Here is a community of a thousand people, larger than many of the farming villages in New England, for instance, " the average of personal property amounting to ono thousand dollars" all lving n their own houses, cultivating from fifty to oDe hundred acres of land, nearly all the children in sehools, and yet it is for their "interest to be moved " The last sentence of the following paragraph tells the story:

When peace is restored to our country, a removal of all the Indians in Kansas will certainly be advantageous to them as well as to the State."

In 1863 their agent writes: "Since the qucstion of the re moval of the Jndians from ansas has been agitated, improve ments have been muc retarded among the Delawares and other Indians in Kansas.

I think they with the Government, *having in vicw scttlenent in the Southern country of those who eleet to emigrate, compensa- tion for the homes they relinquish, and a permission to remain in their prosent homes for all who are opposed to leaving are sufficiently prepared to make new treaties Kansas."

At this time, "one-half the adult population are in the vol- unteer scrvicc of the United States. They make the best of soldiers, and are higlly valued by their oflicers. No State in the Union has furnished so many men for our armies, from the same ratio of population, 'The tribe has 3900 acres of land under cultivatiou, in corn, as has the JDelaware tribe, * * wheat, oats, and potatoes." (And yet one-half the adult men are away

In this year the Delawares, beiug " sufficiently propared" to make new treaties looking the white settlers in Kansas, petitioned the United States Government to permit them to take eight hnndred dollars of their to their removal out of the way of annuity funds to pay the expense of sending a delegation of their chiefs to the Rocky Mountains, to soc if they could find