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Salmon to the Minister
(June 22, 1737)
Salmon in: Dunn, J. P., Mission
to
the Ouabache, pp. 312-313.
No. 26.
Letter from M. Salmon to Minister, 22d June, 1737:
J'apprends par le Sr. Delaloire que le Sr. St. Ange, fils, qui etoit mont a Ouabache pour prendre le Commandement de ce poste la place de feu M. de Vincennes luy marque que les Sauvages qui l'avoisinnent on Envie de l'abandonner que quelques uns d'Entre Eux se sont dja retirs leur ancien Village du Vermillon, en sorte que ne reste plus qu'environ 25 hommes que s'il n'abandonment Comme Ily apparence, on sera Contraint de relever la garnison qui se Troveroit a la mercy des Ennemies. Il ajoute qu'il na point vu Jusques present que ce poste fut d'une Grande utilit, et qu'il cause beaucoup de Depanse, pour moy Je pense qu'Effectivement Il est plus couteux qu'il n'est utile. Cependant Il seroit de Consequence de le Conserver pour Empecher les Anglais de s'y Etablir, ce qu'ils feront certainement si nous l'abandonna.
[TRANSLATION. I learn from Sieur Delaloire that Sieur St. Ange, the son, who had gone up to the Ouabache to take command of that post in place of the late M. de Vincennes, informs him that the Indians of that neighborhood wish to abandon it; that part of them have already retired to their old village of Vermillion, so that there remain only about twenty-five men who have not deserted it. Apparently, we shall be obliged to increase the garrison, which will be at the mercy of the enemy. He adds that he has never seen to the present time that this post was of much utility, and that it causes much expense. For myself, I think that really it is more expensive than useful. However, it will be important to maintain it to keep the English from establishing there, which they will certainly do if we abandon it.]
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DEAR SIR- I have looked through sixteen volumes of MSS.- from the year 1730 to 1744 (I had previously been through the years 1725 to 1730)- but have failed to find the document by Father Beaubois, nor do I find any allusion to it. On his return to New Orleans (early in 1727) he stayed there some years and performed clerical functions, which so annoyed the Capuchins- who claimed an ecclesiastical monopoly- that they denounced him, and insisted on his being recalled. Extract No. 5 is from a long document in his defense by a Jesuit. Every possible argument in his favor is adduced, and if he had done the State some service, and they knew it, his apologist would have mentioned the fact; nor, though it would have been a signal instance of the "meddlesome ambition" with which the Capuchins charged him, do his opponents say anything about it. He returned to France, in 1729, to answer these
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