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

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1865

pg 489            The General Chapter of 1863 had decreed the fusion of the 
             Provinces of Indiana, Canada, and Louisiana into one, whose seat 
             was to be fixed later on.  This measure was simply an act of 
             resentment of the Very Rev. F. General and of his nephew, who 
             sought merely to lower Notre Dame du Lac.  It was pitiful to hear 
             them talk of its insolence, etc; and, according to them and some 
             others, this poor mission of Notre Dame hardly deserved to live, 
             and its suppression or its ruin would not cause a single tear.
                  Painful though the admission may be, there appears to exist 
             no doubt that His Reverence and nephew were constantly seeking 
             means to be revenged on Notre Dame.  The fusion just mentioned had 
             no other cause; this was no secret to any of the members, not only 
             of the Chapter, but of the Congregation.  The intention was to fix 
             the seat of the new Province at New York.  The Superior General 
             himself said to the writer of these pages that he was thinking of 
             placing his nephew in New York as Assistant General, with the