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Show REPORT OF THE COM&IISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45 the families of those who had hern hung in 3finnesota for participation in the massacre of 18F2, or of those who were imprisoned at Davenport for alleged complicity in the same outbreak. In this numher were also some sixty who had been imprisoned at the lasknamed place, and released by order of President Lincoln. These Indians had thus fa:. failed in their willing labors to rxire crops at Crow creek, and the exuenses of their care. subsistence, and clothi~~izn.c lud-ing transportation, had aninally nearly or quite exhausted the appro$iation of $100,000 made by Conness for their benefit, with no prospect of any improre-ment in the fatire. l twa s evident. from the succe&ivean~~uar lk or t s from that quarter, and particularly from the reports of the northwetern treaty com-missioners, n,ho visited the reservation, that the Indians must he removed from that dace to one where they could earn their own subsistence. ~ d mtew o hundred 1ndiks were at Davenport, beld as prisoners by the War Department, under military eoard, since the fall of 1862. A part of the original nuihers taken prisonersLby voluntary aurrenaer of themeeives in most eases -had been hung, and a part sent to Crow Creek, a3 above mentioned. Persons fully coguiza~~oft the facts io the case had all along insisted that the really guilty parties had for the most part escaped, and that many of these very pris-oners had actually exe~+edth en~selvest o save the lives of whites, and had urged their release as having been sufficiently punished for such small degree of com-plicity in the outbreak as was proved against. them, and on account of their exemplary conduct while in confinement. The military authorities had ex-pressed their illtention to release them, and measures had been taken, looking towards a formal pardon to he issued by the President in their favor, in prder that they might join their people at Crow creek when released; hut General Pope had objected earnestly against their' being sent to that place, on account of its being of too easy communication with those Sioux who were hut lately in hostility. About three hundred of these people were living upon var io~~pso rtions of their old reservation in IIinnesota, leading a precarious life. Nany of these men had acted a noble part in withstrtnding the onset of their people upon the whites, and had, at the risk of their lives, saved and rescued many captives. Congress had acknowledged their services by appropriating $7,500 to he paid to certain individuals amoug them, and hy securing to them the right of eighty acres of land for each family, including improvements, upon the old r?sewation; this privilege being val~~elestos them, since the vhite settlers would not consent to their remaining in that region permanently. Bishop Whipple, of llinnesota, and other persons, had taken a warm interest in those meritorions and unfor-tunate people, and earnestly urged the department to provide for them. I n the l~eiehborhoodo f Fort Wadsworth. Dakota Territor.v. ,. not fax from the ~ ~ o r t l ~ w r ~ t ~ r d e xuf~' rrhrri~r nolidt ~r~ srrr,~tiornr,r rl: 3ome ais ur eig111 I~ut~dred of tlwse Sioux, tiha, ljnd fled !'rum tlle i~$cliscrir!tinatver nyraocr of the wlrirea in 1862. thoueh for the most art oersistentl~u rsine their Fnnocence of any sham a 8 " <, <> i n the mas;nercs planned aud carried iuto efti cr Ly the lower Siu~rxt,1 1e.w"p eoph: helungi~~tog the upper balda. A large number of tltia L.tnd hnd brru rngaged and oaid as scour3 u1,on tlre frourier tgv rite i t r i 1 i r . m authoriries. and the ratb,nn issuid, from time to'time to them and" their familLs, with such small means as they possessed of cultivating the soil, had furnished them a meagre support. Besides these four classes, the remainder of tlre hands hitherto named, and comprising most of the really guilty parties, had fled far to the north, and wed either in or near the British possessions, defiantly determined, for the most part, not to make t e rm of oeace, hut, aceordin.e> to some accouots. eshibitinz excen-tioual canes of leadiugAmen who were willing to lny down their armj. - Tllr eantr3t at1colion of t b i ~O ~ C hL i i~h een directed to the aubj<,cr,w ith the desire of adopting jome j u ~ atn d practicable plan fbr improviltg the condition of |