Ancient and modern Michilimackinac, including an account of the controversy between Mackinac and the Mormons.

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and the fisherrnen who intermarried with them,
and their bravery and cruelty in war.
In conclusion, Peaine, in behalf of the Ottowas and Ojibwas, denounced war and annihilation against the Mormons, in case any of
them sued a Gentile at law, warned him out to
work a highway tax, attempted to arrest him, or
cut any steamboat wood, except what was purchased by MfcKinley. It was evident that the
Indians fully believing that the Gentiles only
were citizens, and that the Mormons were
merely intruders; thought they Were acting in
fulfillment of treaties, and in support of the authority of the United States.
Mr. Strang replied at length to their speeches. When he caine to the denunciation of
war, he turned to the white men, first took
down their names, and from the Revised
Statutes, read to them the law concerning
inciting Indians to commit crimes. Then
turning to Peaine, he said, "I am no child,
and cannot understand you. Your voice is
like a scolding woman. I will not hear you.
March on." The white men were already in
motion, and Peaine and his fellow Chiefs and
braves sullenly followed.
Not far from this time an attempt was made
by Constable Fields, of Beaver, to arrest Eri
J. Moore, who was on Garden Island selling
whiskey to the Indians. Ile brought his supplies from Mackinac on the ice, by the single
barrel, and sold nothing else. Knowing that
the Indians would secrete and possibly defend
him, Fields took a posse of thirteen men.It so happened that Moore had started for
Mackinac before the posse reached the Indian
village. After searching till they were satisfied that he was not there, they started across
the ice on their way home, when coming round
a point of the Island they met Moore returning,
having found the ice broken, and been unable
to proceed. Chase was made, and he ran into the woods, and being assisted by the Indians and several white men, he escaped. The
white men got behind the bushes and shot at
the posse, evidently not intending to hit them,
but to shoot as close as they could and miss.

WAR O1 THE MOR0MONS.
As soon as navigation opened Moore obtained warrants before Justice O'Malley, of
Mackinac, against thirty-nine men, charging
them with being concerned in this transactioi,
and " putting him in fear of danger." Sheriff
Granger came to execute the warrants. Mr.
Strang had gone to Hog Island-with a company of workmen, trying to save a yawl boat,
which had been lost from the wreck of the
steamer Patchin, and frozen in the ice on Hog
Island shoals. Another company were there
getting out timber for oars; in all eleven men.
Granger raised a party of thirteen whites
and thirty-two Indians, well armed; went to
Hog Island, stole the boat the Mormons had
gone in; chopped in pieces the Patchin's
yawl, and believing it impossible for any to
get off from the Island, a little past midnight
fell upon the camp of the sleeping Mormons
with the Irish hurrah and the terrible? Indian
war whoop.
The hurrah was a moment too soon. The
Mormons sprang to their feet, and boldly rushed through the troop to secure their boat.Finding it gone, they again broke their lines
and took to the woods. Feeling their way
in the darkness through a deep swamp, many
of them without their boots, they met on the
opposite shore, where an old leaky fish boat
lay filled with ice and snow.
When they had this ready to lanch, but one
of their company was lacking. This was the
11th April; a cold freezing morning, the Lake
spotted with vast fields of drift ice. With a
boat preserved from sinking only by the ice
frozen in it, without sails or oar locks, and
with three unsuitable oars, not half clothed,
no provisions, without a line to tie their boat,
nor an ax to repair any accident, they set out
on thee broad blue waters, for a place of safety.
Having made the circuit of the Islands at
such distance as to avoid being seen-after
buffeting the waves for twenty-four hours, they
landed at Gull Island, then uninhabited, having suffered so much with the cold, that when