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power to convey, for a little rum, a few blankets and trinkets,
and these constituted the ground upon which the patent of
was
KAYADEROS~ERAS granted. It is a curious fact, that one
of the patentees of that patent was the great-grandfather of Dr.
BOUGHTON.
Mr. QUINNEY'S speech contains several hard hits. After
speaking of the lams passed to legalize titles fraudulently ob-
tained, he puts the following questions : "Will you look stead-
ily at the intrigues, bargains, corruption and log-rolling of
thepresent Legislatures, and see any trace of the divinity of
justiee? And by what test shall Ce tried the acts of the old
Colonial Courts and Councils ?"
Well and stoutly put. Who will answer them?
The last half of this speech is admirable. It is a bold, stern
and manly protest against the uniform and persistent injustice
which has been meted out to the Indian race. We hope to see
it republished in all the newspapers of the country.-Albany
Pree-Holder, July 12, 1854.

QUINNEY'S Speech.
It may appear to those whom 1 have the honor to address, a
singular taste, for me, an Indian, to take an interest in the tri-
umphal days of a people, who occupy by conquest, or have
usurped the possession of the territories of my fathers, and
havc laid and carefully preserved, a train of terrible miseries,
to end when my race shall have ceased to exist. But thanks to
.the fortunate circumstances of my life, I have been taught in
the schools, and been able to read your histories and accounts
of Europeans, yourselves and the Red Man ; which instruct
me, that while your rejoicings to-day are commemorative of the
free birth of this giant na~ion, they simply convey to my mind,
the recollection of a transfer of the miserable weakness and de-
pendancc of my race from one great power to another.
My fricnds, I am getting old, and have witnessed, for many
years, your increase in wealth and power, while the steady con-