[517] Edwards Papers, 57; Wisconsin Historical Collections, XI, 320.
[518] Kirkland, Chicago Massacre, 187; Edwards, Life of Ninian Edwards, 286-87.
[519] Edwards, Life of Ninian Edwards, 39.
[520] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, I, 805.
[521] For further examples see ibid., 797-811.
[522] Edwards Papers; Edwards, Life of Ninian Edwards, passim.
[523] Michigan Pioneer Collections, Vol. XV, passim; Black Hawk, Life, 30-35.
[524] Black Hawk, Life, 34 ff.; Michigan Pioneer Collections, XV, 196-98; Edwards, Life of Ninian Edwards, 57.
CHAPTER IX
THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
The indecisive outcome of the battle of Tippecanoe seemed to necessitate the continuation of the war which Harrison's campaign had precipitated. But Tecumseh's plans were not yet matured, and his British advisers steadily warned him against the mistake of making a premature beginning of the struggle with the Americans, which would permit them to crush the Indians before the British should be ready to come to their assistance. He chose, therefore, to make light of the affair at Tippecanoe, and continued to protest that there would be no war with the Americans unless they themselves forced it.[525] One thing had, however, been rendered certain by the Tippecanoe campaign: sooner or later the Americans must renew the attack upon the Indians; and a war with the British would bring an Indian war also upon the Northwest.