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DELAWARE. 



DEMBINSKI, HENEYZ. 



erate commissioner to Paris, the man whom 

 Mr. Dayton had constantly and powerfully op- 

 posed for more than three years. His death 

 occurred at the Hotel de Louvre, from apo- 

 plexy. 



DELAWARE. The vote of the State at the 

 Presidential election in November was, Lincoln 

 8,155 ; McOlellan 8,767. Majority for the Mc- 

 Olellan electors, 612. The vote for member of 

 Congress was Smithers, Republican, 8,253 ; 

 Nicholson, Democrat, 8,762; majority for 

 Nicholson, 509. The Legislature of the State 

 was divided as follows : 



Senate. House. 



Republican 8 



Democrats 6 



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There were two sessions of the Legislature 

 during 1864. One in January and a special 

 one in August. The seat of Mr. Bayard as a 

 Senator in Congress which was vacant by his 

 resignation, see CONGRESS, UNITED STATES, was 

 filled by the election of Geo. R. Riddle. The 

 Legislature adopted a resolution complimen- 

 tary to Mr. Bayard for the course he had 

 pursued during his Senatorial career, and 

 especially for his speech in the Senate, setting 

 forth the reasons which induced him to resign 

 his seat. 



The Governor urged the Legislature, in his 

 message, to adopt measures for the emancipa- 

 tion of slaves held in the State. As arguments 

 he stated, that Delaware is connected with the 

 free States by geographical position and com- 

 mercial necessity ; that her products find their 

 markets in the North, and that from thence 

 come the immigrants who give increased value 

 to real estate ; that the result of constant in- 

 tercourse with the North is gradually to assimi- 

 late the institutions of the State to those of the 

 free States as it had already identified their in- 

 terests ; that slavery in Delaware, being merely 

 nominal, was worthless as an element of labor; 

 that emancipation in Maryland had surrounded 

 Delaware with free soil, inviting the escape of 

 slaves on all sides, as there was now no law 

 requiring their rendition. 



Some efforts were made to enlist negroes in 

 the State under orders of the President of the 

 United States and the Governor, but the Legis- 

 lature having refused to pay such recruits a 

 bounty, the number of them was quite small. 

 A commission was also appointed to estimate 

 the value of such as were slaves. Upon a 

 claim being made and title proved, those who 

 were considered or known to be loyal, received 

 full compensation. 



An association which had been formed in the 

 previous year to promote immigration in the 

 State met with considerable success. Several 

 thrifty colonies were formed, and the number 

 of settlers from the North increased. The 

 cheapness of the lands and the profits from its 

 cultivation were regarded as inducements. 

 Cultivated lands were sold from fifteen to 

 thirty dollars per acre within one to three 



miles of a railroad depot. The most profitable 

 crop is the peach, yielding annually a hundred 

 dollars per acre for many years. For the in- 

 stitutions of the State see previous volumes of 

 this work. 



DEMBINSKI, HENKYK, a Polish General, 

 born in the palatinate of Cracow, Jan. 16, 

 1791, died in Paris, June 13, 1864. Imbued 

 by his parents with strong antipathies for 

 Russia, he left the Vienna academy of engi- 

 neers in 1809 to enrol himself as a private 

 soldier in the national army of the newly- 

 created Duchy of Warsaw. Entering the 

 French service in 1812, as a lieutenant, he was 

 made a captain by Napoleon on the battle 

 field of Smolensk, distinguished himself at the 

 battle of Leipsic, and after the overthrow of 

 the French Empire returned to his native 

 country and engaged in agricultural pursuits. 

 He was one of the first to take up arms in the 

 Polish revolution of 1830, and in the spring of 

 1831, as commander of a cavalry brigade, 

 fought with distinguished bravery at Dembe 

 and Liw, at the obstinately contested battle of 

 Kuflew, and at the passage of the river Narew. 

 He subsequently took part in the ill-fated ex- 

 pedition under Gielgud and Chlapowski to 

 Lithuania, and, by a series of skilful ma- 

 noeuvres, succeeded in bringing his command 

 in safety to Warsaw, where, for a short time, 

 he held the position of Governor of the city 

 and general-in-chief of the Polish forces. The 

 revolution was by this time, however, too far 

 quelled to enable him to oppose effectual re- 

 sistance to the Russians, and in September ho 

 escaped, with other leaders, into Prussia, 

 whence he went to Paris. In 1832 appeared 

 his Memoires sur la Campagne de Lithuanie, 

 and in the succeeding year he accepted an 

 offer to assist in organizing the Egyptian army, 

 which Mehemet Ali was preparing to send 

 against the Porte. Hatred to Russia, which 

 upheld the Porte, mainly impelled him to this 

 step. When all hope of bearing arms against 

 his hereditary enemies had been dispelled he 

 returned in 1835 to France, where he lived in 

 retirement until the stirring events of 1848 

 called forth the latent revolutionary spirit of 

 Europe. After participating in the so-called 

 Slavic Congress of Prague, he accepted a com- 

 mand in the Hungarian national army. On 

 February 5th, 1849, he was appointed by Kos- 

 suth Commander-in-Chief of the revolutionary 

 forces, but having lost the great battle of 

 Kapolna (Feb. 26, 27) and been forced to 

 retreat across the Theiss to Fiired, in conse- 

 quence of the stubborn disobedience and 

 intrigues of Gorgey, who was jealous of serv- 

 ing under a foreigner, he was compelled, early 

 in March, to resign. A few weeks later he 

 received command of a corps in the north of 

 Hungary, but being unable to agree with the 

 ministry regarding the plans for the campaign, 

 he was superseded by Wysocki. In July, how- 

 ever, Kossuth, alarmed by the continued dis- 

 obedience of Gorgey, was induced to restore 



