The Iroquois pillage our Frenchmen every where they meet them, and threaten to fire their settlements which are much exposed and unfortified. These measures, and the discredit we are in among all the savages for having abandoned our allies in M. de la Barre's time, for having suffered them to be exterminated by the Iroquois and borne the insults of the latter, render war against them absolutely necessary to avert from us a General Rebellion of the Savages which would bring ruin on our trade and finally the extirpation of our 7.

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Colony. It is likewise

necessary for the establishment of Religion which will never spread itself there

except by the destruction of the Iroquois

:

so that

on the success of the war which the Governor-

General of Canada proposes to commence against the Iroquois on the 15 th of May next, depends either the Ruin of the Country and of Religion if he be not assisted, or the Establishment of Religion,

Commerce and the Kings' Power over all North America if he be granted the aid he demands. If the merit in the eyes of God, the Glory and utility which the King will derive from this succor

be considered, it is easy to conclude that expense was never better employed since, independent of the Salvation of the quantity of Souls in that vast Country to which His Majesty will contribute

by

establishing the Faith there, he will secure to himself an Empire of more than a thousand leagues in