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

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1851

pg 158       there is a lack of the persons and of the means to take such care 
             of them as their weakness requires.
                  It is just as hard to keep them from drinking as it is to 
             make them work.  This tells plainly that religion alone can oppose 
             a sufficiently strong dike to their violent passions, and that 
             without the savages will only furnish a repulsive picture of 
             corruption, debauchery, and cruelty, and consequently destruction. 
             With frequent religious exercises, sermons, confessions, they may 
             be good; without them, it is pitiable.

                        5.  Misunderstandings and their Consequences

                  The house of the Lake had cherished the hope that F. Baroux 
             would return charged with pacific documents from the Mother House. 
             It was quite the contrary.
                  It seems that at Sainte Croix the complaints that had been 
             received from America had not been understood, and that they were 
             rather looked upon as lies, or at least as exaggerations.  The 
             person and official remarks both as regards certain individuals 
             and on some grave principles, were put entirely to one side and 
             left unanswered, and discontent, instead of diminishing with time, 
             which smoothes down and destroys all things, was only on the 
             increase.