He was proud of this Indian blood, took an especial interest in Indians, and whenever Indians came to Washington they always called on him.

Once during my Administration a delegation of Iroquois came over from Canada to call on me at the White House.

Their visit had in it something that was pathetic as well as amusing.

They represented the descendants of the Six Nations, who fled to Canada after Sullivan harried their towns in the Revolutionary War.

Now, a century and a quarter later, their people thought that they would like to come back into the United States; and these representatives had called upon me with the dim hope that perhaps I could give their tribes land on which they could settle.