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REPORT ON THE PICTURE GALLERY. 103
to the history of the two former we can add nothing. OSHKOSH
has led a very intemperate life, which terminated after a seven
days illness, Aug. 39th, 1858, at Keshena, Shawanaw county,
the result of a drunken brawl. Bad as his habits were, his
people greatly regretted his loss. The artist, BROOKES, reached
Keshena just in the nick of time, a day or two before his death,
to catch and preserve the features of the dying chief.
The following speeches of OSIIKOSII and SOULIGNY, which
appeared originally in the Milwaukee Sentinel of March 8th,
1855, are deemed worthy of preservation in this connection:
"Yesterday afternoon we received a visit in our sanctum from
a deputation of the Menomonee Indians, who have been in our
city some days past. They were accompanied by Messrs.
CHARLES and ROBERT GRIGNON, of Green Bay, Mr. WM. W.
JOIINSON and Capt. WM. POWELL, who acted as interprcters
between our Indian visitors and ourselves. After being shown
through the Sentinel office, and looking with considerable inter-
est, at the different portraits and pictures which adorn the walls
of the Editors' room-a fine likeness. of Gen. SCOTT especially
arrested their attention, as the portrait of one they remembered
having seen in the Black Hawk War-the chiefs intimated that
they desired to tell the editor the story of their wrongs, and
through him, the public. Accordingly, a select and attentive
audience, made up principally of the men and boys about the
#entinel office, with two or three friends who chanced to drop
in, listened to the following talk from OSI~KOSH, Head chief of
the Menomonees, done into English by Mr. ROBERT GRIGNON
and Mr. JOBNSON:
"We have called upon you and shaken hands with you, with a
good heart. We have come to ask your aid. We want you to
publish what we say, You see that I am growing gray. I am
an old man.. I have seen many years.
"1 was quite a young man when the Americans came to my
place at Green Bay. In was in 1816. They shook hands with
us and told us they had come to live among US, and make US