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

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1855

pg 246            Such is briefly the history of the melancholy annals of this 
             foundation, which, alone, gave more trouble and vexation to Notre 
             Dame and to Ste. Croix that any other foundation since the 
             beginning of the Congregation.  God permitted this, no doubt to 
             open the eyes of everybody and to bring about, in due time, 
             measures calculated to secure the peace and happiness of all the 
             members for the future.  It cost much to learn the dangers and the 
             needs of this country.  Let us hope that such dear experience will 
             be profitable to all.
                  The administration of the Lake had no desire to show itself 
             again in New Orleans, where it had been so grossly insulted and 
             humiliated, by the discourses of the Father referred to above and 
             by the scandalous quarrels which he had provoked and continued to 
             ferment between Ste. Croix and the Lake.  It was remembered that 
             when F. Guesdon had been sent thither from France, he said openly 
             to F. Rooney whom the Lake had sent there some months before, at 
             the repeated request of Ste. Croix as Local Superior, that the 
             Mother House had never had such an intention.