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

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1861

pg 432            Moreover they also leave, on the portion of the grounds which 
             they occupied, buildings and improvements to the value of $5000, 
             one half of which they paid out of their own funds, and the rest 
             they collected, whilst at the same time they were not receiving 
             one cent of the salary to which they were entitled.  Seeing that 
             in the terms of the contract, which was to last fifty years, the 
             improvements belong to the Bishop, those $5000 of improvements and 
             the $5500 paid the Bishop in cash for five years use of the 
             property, more than compensate him and cause him not a fraction of 
             loss in the operation; whereas the Congregation has given gratis 
             for five years the services of thirty members, who are now 
             forcibly ejected, with a debt of $8000 which they must pay--and 
             all this as the result of a deception the mere suspicion of which 
             would have seemed to them a crime.
                  And today they are not even permitted to make known their 
             grievances.  On the contrary, they must go their way in silence, 
             as if incapable or unworthy of the confidence of the Bishop, who