[406] Taliaferro writes: "It was some length of time before he could
induce the Indians to respect the Sabbath-day--all days being alike to
them. It so happened that hundreds of important peace conventions were
made and confirmed by the hostile tribes on the Lord's day. But time and
patience brought them to reason, and for many years they respected the
white man's great 'medicine day.' The sign given for the day of rest was
the agency flag floating from the flagstaff, at the agency council
house."--_Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 236.
[407] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. 45, p. 429, December, 1849.
[408] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 326, 327;
_Taliaferro's Diary_, August 14, 1833.
[409] Street to Taliaferro, August 12, 1829.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol.
II, No. 108.
[410] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 119-121.
[411] Taliaferro to Eaton.--_Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 151.
[412] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 18, May 1, June 8, 1831.
[413] _Taliaferro's Diary_, August 14, 1833.
[414] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 18, 1831.
[415] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. iv.
[416] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 255.
[417] _Senate Documents_, 3rd Session, 25th Congress, Vol. I, Document
No. 1, p. 523.
[418] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 12-30.
This volume, written by the son of Samuel Pond, tells of the work of his
father and uncle.
[419] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 30.
Among the _Kemper Papers_ (Vol. XX, No. 34) the writer found the
following permit to enter the Indian country:
"The Right Reverend, Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, having signified to this Department, his desire to
visit and remain sometime in the Indian country, and requested the
permission required by law to enable him to do so, such permission is
hereby granted; and he is commended to the friendly attention of civil
and military officers and agents, and of citizens, and if at any time it
shall be necessary to their protection.
Given under my hand and
the Seal of the War Department
this 1st day of October 1838.
S. Cooper.
Acting Secretary of War."
[420] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 31, 32;
_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 324, 325.
[421] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 7, 1834.
[422] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 38-42.
[423] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 47.
[424] Featherstonhaugh's _A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, Vol. II,
p. 11.
[425] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 43.
[426] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 127-146.
[427] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 127,
133.
[428] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt.
II, Document No. 5, pp. 1054, 1055.
[429] Riggs's _Mary and I, Forty Years with the Sioux_, pp. 41, 42.
[430] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 49-59.
[431] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I,
Document No. 4, p. 315.
[432] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol II, Pt.
III, p. 439.
[433] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 343.
[434] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 63, 64.
[435] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. 41, p. 281, August, 1845; Vol. 32, pp.
188, 189, May, 1836.
[436] _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. IV, p. 61, February, 1839; Tanner's
_History of the Diocese of Minnesota_, p. 24; _Post Returns_, April,
1839, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.
[437] Gear to Kemper, Nov. 29, 1841.--_Kemper Letters_, Vol. 25, No.
103. See also _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. 5, p. 68, March, 1840.
[438] _Acta et Dicta_, Vol. I, No. 1, July, 1907, pp. 14-21; _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 222-230.