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

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1855

pg 265            In the meantime the chapter of the Lake had to take a 
             definite stand as regards the foundation of New York.  Everybody 
             there was so tired of troubles and domestic dissensions that any 
             means of restoring peace would have been welcomed as a blessing 
             from heaven, unless it were evidently disfigured by sin.  Now in 
             the present case there was no question of sin, nor of any 
             obligation of justice, since we could even yet leave New York in 
             the state in which we had found it.  There was merely question of 
             a great humiliation for us, but even in this humiliation there 
             appeared the hope of putting an end to all quarrels and 
             disagreements; and the recall of the Mother Superior was resolved 
             upon, as well as that Mother M. of the Five Wounds should be sent 
             to the post to which she had recently been elected, according to 
             the latest documents from France.
                  To the ecclesiastical authorities in New York the truth was 
             stated in the simplest and most inoffensive manner, which 
             accounted to the declaration that, in consequence of the changes 
             in the intention of the Mother House, it appeared that Ste. Croix