Oberlin City (part 2 of 2)

Dear Brother Shipherd

.... I intended to have mentioned to you previously my design to resign the office of president of the association to perpetuate the professorships. I have communicated the same to Mr. I. W. Clark, the secretary. I have so much business of various

The enemy has come out with great wrath and fury. Unusual excitement prevails in the South and in fact throughout the country. Threats of ition and abduction are loud and frequent. My brother is the special object of the blood-th vengeance of the slavery men. What measures they may take it is impossible to foresee. I suppose the "prudent" abolitionists will accuse us of some injudicious measures that have excited the people throughout the United States, and we shall be told, "The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself." My house has been named in a hand-bill signed Judge Lynch, as a mark of popular fury. Hut hitherto the Lord has preserved us, and blessed be his holy name !

The executive committee are firm to a man, determined to go forward, even at the expense of property and life. We feel a calmness and confidence in God that supports us in this trying hour. Out of one hundred and seventy-five thousand publications issued by the American Antislavery Soc in July, only one thousand were- burnt at ton,

My Respected Friend

I am very sorry that in consequence of my having passed several sleepless nights, I was not able to enter so fully as I could have wished, into the object of your mission to this country, when you did me the honor of calling upon me. It is a matter of great pleasure to have had from you an account of the Oberlin establishment. I cannot but take a deep interest in its welfare, seeing how many desirable objects it combines, and how well calculated it is, but particularly at this moment, to meet prejudices, and to oppose the efforts of interested men, who set themselves up, in defiance of the laws of God, to trample under foot human liberty, and to reduce man, to whom the powers of intellect were given, to the situation of the brute. I know not to what a degrading state your unhappy country will be brought, unless a stop be put to slavery. Will you continue long, unless you change your measures, to be reckoned among the civilized nations of the earth? To be familiar with the sound of injustice daily in your cars, and to lend no helping hand, must produce in time a taint or corruption which must injure the moral character. Has not this corruption already begun? Has it not proceeded from blacks to whr

Surely it could never have been fore that this would ever have been the case in the :ed States. It becomes you, therefore, to do all you can to wipe away this stain from your country. And I rejoice, therefore, to hear that the Oberlin Society has risen up, and that it has had the courage to rise up under such circumstances, amidst the growing darkness and immorality spreading r your once happy land, to meet the evil in :ion.

that they should have listened to the petition of American Abolitionists, whom we are unfortunately obliged to consider as aliens in point of country, though they sprang from ourselves. Their motive could only have been a real compassion for the distressed. I trust that God in his providence is opening a way through the Oberlin Society, or that he will open a way, for the relief of the oppressed of our fellow creatures who are the subject of this letter.

Wife

conception of the opposition and prejudice existing against Oberlin College in the Legislature. This year it arises principally from the numerous petitions presented last year for the repeal of its charter and from a book, 4< Oberlin Unmasked," passing round in the House, and a thousand unfavorable rumors in relation to amalgamation, fanaticism, harboring fugitive slaves, etc., all founded upon rumor^ without any evidence of their truth before the Legislature.

Mr. McNulty, of the llou-e. at the commci; ment of tin- session, on notice, introduced a bill for the repeal of the Oberlin College charter, \\hich U still pending. It is now in the hand-. of the Com mittee "ii Corporations in that branch of ll: lature. They had not reported yesterday. I1 now pretty generally thought that it will pass the If so, then will come on the war in the ite.

I will say to you that I had a little flare-up in Senate on the subject of a bill to incorporate the Dialectic Association of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute [a college literary society]. The passage of the bill came on when I was the most melancholy in rd to news from home. I said nothing in its favor. The yeas and nays being called for, it was lost.

or all the rumors about the people there are unfounded. They are willing for an examination even by a committee from those most prejudiced against Oberlin College. I say also that they are a component part of my constituency whose rights are invaded without any just cause, as there is not a petition presented to either branch of the Legislature this session for a repeal of their charter. If the subject comes up in the Senate I shall contend against it inch by inch.

I also say that I am no Abolitionist, nor a disciple of Oberlin, but I want to see the rights of all protected on the principle of the old Democratic motto, " Equal and exact justice to all men."

