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

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1858

pg 322            The immediate consequence of this failure of F. Sorin to 
             prove his titles was to increase public distrust.  On the week when 
             he was to set out for the Council the South Bend court was in 
             session.  The house had to defend a suit growing chiefly out of 
             this unfortunate matter of defective titles, and F. Sorin was 
             politely informed that if, in the present state of affairs, he 
             left or attempted to leave the State of Indiana, he would be 
             arrested at the station.  The idea of going to the Council had 
             therefore to be abandoned.
                  Perhaps it would have been better to give the Archbishop a 
             statement of affairs just as they stood, but this would have been 
             a complaint; F. Sorin preferred to give as his excuse that he had 
             engagement which prevented him from assisting at the Council.
                  Here, as on many other occasions, F. Sorin made a mistake.  
             His absence from the Council was severely blamed, and the good 
             Bishop of Vincennes, who was the sole cause, was unsparing in his 
             complaints.  If the letter already mentioned is truthful, he