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My dear Children, you are thus going to leave for good for your distant and sacred destination. I have but one regret and that is not to accompany you to the ship that will take you, to give you my final blessing and wish you my final greetings.

Children are sold there by auction, and I would if I could remove them from this bad treatment and perhaps from death, by bringing them up in Algeria and then returning them to their own countries with our missionaries – the Society is already in existence.

Tous ces jeunes gens m’avaient charmé par leur excellent aspect, leur dévouement et cet air de modeste assurance qui convient si bien à des missionnaires.

My dear brethren, and you above all, my dear Sons, you who have come to occupy a place of honour in the army which has been formed in accordance with the solemn wish to the Powers of the civilized world against African slavery, I cannot think of delivering a discourse to you, but I would blame myself if I did not, in the name of religion, in the name of France, render public homage to your heroic selfsacrifice.

As for the Capuchins, the first condition I would impose on the government, as I have already stated, would be to respect all their established rights and to touch not a single one of them.