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DELANCEY, WILLIAM H. 



and disregard the wishes of those who elected 

 him. When his State stood ready to plunge 

 into secession, he resisted that purpose with 

 his utmost zeal and ability. Eepresenting a 

 slave State and a border State, he was, never- 

 theless, conspicuous in Congress for his un- 

 compromising radicalism, his early advocacy 

 of emancipation, of arming the negroes, &c. 

 His great speech at Chicago last summer was 

 for negro suffrage. His Southern birth and edu- 

 cation, his political hopes, which were always 

 high, and his professional interests, to which he 

 was much attached, weighed as nothing against 

 his faith in the principles of the Declaration, of 

 ''humanity, of freedom, and of equal rights." 

 In 1863 Mr. Davis was elected to the thirty- 

 eighth Congress, in which he served with dis- 

 tinguished ability as Chairman of the Committee 

 on Foreign Affairs. In 1852 he published a 

 book entitled the War of Ormuzd andAhriman 

 in the Nineteenth Century. His death was 

 caused by typhoid pneumonia, brought on by 

 taking a cold bath while under the influence of 

 a heavy cold. 



DELANCEY, Right Rev. WILLIAM HEATH- 

 COTE, D. D., D. C. L., Bishop of the diocese of 

 Western New York, of the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church, born in Westchester County, N. Y., 

 October 8, 1797, died at his residence in Geneva, 

 N. Y., April 5, 1865. He was educated at 

 Yale College, New Haven, where he graduated 

 in 1817. 



Having studied theology under Bishop Ho- 

 bart, he was admitted in 1822 to the order of 

 priests, and soon became an assistant minister 

 in the associated parishes of Christ Church, St. 

 Peter's, and St. James's in Philadelphia. From 

 1823 to 1830 he was annually chosen Secre- 

 tary of the Diocesan Convention, and from 

 1823 to 1829 was also Secretary of the House 

 of Bishops. In 1828 he became Provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. After remaining 

 in that office for five years, he became again 

 an assistant minister of St. Peter's church, and 

 on the death of Bishop White, the rector of 

 that parish. 



In 1838 he was chosen bishop of the newly 

 constituted diocese of Western New York. His 

 consecration to the Episcopal office took place 

 May 9, 1839. He then removed to Geneva, 

 the seat of the Diocesan College, where he after- 

 wards resided. In his new position he soon 

 proved himself one of the most energetic and 

 efficient prelates of his Church. The visitation 

 of his large diocese required a journey of more 

 than four thousand miles, and during the earlier 

 years of his administration had to be made al- 

 most entirely by the old-fashioned stage coaches, 

 or often by a private conveyance over rough 

 roads and through a thinly settled country; 

 still he was enabled to make this journey an- 

 nually until the introduction of railways in that 

 section of the country relieved him of much of 

 the fatigue incident to his visitation. Through 

 his endeavors all the Church institutions 

 throughout his district were placed upon a firm 



DELAWARE. 



basis, and ample endowments for them and for 

 the episcopate were secured. 



Bishop Delancey was one of the leaders of the 

 High Church party in this country, and threw 

 his whole influence in its favor. His Church 

 sympathies, however, were broad and generous. 

 Of late years he has been prominent from his 

 efforts to bring about intercommunion with the 

 Greek Church. He twice visited England, first 

 in 1852, as one of the delegates chosen to repre- 

 sent the American Episcopal Church at the 

 third jubilee of the Society for the Propagation 

 of the Gospel. His fellow delegates were the 

 Bishop of Michigan and the late Bishop Wain- 

 wright, of New York, and all three received 

 the honorary degree of D. C. L. from the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford. Bishop Delancey's second 

 visit to England was made in 1858. His death 

 was partially the result of paralysis. 



DELAWARE. Area, 2,120 square miles; 

 population in 1860, 112,216. Until the com- 

 mencement of the recent war a State debt 

 was unknown in Delaware. The resources of 

 the State had been amply sufficient to meet 

 the ordinary expenses, and the policy to guard 

 against indebtedness had become settled. Upon 

 the issue of the orders of the Federal Govern- 

 ment to draft the citizens into the military ser- 

 vice, the Legislature determined to extend the 

 credit of the State to aid them in relieving 

 themselves from the operation of the draft by 

 obtaining substitutes. For this purpose the 

 State Treasurer was authorized to prepare and 

 issue bonds to the amount of $1,000,000. 

 This amount was increased during 1865 by 

 the addition of $110,000, making the total 

 $1,110,000. A loan of bonds to the amount 

 of $170,000 was made to the Delaware Rail- 

 road Company by the State in 1855. As 

 a security for this loan the State holds a 

 mortgage of the railroad guaranteed by the 

 Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail- 

 road Company a part of the 1m e from Phila- 

 delphia to Baltimore and Washington and 

 also a sinking fund by the operation of 

 which the entire loan will be paid before the 

 maturity of the bonds. The payment of the 

 principal and interest of the general bonded 

 debt was provided for by the appropriation of 

 certain sums from time to time paid to the 

 Treasurer for the use of the State. The amount 

 thus paid by a tax on the Philadelphia, Wil- 

 mington, and Baltimore Railroad during the 

 eleven months ending October 31, 1865, was 

 $94,782, to which adding the taxes from other 

 sources, and the aggregate was $95,208. This 

 sum, if the tax justly due upon carriers by 

 steam had been paid by all, and the tax upon 

 the railroad had yielded in the same proportion 

 for November, would have been increased to 

 upwards of $160,000 for the year ending De- 

 cember 1, 1865 a sum sufficient to pay the 

 annual interest on all the bonds and leave forty 

 thousand dollars to be applied to the principal. 



The annual current expenditures have hither- 

 to been met by the income from the invest- 



