Note 902 — Chapter XV · THE VANISHING OF THE RED MAN
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Ibid., II, 215. An editorial in the first number of the first newspaper published in Chicago, commenting on the difficulties encountered by the commissioners in the early stages of the negotiations, says: "The various and clashing interests of the Traders were powerfully operating, and altogether seemed, for some days, to render doubtful the accomplishment of this great and vastly important object" (Chicago Weekly Democrat, November 26, 1833).