THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Macarty to Rouille
(December 8, 1752)
Macarty in: Archives Nationales, Ministere
des Colonies, C13A 36:313-314 and
in Pease and Jenison, French
Series, III, pp. 789-793.
MONSEIGNEUR:
I have had the honor of giving an account to Your Greatness on my arrival of the disorders in which I found the tribes, and (page 790) of what has happened since my arrival here. As peace is more advantageous than war with the Indians I have appeased many difficulties in the hope of reclaiming our enemies, letting them bear attacks by our allies and leaving them in want of ammunition. They seek to be reconciled to us and beg us to supply their needs. They say that they are sorry at what has happened and that they were stirred up through the practices of the English. The most blameworthy do not dare to present themselves here for fear of being arrested. There is every appearance that we shall make peace between our domiciled Indians and the Foxes and Sauk, some of whom have been concerned in the general attack and have taken the side of the rebels. As it is necessary to keep them attached to us, I have given an account to the governor of Canada and to M. de Vaudreuil of all that has happened here. In consequence of the disorder among the tribes, M. de Longueuil, as general, wrote me jointly with M. Bigot that they have decided to send off next spring a detachment of nine hundred men commanded by M. le Chevalier de Longueuil, (page 791) lieutenant of the king at Quebec, which should oblige the rebels to give up the murderers who have made these last attacks on the French, and which, according to the disposition in which the Indians were found, should make war or peace. . .
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