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Early Detroit
" I do my best to make the Jesuits my friends, wishing truly to be theirs; but, if I dare say it, all impiety apart, it would be better to speak against God than against them, because, on the one side, a person might receive His pardon, but on the other, the offense, even though doubtful, is never forgiven in this world, and would not be in the other, if their credit were as good there as it is in this country. "
It is at least doubtful whether this mutual enmity between De la Motte and the Jesuits had its sole orgin in this brandy warfare. It must be borne in mind that the golden age of the Jesuits had passed.
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