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

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1861

pg 446            The administration of Notre Dame is quite willing to see 
             herein one more effect of perfidious insinuations and intrigues of 
             Bro. Amedee, but it is none the less convinced that this 
             establishment at New York, under the circumstances in which it was 
             made, is an apple of discord very unwisely cast by the General 
             Administration, and that no honorable nor religious principle will 
             ever be found to justify it.  It is a shameful piece of underhand 
             work coolly and unnecessarily perpetrated on the administration of 
             the Lake, which in 1856 was sanctioned and directed by Ste. Croix 
             in its act of closing New York.
                  The two facts that we have just related will perhaps seem to 
             be told with some bitterness; but if one knew the memories still 
             fresh in the mind of the narrator, they paint very imperfectly the 
             anguish caused by the former and the vexation of the second.  F. 
             Sorin had returned from Europe with increased devotedness to the 
             Mother House; but to his unspeakable regret the conduct of Ste.