 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - Algonquian Indians - 1885 - 340 pages
...the Lenape, he broke out upon them with the words: — " How came you to take upon you to sell land ? We conquered you. We made women of you. You know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. * • * * We charge you to remove instantly. We don't give you the liberty to think about it. We assign... | |
 | Edwin MacMinn - Germans - 1886 - 332 pages
...fifteen and upwards ; but how come you' continued he to the Dela wares," ' to take upon you to sell lands at all ? We conquered you ; we made women of you ;...nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim has gone through your guts ; you have been... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1887 - 402 pages
...you are bent to break the chain of friendship. How came you to take upon you to sell land at all 1 We conquered you ; we made women of you ; you know...you are women, and can no more sell land than women. This land you claim is gone down your throats ; you have been furnished with clothes, meat, and drink,... | |
 | John Mason Brown - Kentucky - 1889 - 282 pages
...bad faith, Canassateego thus reproved the Delawares for their presumption: "But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all ? We conquered you; we...Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim is gone thro' your guts; you have been furnished... | |
 | George Brubaker Kulp - Pennsylvania - 1892 - 178 pages
...some of yourselves and chiefs now living, to the number of fifteen or upward. But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all. We conquered you, we...Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands since you would abuse it. This land that you claim has gone through your bellies ; you have been... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1892 - 408 pages
...other hand, your cause is bad, and you are bent to break the chain of friendship. How came you to take upon you to sell land at all ? We conquered you ;...you are women, and can no more sell land than women. This land you claim is gone down your throats ; you have been furnished with clothes. meat, and drink,... | |
 | United States - 1892 - 790 pages
...London, 1794. $ Ibid., p. 59. \\Ioid., p, 68. 1T Ibid., p. 51. Compare Kalin, Trareln, vol. n, p. 42. *'"We conquered you; we made women of you; you know...are women, and can no more sell land than women." Colden, History of the Fire. Nations, vol. n, p. 80 : London, 1767. See also Speech of John Hudson,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Middle Atlantic States - 1898 - 254 pages
...recover your senses and become sober. . . . But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? AVe conquered you ; we made women of you ; you know you are women and can no more sell laud than women ; nor is it fit you should have the power since you would abuse it. ... We charge you... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1893 - 816 pages
...Ibid., p. 51. Compare Kalin, Travel*, vol. II, p. 42. **"We conquered yon; we made women of yon; yon know you are women, and can no more sell land than -women." Colden, History of tlie Fire Rations, vol. II, p. SO: London, 1767. See also Speech of John Hudson,... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1897 - 312 pages
...other hand, your cause is bad, and you are bent to break the chain of friendship. How came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we...you are women, and can no more sell land than women. This land you claim is gone down your throats; you have been furnished with clothes, meat, and drink... | |
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But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. 
