![]() ![]() It has been a great success for me to come through all the dangers I have in that 15 years. I say that, I have been blessed by God and I hope that you will not take that as a presumptuous assertion. believed to be, insane, Bishop Bourget wrote again and said "Ye be blessed by God and man and take patience in your evil." Am I not taking patience I Will I be blessed by man as I have been by God? And in another letter when I became what Drs. And seeing my intentions, the late Archbishop Bourget said "Riel has no narrow views, he is a man to accomplish great things" and he wrote that letter of which I hope that the Crown has at least a copy. I said : Oh my God! I offer you all my existence for that cause and please to make of my weakness an instrument to help men in my country. But after I had obtained with the help of others a constitution for Manitoba, when the government at Ottawa was not willing to inaugurate it at the proper time, I have worked till the inauguration should take place and that is why I have been banished for five years. They have those institutions today in Manitoba and they try to improve them, while myself who obtained them, I am forgotten as if I was dead. I was working in Manitoba first and I did all I could to get free institutions for Manitoba. ![]() Context: I have not assumed to myself that I had a mission. ![]()
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