I am profoundly convinced that it is harmful. They distrust the spirit of liberty whose first efforts have been directed against them. Having, besides, always lived under the sway of monarchical institutions which protected them, they are naturally led to regret that protection. They are therefore victims of an inevitable error. If they could live in this country, they would not be long in changing their opinions.
All religious beliefs are on the same footing here.
There are tribes which retain confused notions of the religion taught them by the Jesuits, and which return very quickly to Christianity. When one can reach them, the Indian tribes generally recall with veneration the memory of the Black Robes . A. Nothing is more true. I have often admired the profound sense and conciseness of their speeches. They burn, and torment their prisoners in a thousand ways.