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

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1859

pg 379       Bishop refused to treat otherwise than in writing and ended by 
             saying that it was altogether useless to return to a subject 
             positively settled in his mind.  In vain did the Rev. F. Sorin try 
             to induce him to read some lines of the treatise of Bouix, which 
             reserve exclusively to Rome the right of judging the question; he 
             would not read, but added that next day he would take legal 
             measures to secure a legal ejection in due form for August 1st.
                  On the 20th the Rev. F. Sorin addressed him the following 
             letter:
                  Monseigneur:
                  In submitting to you the following copy, I humbly beg to 
             present you here some of the remarks that I wished to make 
             yesterday evening.
                  1.  If up the the present I have refused my consent to our 
             withdrawal from Chicago, it is because I thought it contrary to 
             Canon Law, to our constitutions, and to the laws of the country.
                  2.  We have never denied our obligation to pay the rent, and 
             when our request for the performance of certain promises was 
             rejected, we positively declared that we would pay the rent, in