New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-16

Europe on the plea that they had setted on
English territory. 1t Is no wonder that ne
thought III OF the English heretcs. and Expressed
his conviction that they were In league with
Satan He and his companions had learned now
to converse with the Indians In mixed tongue
they had got the catechism translated, and were
beginning to look for a harvest as missionaries
and TO- at this moment" he exclaims. 1.-The one
who IL Jealous OF all good and particularly OF
human salvation came. and. wckedly sett'hs
fire TO all our work. bore us away from the Heiu'
May the victorious Jesus. with HIS powerful
hand and invincible WISDOM confound MIN.
Ainsi soit-il." All Of which was only matter LOT
thanksgiving among the Virginians, VINO had
their own version Of Argalls raid and their re-
sponse to the pious 'ainsi sot-ir' In the so
mote it be- of Elizabethan preachers
The Jesuits soon found that 1t was one thing
to criticise the hasty acts of a lonely minister
from the safe distance of the French Court. and
another thing to take his place and do better.
They questioned the powers and conservation
Of the pastor, who had Papal approval and
Huguenot sympathes, with credentials obtained
over the heads of the French Catholic prelates.
His title of Patriarch. with its suggestion OF
Oriental Guardianship and independence. was
a thing which apparently caused them much
thought. But while the order in France enlarged
on the Irregularities in the colony, the mis-
sionaries made friends with their predecessor.
speeded him as parting guest and counted
his labor with their own when they computed
the injury the devil had done in letting the Vir-
yinians loose against them. While they con-
fined theif own baptisms to the dying. they be-
came even enthusiastic about the character OF
one Of the Patriarchs converts. 1t Is hard to
say what the ratio was of reverence for royalty
to pure love of exaggeration In the expressions
OF early explorers about American chieftains.
The stir about allowing Pocahontas to marry an
untitled Englishman the incredible rnisunder-
standing as to Montezuma's real authority, and
many other incidents Of the kind, show that
white men carried their own political traditions
to an absurd length in speaking OF the red men.
But owing to the little religious difficulty which
attended the very origin of Acadia, the French
soon corrected their notions Of savage monarchy.
1t was a great political move for the Patriarch
to have baptized the head man Of the Micmacs.
but as reported In France, this head man be-
came the sycamore Of all New-France. Les
carbot took the trouble to trace the word saga
more" back to the Hebrew term "sogan" thus
helping forward an exceedingly unprohtable
theory about the descent Of the Indians which
has lasted to the present day. Now the Jesuits.
having had nothing to do with converting the
sycamore, were not tempted to exaggerate his
authority. Lescarbot had truthfully explained
that the position Of an Indian chief was not
at all like that of French king. But the
Jesuits soon made 1t clear that the chieftainship
was largely a matter OF personal merit. They
were not able to clear ZIP the distinction which
the Indians made among the families Of their
tribes amounting almost to the European caste
system Of mobiles and commons, but they saw
that the boasted authority Of the sycamore was
nothing more than one Of their own order might
attain among the Indians by clever manage
ment