they made claim to lands which they had The first to welcome but without success. previously ceded, Hudson's wandering bark, they are now the last representatives revolution,

of the tribes which once held dominion on Sewanhackie.

Domestic clans or families of Minsls and Mahlcans lingered

We

wish thus to excite litigation. con sider the state legislature the proper pur chaser,

and

prolongation'of the existence of a wasted, Upon this parting occasion, I feel it to be an incumbent

yet grateful people.

throw ourselves upon its magnanimity, trusting

benevolence and

that feelirtgs of justice and liberality will

duty to bear the feeble tribute of my praise to the high-toned justice which,

induce you to give us what you deem a compensation."

in this instance, and, so far as I am ac quainted, in all former times, has actuated

The whole subject was

referred to a

committee, before whom Hon. Samuel L. Southard voluntarily and ably advocated the claim of the Delawares ; and at the conclusion of his speech remarked "That it was a proud fact in the history of New Jersey, that every foot of her soil had been obtained from the Indians by fair and voluntary purchase and trans :

no other state in the union, not even the land which bears the

fer,

a fact that

name of Penn, can boast of."

The com

mittee reported in favor of an appropria tion of $2,000, which the legislature at

once confirmed.

This was the crowning

act of a series in which justice and kind