Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XI (1888)

              358 wisconsin historical collections vol xi i have very minutely enquired into all the causes con nected with the late disturbances with the winnebago in dians.1 hastily i will sketch them to you that you may compare them with your accounts and judge between them i place great reliance upon my information as it comes from different sources and fits nicely together should you have any varient opinions you would highly gratify me by com municating them i took occasion in my communication to give that weight that is evidently due to the prompt meas ures you took in relation to the militia the winnebagoes and the whites all admit that they apprehended more from the militia ordered to be drafted than all the regulars they had set down the draft of i of the militia of illinois as an immense number of mounted riflemen they remembered the bangers of governor edwards and that was the force they most dreaded \ the indians had been soured by the conduct of the vast number of adventurers flocking to and working the lead mines of fever river those who went by land by far the greater part passed through the winnebago country many of them had great contempt for naked indians and be haved low gross and like blackguards amongst them the agent at the mines2 granted permits on the winnebago lands and numerous diggins were industriously pushed far east of the line between the ottawas chippewasand potta watomies of the illinois and the winnebagoes and great quantities of mineral procured and taken away to the smelters i should first have called your attention to your treaty of the 24 aug 1816 and th treaty of 19 aug 1825,8 which together establish the line between the ottawas c and the winnebagoes take the treaty of 24 aug 1816 and lay a map of the country before you and delineate the 1 the winnebago war or " red bird disturbance described at length in preceding volumes of wis hist colls ed 2 the superintendent of the united states lead mines was lieut martin thomas who liv^d at st louis his resident sub-agent at this time was thomas mcknight who lived at galena — ed 8 the treaty of 1816 was held at st louis that of 1825 at prairie du chien ed