You are not at New Orleans.

Here I am both the civil and military chief and this is my own place.

I can put you to death as brigands or guerillas, caught red-handed upon Spanish soil." "Both charges, you know, are false," said Paul, "you know, too, that we have come to defeat, if we can, a conspiracy between you and Braxton Wyatt, a renegade whose life is doubly forfeit to his people.

He carries plans, maps, and full information of our settlements in Kentucky, and he expects that you will go with many soldiers and cannon to help him and the tribes destroy us.

What plans you and he have beyond this I do not know, but these, my friends and I hope to defeat, and we feel we could not be engaged in a greater or holier task." Paul spoke with great fire and eloquence.