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

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1865

pg 491       majority.  The Chapter seemed to have established peace and 
             harmony, and during some months it might have been believed that 
             concord would finally succeed the interminable miseries of the 
             past.  If His Reverence had cordially accepted the result of those 
             measure which his bad will had called forth, there is no proof 
             that the consequences would not have been all that could be 
             desired.  But everything had turned against him, and Notre Dame, 
             which he wished to humiliate, had gained a victory which it had 
             not even desired.  The defeat was too humiliating to be accepted 
             by him.  That was not the spirit of the Superior General nor of 
             the nephew.
                  It is hardly necessary to state that the decrees of a Chapter 
             so unfavorable to the higher authorities were of no effect.  Even 
             before putting them to the test, the union of the novitiates into 
             one, which had been decreed, nor pronounced to be an 
             impossibility, as also the administration of so vast a Province by 
             one man.  The Rev. F. Charles [Moreau] in New York would have been