My Father, I present myself this day before you this day to talk which gives me much pleasure, I speak of War I For I have already begun, I have sent back the Americans from La Prairie du Chien & then I came here to drive them away. Since then I find this Island more solid than when they were here. I believe that I am now under a clear sky. Last year I undertook to crush an embarassement that was in the way; but I could not do it, because I found the Americans, like the beaver, burrowed under ground.
