Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1850

pg 144              8.  Journey of F. Sorin to New Orleans, July 4th 1850

                  Next day after the Distribution of Premiums a letter more 
             urgent than any of its predecessors having come from New Orleans, 
             the Minor Chapter, thinking that the existence of our members was 
             seriously threatened in Louisiana unless instant means were taken 
             to check the evils that a turbulent and ambitious individual was 
             causing to grow in proportions day by day, recognized the 
             necessity of a visit by the F. Superior himself; and on the 
             evening of the same day he started for the South.
                  He remained eight days at New Orleans, gave the Brothers and 
             Sisters a retreat, arranged everything in a satisfactory manner 
             for those two branches, but could not make any impression on the 
             haughty dispositions of the man who ought to give all the others 
             the example of submission, and who, far from doing so, told all 
             that would listen to him that he was to be named Local Superior of 
             New Orleans by the Mother House in spite of F. Sorin.  The latter, 
             however, had already received from F. Rector, several months