Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-19

certain threats OF Wob violence, winch we had re-
ceived through anonymous letters and flying re-
ports to which neUer attached any Importance.
They treated the whole matter trilling affair,
saying that "Mr. Burns had made his noise and
the southern students their noise" and that they
ought to quit even, "or that Mr.. Burns should make
acknowledgements to the Southern students.
Messrs FOUte and Encell expressed our willing
ness to abide by college laws but absolute rcfH.
sal to submit to the legislation of Southern stu
dents.
On that evening after meeting of the Faculty
Prof Marbleck appeared before some of us and
urged that We submit to the Faculty at once, as
. suring us that unless did, the Faculty had de-
cided to expel all, and publish our expulsion in
the leading papers of the Union, thus shutting all
college doors against us forever-to whom we re-
! piled that we ask Justice not Mercy.
! On Wednesday morning we assembled to hear
the decision ef the Faculty with regard to our res.
olutions. Prof W. Is, Pendleton took the stand
in behalf of the Faculty and argued the case with
an eye single to Southern glory.
lie sad that hereafter the subject Of slavery
was not to be agitnted IN Bethany College, that
certain Northern students were causing disturb
ance and trampling on college laws that these
students were young fanatics not capable of wear
ing respectable boards ;" that "they had never
mastered single science )" that ''they were poor
| specimens of nothern humanity" &C., &c. He
said that certain students had informed the Facul-
! ty on what condition they would remain in the
| College, and now he would tell them what con-
! ditions they might remain, Wis That they imme-
diatey return to their places in their classes assu-
rngu us that the Faculty would not grant our peti-
tons, or do anything further concerning the mat
ter. Some Of the Northern students wotwitllstand-
ing their sympathy with us and their hearty as
sent to the resolutions sent in to the Faculty flew
the track and submitted. But we being assured of
the justice of our cause and having at heart the
| good of our fellow-men and the glory of our
| Redeemer determined to abide by our resolutions.
Five OF us left on that evening and the rest on
Thursday morning. The President left on Thurs
day also for Eastern Va. In addition to the above
facts, we deem it our duty to present the following
concerning the morality Of Bethany College:
lntemperance is common even to drunkenness,
although against the laws Of the institution. Pro-
fame swearing is common and gambling rot un-
! known. lis well known that revolyers and bowie
knives are the constant companions Of some of the
students.
! Other vices are prevalent which we will no;
mention, but which are well known to exist through
out the South as the legitimate fruits of the pe-
culiar Institution"
These are some of the facts which caused us to
leave Bethany College. and with these in mind we
ask. Ought we to have remained Again, is il
right for the people of the North to aid in sustain
ing such an institution to the neglect of more de-
serving ones at home ? We have learned since our
departure that five of us have been dismissed from
!
out OF classes, reason which would require the
dismissal of us all. We do not claim that in all
this movement we have acted without any error yet
our aim has ever been to do right.
! We could not surrender our right to liberty of
speech we could not submit to the rule of South
err mob; we could not sustain institution where
slavery and all its attending immoralitiez are not
and may not be dsf0llowshipped and fearlessly
condemned.
We give these facts in the love of the truth, ear
nestly desiring that they may promote the welfare
of man and advance the cause of Christ on the
earth.
PHILLIP BURNS, of CIV.
G. MYCRANTZ, Ohio.
JOHN GUFFIN, Ind
A. b. WAY, Ohio.
III. w. EVEREST, Ohio.
j. KIMMONS Ill.
JOHN ENCELL, Ohio
LEANDER MCCONNELL, Ind
ID. II. VAN BUSKIRK, Ind.
G. c. FOOTE, Ohio.