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commander, notified the Indians of the intended surprise, and they escaped. In his report to Secretary of War Arthur St. Clair, Wayne writes: "But for the defection of this villain, I would have dealt them a telling blow. The village for five miles above and below here (Miamis of the North and Au Glaize), shows the work of many hands; nor have I seen such immense fields of corn from Georgia to Canada."
Wayne destroyed this corn; the Indians came in his absence and replanted it; he destroyed it a second time; again it was replanted, and a third time was it trampled to earth.
The Indians were forced back by this "general who never sleeps" as the Indians styled Wayne; a new treaty was made with them; again were they assured of a fixity of tenure on the land which their "Great Father" was pleased to allot to them; but now they are circumscribed in a small area in the Indian Territory; but notwithstanding all the barbarous treatment they have received at the hands of our government, during the civil war, while Massachusetts sent one defender of the Union out of sixteen of a population (the largest ratio of any state), the Delawares sent the one-half of their fighting men with their own officers - 62 in all; and when they returned to their homes an order was issued to disarm them - to deprive them of arms to protect them from the raids of horse thieves who were systematically stealing their horses. This order, however, was not carried into effect.
The treatment of the Delaware and Shawnese Indians by our government is a fair sample of its dealings with all Indians. Even now Blackfeet Indians are starving near the mountains of Montana because our government has not kept faith with them.-See Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson's, "A Century of Dishonor," and Seth Humphrey's "Uncle Sam, Trustee; or, The Indian Dispossessed."
Father Gallitzin Builds His Second Church - Becomes the Patron of Higher Education.
In 1817, the first log church which was built by Father Gallitzin in 1799 and enlarged to double its size in 1808, having become too small for the ever-increasing congregation, a frame building, forty by eighty feet in dimensions, was built. It was used until 1854 when it was replaced by a brick church, and having fallen to decay, it was torn down by Father Ferdinand Kittell in 1891.
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