Cherokee Phoenix

Hawk and Lion--The exhibition in the eastern cites, of Black Hawk and General Jackson at the same ti

Published August, 17, 1833

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Hawk and Lion--The exhibition in the eastern cites, of Black Hawk and General Jackson at the same time produced some consequences that were not expected by the managers. The mobs ran after Gen. Jackson, but they ran after Black Hawk also; and one was shown to be about as popular as the other-judging by the curiosity which was excited to get a sight of both. It was rather mortifying to the court editors, after their grandiloquent flourishes about the same 'enthusiasm of the people' in their reception of the President, to see the enthusiasm manifested towards a wild Indian from the woods. It was therefore determined that the Black Hawk caravan should be ordered upon a different route, so as not to interfere with the success of the menagerie of Kendall and Co., in their route through New England; and so Mister Hawk was sent home from New York by the Canal and Lakes, while the Roaring Lion and Reynold the Fox kept on 'down East.--Dayton Journal.