My visit to Chicago in 1857—Bishop Vandeveld—His 506-521 Predecessor Poisoned—Magnificent Prairies of the West—Return to Canada—Bad Feelings of Bishop Bourget—I decline sending a rich Woman to the Nunnery to enrich the Bishop—A Plot to Destroy me
The Plot to Destroy me—The Interdict—The Retreat 522-534 at the Jesuits’ College—The Lost Girl, Employed by the Bishop, retracts—The Bishop Confounded, sees his Injustice, makes amends—Testimonial Letters—The Chalice—The Benediction before I leave Canada
Address presented me at Longueuil—I arrive at 535-541 Chicago—I select the spot for my Colony—I build the first Chapel—Jealousy and Opposition of the Priests of Bourbonnais and Chicago—Great Success of the Colony
Intrigues, Impostures, and Criminal life of the 542-553 Priests in Bourbonnais—Indignation of the Bishop—The People ignominiously turn out the Criminal Priests from their Parish—Frightful Scandal—Faith in the Church of Rome seriously Shaken
The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary 570-579
The Abomination of Auricular Confession 580-602
The Ecclesiastical Retreat—Conduct of the 603-616 Priests—The Bishop Forbids me to Distribute the Bible
Public Acts of Simony—Thefts and Brigandage of 617-629 Bishop O’Regan—General Cry of Indignation—I determine to resist him to his face—He employs Mr. Spink again to send me to Gaol, and he fails—Drags me as a Prisoner to Urbana in the Spring of 1856 and fails again—Abraham Lincoln defends me—My dear Bible becomes more than ever my Light and my Counselor
Bishop O’Regan sells the Parsonage of the French 630-642 Canadians of Chicago, pockets the money, and turns them out when they come to complain—He determines to turn me out of my Colony and send me to Kahokia—He forgets it next day and publishes that he has Interdicted me—My People send a Deputation to the Bishop—His Answers—The Sham Excommunication by three drunken Priests
Address from my People, asking me to remain—I am 643-667 again dragged as a prisoner by the Sheriff to Urbana—Abraham Lincoln’s anxiety about the issue of the Prosecution—My Distress—The Rescue—Miss Philomena Moffat sent by God to save me—LeBelle’s Confession and Distress—My Innocence acknowledged—Noble Words and Conduct of Abraham Lincoln—The Oath of Miss Philomena Moffat