Jane Grey Swisshelm was another of those women who had an incredible life and who no one ever hears about
Jane Grey Swisshelm was another of those women who had an incredible life and who no one ever hears about. In 1858, Jane moved to St. Cloud Minnesota, where she established a newspaper called the “St. Cloud Visitor.” In 1860, her paper was sacked and burned by a pro-Slavery Mob, for her support of the Dred Scott decision and the emancipation of the Slaves who were annually brought to Minnesota by Southern tourists summering in Minnesota. She moved across the river to St. Paul, where she set up another newspaper. In 1862 occurred the Great Dakota (Sioux) Uprising, where almost 1000 Minnesotans were killed by the Dakota Indians, upset because their promised supplies had not been delivered by the government. Once suppressed, the local military condemned 330 Indians to be hung, for depredations. President Lincoln commuted all but 33 of these, and the Minnesota Legislature voted to send Jane to Washington to argue against the commutation; though Jane was ardently anti-Slavery and arden...