Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-31

FRIEND RoBINsoN-I lately made n visit to the
anti-slavery College at Iberia, Morrow County,
Ohio-ten miles below Crestline on the Cleveland
and Cincinnati railroad. This Institution is under
the care of the Synod Of the Free Presbyterian
Church, but its Professors are connected with
three different denominations, thus divesting its
character Of all sectarian exclusiveness. The
Presidency of the College is committed to the Rev.
George Gordon whose long service in the cause Of
reform is well known, and entities him to the con-
fdence of the public. The Institution Yves much
of its present excellence and future prospects to
the untiring energy and perseverance of Professor
Samuel L, Boyd, who occupies the chair of Lang
uagcs, and whose experience and success in the
art of teaching qualify him to bear his part in an
educational movement like this.
As at Antioch and Oberlin, SO here, the sexes
associate on terms of perfect equality both in
the recitation room and On the Rostrum. Old
Hunke.ism you know is dreadfully exercised at
this p~rofane and heterodox idea lest the interest,
of virtue and modesty should suffer. But the
short experience of Iberia, confirmed by the long
experience of Oberlin and Antioch, goes to show,
that this system, so far from tending in the re-
hottest degree to RIGHTEOUSNESS, is the great pre-
ventiye Of such vice, and the great promotive OF
virtue. ! attended several of Professor Boyd's
classes in Greek, Latin and the English depart
ment, and observed with pleasure that the students,
although in many cases young men and women
seemed to forget entirely the fact of a difference
of sex. But there is a philosophy III this. The
passions daily in other walks of life and idleness.
But on the high fields of intellectual effort the
sexes come together as combatants, asking no
favors and giving none. While the amenities oil
human intercourse are cultivated where the
natural system is carried out, each regards al
the others rs mere students. 1t is amusing anC
instructive too, to see how chop-fallen a younl
man looks when he baulks at the blackboard anC
a young lady comes forward and goes through thu
demonstration to the quod erdt demonStrandum
He feels like anything else in the world thar
kissing the lips that have SO triumphantly exposed
his inferiority. No. knowledge, like the grea
God from whom it is an emanation. makes NJ
distinction in conferrlng its treasures; but Offer
them to all irrespective of sex, color, or condi
ton. And it is according to the nature of thing
that when intellect is gainingsstrength and expan
sion by study day after day, the passions mus,
retire into the shade. ! noticed at Ileria q number
of very gentcel colored youth among the students
Four Of these are the sons of a Southern gentle
man by several of his slave women. In view O
his death Le made a will emancipating oil hi
Slaves amounting to nearly two hundred and pro
yiding for his own children alluded to, by giving
them some thousands of money and a farm o
land each. On the event of his death however
his surviving relatives easily succeeded in break
ing the will, and by this iniquity all the slaves