 | Local history - 1849 - 336 pages
...for its liberality upon that occasion, an aged Indian, who represented the Delawares, thus spoke : " Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle...territorial limits our brethren still remain. Nothing save benizens can fall upon her, from the lips of a Lenni Lenappi." Well may we exclaim on behalf of New... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1846 - 584 pages
...former times, has actuated Uie councils of this commonwealth in dealing with the aboriginal inhabitants. Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle...territorial limits our brethren still remain. Nothing save bcnisons can fall upon her from the lips of a Lenni Lcnappi. There may be some who would despise an... | |
 | Richard Stockton Field - Courts - 1849 - 336 pages
...its liberality upon that occasion, an aged Indian, who represented the , Delawares, thus spoke : " Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle...territorial limits our brethren still remain. Nothing save benizens can fall upon her, from the lips of a Lenni Lenappi." Well may we exclaim on behalf of New... | |
 | Richard Stockton Field - Courts - 1849 - 336 pages
...for its liberality upon that occasion, an aged Indian, who represented the Delawares, thus spoke : " Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle...territorial limits our brethren still remain. Nothing save benizens can fall upon her, from the lips of a Lenni Lenappi." Well may we exclaim on behalf of New... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Elizabeth G. Barber - United States - 1850 - 200 pages
...sense of justice ever shown by the people of New Jersey, to a feeble and wasted people. Said he, " not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle....Not an acre of our land have you taken but by our content. * * * There may be some who would despise an Indian benediction: but when I return to my people,... | |
 | 1850 - 112 pages
...Calvin, in an address made to the Legislature of the State in 1832, to say, " Not a drop of our Mood have you spilled in battle — not an acre of our land have you taken but by our consent;" and to declare that " nothing save henizens " could fall upon our State from the lips of a Lenni Lennapi.... | |
 | Jonathan French Stearns - Newark (N.J.) - 1853 - 372 pages
...of the State generally, belongs in an eminent degree to their puritan fathers in this settlement. " Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle...acre of our land have you taken but by our consent."* Taught by their experience of former perils, they prepared themselves for defence, and took especial... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...commonwealth in dealing with the aboriginal mha Not n a t8 drop of our blood have you spilled in battle-not an acre of our land have you taken but by our consent....facts speak for themselves, and need no comment. They nu™ the character of New Jersey in bold relief and bright example to thoBe states within wCe territorial... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...councils of this commonwealth in dealing with the aboriginal inhabitants. Not a drop of our blood have yon spilled in battle — not an acre of our land have you taken but by oar consent. These facts speak for themselves, and need no comment. They place the character of New... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1868 - 604 pages
...her record is without a stain. Said an Indian orator, when addressing the New Jersey Legislature, " Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle. — not an acre of our land have you taken but with our consent." In the struggle for Independence, her territory became the ''Battle field of the... | |
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Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle* — not an acre of our land have you taken but by our consent. 
