the troops fron the forts in the Tndian Territory," it left them "at the mercy of the rebels." That is, we first broke the treaty; aud then their subsequent failure to observe it "placcd them at onr mercy

"It is," he says, "a well-known fact that in many instanccs self-preservation compelled them to make the best terms conld with the rebels; and that this is the case has been proved by a largc number of them joining our army as soon as a suf- ficient force had penetrated their country to make it safe for them to do so."

they The Dclawares enlisted, ia 1862, onc hundred and seventy population of only two hundred males between the ages of cighteen and forty-fivc. probably no instancc in the wholo conntry of sueh a ratio of volunteers as this. They were reported as being in the army "traetablo, sober, watehful, and obodient to the coun mands of their superiors." They officered thcir own compa nies, and the use of spirituous liquors was strictly prohibited men in the Union army, and this out of a There was among them-a fact the more remarkable, as drunkenness was one of their chief vices at home

Already, howeor, the "interests" of the white settlers in Kansas were beginning to be clearly in opposition to the in they are, and closcly nothing in the future terests of the Indians. Circumseribed as surronnded by white settlements, I can see for them but destruction," says the commissiouer. "I think it is for the interest of the Indians that they be removed to some other locality as soon as possible."

"Several of them have from fifty to onc hundred acres of land in eultivation, with comfortable dwcllings, barns, and out houses. All the families are domiciled in houscs. Their crops of corn wil yield largely. Nearly every family will have a sufficiency for their own consumption, and many of the larger farmcrs a surplus. There are but few Delaware children of the age of twelve or fourteen that eannot read."