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

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1861

pg 419       had obtained from their benefactors nearly half the amount: the 
             rest came from the property of the Congregation.
                  Thus far all things seemed to be moving harmoniously.  The 
             Bishop was well pleased, as he himself wrote to the Superior 
             General in France when mentioning the services rendered him by the 
             Congregation.  However, this good will, real or apparent, was soon 
             to pass away without any possibility of assigning a cause for the 
             change.  A pretext was sought in the change of the superior of the 
             college; but before there was even talk of naming a successor for 
             him the Bishop had veered around.  The Father himself could not be 
             permitted in that.
                  At the solemn distribution of premiums in the college the 
             Bishop, who was in town and whom everybody expected, did not make 
             his appearance.
                  If the cause of his return to his first dispositions was not 
             easy to discover, the object was readily seen:  the Bishop again 
             wanted to resume possession, and to bring this about he had only 
             to attack the Congregation on the one point, whose facility had 
             efficacy he had discovered.