irue that a few of the Winnebagoes ities of the Sioux, the tribe, as such, is no more justly responsi- were engaged in the atroc- ble for their acts than our Government would be for a pirate to have been born on our territory. Notwith. who happened standing this, the exasperation of the people of Minnesota appcars to be ncarly as great toward the Winnebagoes ward the Sionx. They demand that the Winnebagocs as the Sioux slhall be removed from the limits of the State as to- as well The Winnebagoes are unwilling people crvation without risk of bcing shot; and as to movc. Yet the Minnesota are so excited that not a Winnebago can leave his res they have never received their promised implements of agriculture, and the gume on their reservation is exhausted, and their arms have been taken from them, they are starving."

Their agent writes: "These Indians have been remaining here in a continnous state of suspense, waiting for the Govern ment to cause the stipulations of the treaty of 1859 to be car ried into operation: such has been their condition for three years and a alf, and they do not understaud why it is so.* The fact that a very few of tho Winncbagocs were present and witnesscd, if they did not take part in, the massacre at the Lower Sioux Agency, has causod the Winnebagoes themsclves The hostile feel to be nniversally saspected of disloyalty. ings of the white pcople are so intense, that I am neecssitated to use exira efforts to keep the Tndians upon their own lands, I have been notified by the whites that the Indians will be massacred if they go out of their own conntry; and it is but a few days since an Indian was killed while crossing the Missis sippi River, for no other reason than that he was an Indian, and such is the state of public opinion that the murderer goes unpunished."

As to the loyalty of the tribe, the agent says: "There is no tribe of Indians more so." There is "no doubt of their loyalty as a tribe. * *In consequence of a threat made by the