not so mucn Ganger to oe ap- very description come to Kentuc- ment of artillery under captain saying, that our frontiers once aprehended to our institutions ky, Ohio, Tennessee and India- Peirce, and four companies of gain will witness the horrors of from their introduction, as had na. and we promise that they the 3d infty. amounting in the savage warfare. The Winnebabeen Buggested by some of our shall find employment and high whole to 500 men. We entered goes, it is manifest, are decidedly statesmen. But whether the po- wages. the mouth of the river on the 7th opposed to our makino- any estalicy be a good or bad one, the ex- Now these foreigners are igno- of August, and, contrary to ex- blishment in this countrv,' as are isting laws of our country con- rant 6f all this, or perhaps if they pectations, received from the also a part of the Fulsavoins . tain no provisions against it ; on knew it, have not the means of French inhabitants and Indians a Nothing I believe, but the strong the contrary they hold out strong getting here. The expense of very friendly and flattering recep- force they have to combat, keens inducements to emigrants, by ex- transportingthem over the moun- tion. Whether these professions them quiet. The storm is murtendiiig to them equal rights with tains would not be gieat, And were sincere, or proceeded from murring at a distance, which I native citizens, and after a short if we should give them apart of their fears, time will determine, am fearful will, sooner or la-er probation, by naturalizing and a- our vacant lands to settle upon, After looking out for some days burst on us with all the accurmidonting them as legitimate mem- the remainder would increase in for a proper scite, the engineer has lated hon ors of savage vengeance bers of our republic At the pre- value enough and mote than e- finally fixed on the position To give you an idea of the sent time they are flocking by nough to pay for it. Besides, it where the old French fort (Le present feelings of the Indians, I thousands to our shores, & some would be a charitable, a humane Bay) formerly stood. It will be enclose a speech of Nat-aw-pin-scheme ought to he laid for giv- act, and would call down the a stockade with strong pickets, a daw-qua, or the Smoker, a Wining the tide a prompt and favor- blessings of Heaven on our re- bastion at each angle, with a nebagoe chief, delivered before able direction. public. piece of artillery on each, amply col. Boyer, the Indian agent. Those who come to America In order to give effect to the sufficient to beat off any Indian The speech shall have a place ire generally laborers, and per- scheme, let congress at their next force that can be brought against in our next. ftons from the poorest class of SO- session provide some means to it. The garrison will consist of mwamn ciety. Many of them are with- bring about this desirable object, two companies of riflemen and Washington City. Oct 22. out money, and destitute of the If they in their wisdom should two companies of infantry, all The public feeling appears to means of subsistence. Landed think it repugnant to the interests under the command of colonel have been strongly excied by the among strangers, and ignorant of of the nation, then let benevolent Chambers. Some account of late news from New-Orleans, of the country they know not where individuals form themselves int t his very delightful country may a rencountre between one of our to seek employment, where to societies and concert measuresJ prove not uninteresting. When vessels and a Spanish squadron apply for information nor in take them without delay wfflT the French first established them- and the hope has been repeatedly what part of our vast territory their families out of the cities in- selves here, they found the con- expressed that our government they can find a situation best sui- to the interior, where they will trast between it and Mackinaw would take prompt measures for ted to their circumstances. They make the wilderness blossom a very striking : for, on leaving the redress of this and prevention of stand in need of some kind hand the rose. Those individuals who latter place, vegetation was future similar indignities. The to lead them to the place where own large tracts of wild land, scarcely apparent, whereas, on ar- public may rest assured, that they can with the greatest facili- would find it their interest to set- riving at the Bay, they found the there is nothing like indifference kty, find support, and where their tie colonies of these people upon woods and fields clothed in the felt on this subject at the seat of services would be the most use- it by its increase of value. And most luxuriant verdure. At that government. All our naval force Ful to tlfcmselves and the nation, they would have the additional time the country was inhabited in that neighborhood has been di The Atlantic cities are at this satisfaction of having snatched by two tribes of Indians, the rcctcd to put to sea to protect time crowded with multitudes, many a hapless victim from pe- Winnebagoes, (called by the our tlag from insult; and, least Striving in vain to find employ- nury, vice and despair. French Puons,' or stinking) and hostilities should be seriously foment, and wandering about in al- the Manomenies (called ' Faul tended, the Congress frigate capt. most hopeless despondency, From the Enquirer, savoins' or eaters of w ild rice.) Morris, has been ordered to Some plan should be adopted to VIEWS IN THE WEST. The W innebagoes, proving most cruise in that sea. Our naval force Remedy those difficulties. We The following is an extract of troublesome, the French $c Ma- thus strengthened leaves nothing have immense tracts of wild and a letter from doctor William H. nomenies turned their arms a- to fear from continued hostility, fertile land, on which, if they had Henning, of this city, now regi- gainst them, and having killed a if it be meditated. Measures will a liule assistance, they might set- mental surgeon to the detachment number, drove them to the Win- also of course be taken to secure tie, ami instead ot being idle nut- of troops commanded by colonel nebagoe lake and the Rock river, a reparation for the injury sussanceS) might become useful and Miller, of the 3d regt, to his fa- where they have ever since resi- tained, prompt and proportionate Hrfpeetable citizens. Instead of ther, W . W. Henning, esqr. of ded. The soil on both sides of to the importance vs. aggravation thronging the streets of cities this city, which contains some in- the river is very fine and the fine of character which shall appear, which have already a superabun- teresting information relative to wheat fields and gardens give it on examination, properly to atdatice of laborers, they should be the Western interests of the U. every appearance of a rich and tach to it.