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

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1859

pg 380       the terms of the contract, including the past as well as the 
             future.
                  3.  If the Congregation or any of its members had not done 
             their duty, I ought to have been informed of it before receiving 
             orders to leave the city.  [To attend to] the former was one of my 
             duties, the latter was out of my power.
                  4.  We were urged by Mgr. O'Regan to come to the city.  I 
             cannot see that we failed through our fault in anything that we 
             had undertaken to do, except in the payment of the rent, which we 
             thought ourselves justified in delaying for a time.
                  5.  If an impartial judge would make a comparison between the 
             state in which we found all things three years ago and that in 
             which we leave them, we should not fear the result.
                  6.  We made no profit, but rather find a deficit of more than 
             a thousand dollars, not to speak of about thirty members for 
             nearly three years, the cause being the hard times and the non-
             payment of schooling.  It is easy to ascertain the condition of