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The agitation in the North-West Territories would have been constitutional and would certainly be constitutional to-day, if, in my opinion, we had not been attacked.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I do not wish for my satisfaction the name of prophet. Generally that title is accompanied with such a burden, that if there is satisfaction for your vanity there is a check to it.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I say that, I have been blessed by God and I hope that you will not take that as a presumptuous assertion.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am, I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
My father bless me, according to the views of thy Providence which are beautiful and without measure.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I have not assumed to myself that I had a mission.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
Even if I was going to be sentenced by you, Gentlemen of the Jury, I have this satisfaction that if I die, I will not be reputed by all men as insane, as a lunatic.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba; I know that though I have no open road for my influence, I have big influence concentrated, as a big amount of vapour in an engine.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I am blessed by God. It is this trial that is going to show that I am going to be blessed by man during my existence, the benedictions are a guarantee that I was not wronged when by circumstance I was taken away from my adopted land to my native land.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)