I have opened a correspondence with H. C. Taylor, of Oberlin, who is furnishing me with papers, etc., to enable me to make defence against a repeal. I hope the bill will not pass the House. If it does I shall do the best I can on the subject, whether I am condemned or applauded in my own county.

When I see the rights of people invaded with as much vituperation as they are, right, justice to myself and my country urge me to rise in their defence, though they may think differently from me on most subjects.

Index

Antislavery Excitement, 365 Antislavery Leci Antislavery Voting, 1 1 1 Appeal to Corporation of London, 209 Appendix, 305 Arnold, Mr- Athletic Association, 262 Attendance of Young Women,

Baptism of the Spirit, 93 Barnard, Mrs., 144 harrows, Rev. E, P., 287 Beardsley, Julius O., 137 Benevolence Theory, 84 Bible Classes, 257 Biblical Study, 256 Boarding Hall, A New, 44 Branch, Miss Eliza, 38 Branch, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel,

Cabinet, 233

Church for the College, 104 Church Organized, 47 Cincinnati Hall, 219, 67 Citizens Indicted, 123 Class Prayer Meetings, 258 Cleveland University, 278 Cochran, Prof. William, 94,

Coeducation, 173, 182 College Buildings, 216 College Chapel, 225 Cc liege Class, The First, 49 College Farm, 186 College Farm Leased, 192 College Park, 243 College Discipline, 263 College Work, 248 'College Work in the War, 171 College Treasurers, 297 College Journalism, 260 College, Undenominational, 107 'Collegiate Institute, The Name,

Colony, Objection to, 25, 307 Colored Population, 113 Colored Schools, 135, 145 Colored Students, in, 342 Colored Students Received, 55 Colored Student, The First, 74 Commencement, 266 Commencement in the War,

Commencement, The First, 46 Come-outerism, 85 Company C, 162, 176, 168 Confession of Faith, 98, 101 Conflict on Leaving Home, 22 Congregational Association, 99 Conservatory Organized, 201 Conservatory, Origin of, 197 Conservatory Endowment, 203 Consultation in New York, 58 Contributions at Oberlin, 216 Convention at Cleveland, 128 Copeland, John, 157 Covenant, The Oberlin, 25 Corporation of London, 367 Council Hall, 230 Cowles, Rev. John P., 84, 287 Cowles, Rev. Henry, 284 Cox, Gen. J. D., 170 Cox, Mr. Kenyon, 235 Cross, Rev. R. T., 302 Cross Lanes, Battle of, 164

Holbrook Professorship, 213 Hotels, 43, 242 Honors and Prizes, 266 Houses, Color of, 47 House of College Farmer, 224 Hudson, Prof. T. B., 287 Hull, Mr. Charles J., 215 Hymn of Prof. Allen, 199

LABORATORIES, 229, 234 Laboratory, The first, 222 Ladies' Board, 178 Ladies' Course, 178 Ladies' Hall, 182 Ladies' Hall, The first, 218 Ladies' Hall, The new, 227 Ladies in College Classes, 178 Lady Graduates, The first, 179 Laird, Rev. J. H., 302 Lane Seminary Students, 51

Manual Labor, Prices, 45 Manual Labor, Relics of, 193 Manufactures, 244 Mead, Prof. Hiram, 299 Merrill, Mr. J. W., 296 Missionaries, Recent, 145 Missionary Work, 133 Missions, Self-Sustaining, 134 Mission to Canada, 135

Presbytery of Richland, 146 Preston, James A., 136 President's House, 69 Principal's Prep. Dept., 301 Printing Establishments, 245 Prisoners at New Orleans, 165 Professor Street, 221 Professors at Lane, 52 Professorship Association, 65,

Railroad, 237

SABBATH, Influence of, 88 Sabbath Services, 70 Salaries for Teachers, 316 Salaries of Professors, 214 Saloons, 245 Saw Mill, 37 Scovill, J. F., 37 Sears, Mr. Willard, 208, 295 Second Advent, Discussion of,

TABOR College, 151 Tappan Hall, 69, 220 Tappan, Arthur, Offer of, 54 Tappan, Arthur, Pledge of, 65 Tappan, Mr. Lewis. 144 Taste in Building. I Teachers Nominated, 314, 333 Tea and Coffee. 43, 45 Tcft. Dr and Mrs., 140 Temperance Raisings. 4; Ten: Angeline.