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Show 32 EEP~RT OF TEE de6ant atAtude, will inevitably overtake them, and the remainder, composed mainly of wonten, children, and old men, are remwed far from the pleasant homes they then oeeupied, and from the civilization by which they were sun munded. The rights secured to them by their treaties are forfeited, and instead of the strongeatguarantees agaimt future want, and the most ample and gene-rous provision for their welfare, they now have nothing to hope except from the forbearance and generosity of a race upon which they have perpetrated out-rages of the most barbarous and wanton description. Of the eighteen hundred who surrendered themselves to the military authoritiea during the autumn of last yea, it will be recolleated that some three hundred were tried and sentenced to death by court-martial. Upon a review of the finding of the court, their sentence was suspended by the President as to all hut thirty-nine, upon whom it has been carried'into effect. The remainder of the condemned are still in the custody of the military authorities, and are underatood to be confined at Rock island, on the Mississippi. The people of Minnesota were so much and so justly exasperated by the wanton crimes of the Sioux that it hecame necessary to remove not only the remainder of those who surrendered, as above stated, to some point outside the limitsd the State, but the Winnebago Indians also; and asit was exceedingly desirable that this shanld be done in time to enable them to make a crop dur,hg the season just passed, but little time wxsgiven for making the neceseary pre-p& ions for their removal, and the selection of a suitable site for their fotom homes. The execntion of this &ult and importaet duty- was confided to Superintendent Thompson, and it gives me pleasure to bear witness to the zeal, fidelity, and fiithfulnepa with whioh he dkcharged. the onerous and ditXcu1t task imposed upon him. The dii3ied.k and dmgers met and. overcoma in the performance of his duties will fully appear in his varioue.. nports to be fonnd among the accompanying papers. Sufficeitto my, anew 1oo;ttion was seletted about eighty miles above Fort Rsedall, on. the Missouri, and the Indians re-moved thereto in time, it is believed, to have en&led them to raise a crqp, and provide to some considerable extent for their wants duringthe coming winter, hut for the great drought which, as elsewhere stated, has prevailed in that cbuut,ry, and has been so severe that nothing whatever has been realized from the cultivation of the soil. This source of supplies being cut ofF, the Indians deprived of their arms and surrounded by their hostile brethren so that they could not go upon the hunt, they are left entirely destitute, anditis to he feared that our utmost endeavors will be insufficient to prevent great suffering and distress among them for want of the ordinary necessaries of life. The case of the.Winnebagoes is one of peculiar hardship. I am still of the I opinion formerly expressed, that this tribe, as such, was in no manner impli-eated in or responsible for the cruel and wanton outbreak on the part of the Sioux, but its consequences to the tribe have been as disastrous as they were unmerited. As you are aware, an act of Congress was passed at the last session providing for their removal .and the sale of their reservation; in obedience t* which, and the populademand of'the people of Miiesota, they, as already Wed, have been removed to a new loeation upon the Missouri river adjoining |