DELAFIELD, HENRY. 



DELAWARE. 



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lege of Physicians and Surgeons, but his in- 

 creasing private practice compelled him in the 

 same year to resign his professorship and his 

 position at the hospital. In 1842 he became 

 one of the chief founders and the first presi- 

 dent of the Society for the Relief of the Widows 

 and Orphans of Medical Men. In 1858 he was 

 elected President of the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, a position he held at the time 

 of his death. By virtue of this office he be- 

 came a member of the Board of Governors of 

 the Roosevelt Hospital. " As president of Jhe 

 board and chairman of the Building Commit- 

 tee of this hospital, he took a leading part in 

 the details of the edifice and the organization 

 of the institution. 



DELAFIELD, HENRY, merchant of New 

 York City, was born at Ravenswood, L. I., 

 July 19, 1792, and died in New York City, 

 February 14, 1875, aged eighty-two. He was 

 the last surviving son of John Delafield, who 

 came to New York from England in 1773, and 

 established himself there as a merchant and 

 underwriter. Early in life Henry Delafield 

 commenced business with his brother William, 

 trading with England, but soon added a com- 

 merce with the West India islands, China, In- 

 dia, and South America. At length they con- 

 fined their commercial relations to the West 

 Indies, and finally to Hayti. His brother Wil- 

 liam dying in 1853, he retired from the busi- 

 ness in favor of two of his nephews. He held 

 many positions of trust, and was for a long 

 time consul for Hayti under the Emperor Sou- 

 louque. He was the twin-brother of William, 

 whom he closely resembled in features and voice. 

 The three brothers Joseph, Edward, and Henry, 

 all died of diseases of the lungs, the last two 

 of pneumonia, on three successive days, Fe- 

 bruary 12th, 13th, and 14th ; at very advanced 

 ages Joseph eighty -five, Edward eighty, Hen- 

 ry eighty-two ; and the funerals were solemn- 

 ized on the same day, February 16th, and in 

 the same places, in Trinity Church and at the 

 family-vault in Greenwood. Of the two other 

 brothers, Rufus R. died two years before, 

 aged seventy-two ; and Major- General Richard 

 died about a year previous. The united ages 

 of the five brothers, whose portraits had been 

 photographed together, make an aggregate of 

 more than four hundred years. 



LJELAFIELD, Major JOSEPH, a retired offi- 

 cer of the U. S. Army, was born in New York 

 City, where he died, February 12, 1875, at the 

 age of eighty -five, the oldest of five brothers. 

 He served in the War of 1812 as captain in 

 Hawkins's Regular New York Volunteers. He 

 remained with the regiment until it was dis- 

 banded, when he was made major of the Forty- 

 sixth U. S. Infantry. At the close of hostilities 

 he was sent to Europe, to authenticate certain 

 claims against the British Government grow- 

 ing out of the war just ended, the commission 

 having been appointed in pursuance of the 

 Treaty of Ghent. Upon his return he received 

 the thanks of the Government for his services. 



Major Delafield was at one time President of 

 the Lyceum of Natural History. 



DELAWARE. The Delaware Legislature 

 began its session on the 7th of January, 1875. 

 On the 15th the vote for Governor was can- 

 vassed in joint convention, and it was found 

 that 12,488 votes had been cast for John P. 

 Cochran, the Democratic candidate, and 11,259 

 for Dr. Isaac Jessup, showing a majority of 

 1,229 for Cochran, who was declared elected. 

 He was inaugurated on the 20th, and delivered 

 an address to the Legislature. On the 27th, 

 Thos. F. Bayard was declared in joint conven- 

 tion to have been elected to the United States 

 Senate, for the full term of six years from the 

 4th of March, having received a majority of 

 the votes of both Houses. The session closed 

 on the 27th of March. By far the greater part 

 of the time had been occupied with special and 

 local legislation. 



Early in the session the following resolutions 

 were adopted: 



Resolved by ihe Senate and House of Representatives 

 of ihe State of Delaware in General Assembly met, 

 That Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United 

 States, in causing the invasion of the State of Louis- 

 iana, by Federal soldiers, the arrest and the disper- 

 sion of the members of the House of Representa- 

 tives thereof, and the subsequent illegal and forcible 

 organization of a body of men to act as the repre- 

 sentative of said State, was guilty of an act of crim- 

 inal usurpation which has no parallel in the history 

 of the republic ; that such action was not only un- 

 authorized, but in plain violation of the Constitution 

 of the United States, and tends directly to the sub- 

 version of constitutional government and the de- 

 struction of the Federal Union. 



Resolved, That we, the representatives of the State 

 of Delaware, which was the first to adopt the Federal 

 Constitution, do in their name and in their behalf 

 record our most solemn protest against this danger- 

 pus act of usurpation by the Federal Executive, and 

 invoke the authoritative mandate of the people of 

 the whole country, that the constitutional limitations 

 upon the exercise of the executive power shall be 

 observed ; that usurpation shall immediately cease ; 

 that constitutional government shall be preserved; 

 and civil liberty shall be maintained in every sover- 

 eign State of the Union, and that the military in fact, 

 as it is in law, be made aubservient to the civil power. 



Resolved, That we heartily sympathize with the 

 people of Louisiana in their oppressed condition, 

 and commend the patience and forbearance with 

 which they have borne the unprovoked assaults upon 

 their constitutional rights and liberties by the mili- 

 tary power of the country. 



Resolved, That our Senators are hereby instructed, 

 and our Representatives in Congress requested, to 

 use all legal means in their power to secure to the 

 State of Louisiana her just rights under the Consti- 

 tution of the United States, as a sovereign State of 

 the Federal Union. 



The important subjects of legislation which 

 engaged attention related to the public schools, 

 the regulation of the liquor-traffic, granting 

 State aid to railroads, increasing representa- 

 tion, and a few others of less note. After con- 

 siderable discussion a school-bill was passed, 

 making the President of Delaware College, the 

 Secretary of State, and the State Auditor, a 

 Board of Education, the Auditor to be the 

 Secretary, with a compensation of $100 a year. 



