After this we find in the Official Reports no distinetive men- tion of the Delawarcs by name, except of a few who had been for some time living in the Indian Territory, and were not in- cluded in the trcaty provisions at the time of the removal from Kansas. This little handful-cighty-one in number-is all that now remain to bear the name of that strong and friendly peo- ple to whon, a little more than one hundred years ago, we promised that they should bc our brothors forever, and be en titled to a representation in our Congress.

This band of Delawares is associated with six other dwin dled remnants of tribes-the Caddoes, lonies, Wichitas, To- waconics, Wacoes, Kecehies, and Comaneheson the Wiehita Ageney, in Indian Territory

They are all reported as being "peaceable, well disposcd," and "actively engaged in agricultural pursuits."

Of the Delawares it is said, in 1878, that they werc not able they had intended to during that to cultivate so much land as year, on account of loss of stoek by horse-thieves."

Even here, it scems, in that "Indian country south of Kansas, where" (as they with them," enemies lie in wait for them, as of old, to rob and destroy; even here the Government is, as before, unable to protect them; and in all probability, the tragedies of 1800 and 1867 will before long be re-enacted with still sadder results.

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