Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29
A DISTRESSED STAKEHOLDER.

Our readers will fin6 in the extract from Wen
dell Phillips speech in anther column a reference
to the hopeful state of interest on the question of
freedom in Yale College. All abolitionists will of.
course rejoice with Mr.. p. at this favorable omen.
But while abolitionists rejoice Shareholders are fill
ed with tribulation at the fact. Ono slaveholding
graduate gives vent TO his grief and trials in the
columns of the Richmond Enquirer. lie says:
graduated at Yale College in lS47 and, in ac-
%cordance with a time honored custom, and one
mich does honor to human nature, | recently UNI
dertook q long and tntiguing journey, with great
inconvenience to myself in regard to my peculiarly
matters, and when in the enjoyment Of but feeble
health, from Tennessee to New Haven, there to
meet my classmates after an absence of ten years,
and to renew friendships contracted in the spring
time OF my life, which can never be effaced from
my memory, and which, in my case, are certainlys
warmer than those contracted at any subsequent
period. L have been looking forward to this meet
ing with pleasing antioipations, for years, and had
determined, If possibly could, to be present.
Judge then OF my deep regret, modification and
disgust, when on my arrival at New Haven, | learn
ed that charles Sumner had been invited to deliver
an Grafton nominally before the Phil Beta Kappa
Society, but in reality, before the public at large,
and that upon his declension, Wendell Phillips had
been invited, and had accepted. presume there
is no doubt that the faculty of Yale could have
prevented this but they not only failed to do that,
u So I'll u > L um aware, never uttered one NOru
in opposition to it. | am informed that it was
done principally through the fundamentally of,
the Rev. Mr.. DuttOn, pastor of the NoI!h Church..
rendered famous both himself and his Church, by
the Sharpe's rifle meeting.
In addition to this, on the night succeeding the
day on which Wendell Phillips Grafton was deliv-
ered, at a class supper partaken of by my class, to
which President Woolsey was invited as a special
compliment, in consequence of ours being the first
which graduated after he was made President, he
President Woolsey) even, on such an occasion as
that, could not refraid from ex pressing his hostility
TO southern slavery, lie said, that although he
was a conservative, yet he must acknowledge that
he was an anti-slavery man, and that having been
leo recently in the performance of his duties as an
instructor TO examine the history of the declineiof
the Roman Empire, he was satisfied, from the dire
tui effects OF slavery he had there seen, that in flu
ture he would be moro anti-slavery still. Not
withstanding he said that he did not suffer this sub
Ject to be introduced in College. yetit seems strange
that lac could Danish it from College, and could NOS
keep silent on such an occasion as that, and that.
too, when every one seemed DESTROYS of avoiding
that and all other subjects that could possibly rufile
the overfowing feelings Of joy naturally engender-
ed by the meeting of friends after ten years abb
sence. Not the slightest allusion to slavery was
made during the whole evening by any one else.-
AS Tor myself, | was afraid 20 mention the subject
at all, for fear that | should discover that some Of
my classmates were Black Republicans, and that
the discovery would alter my feelings towards
them.
Yale cannot be otherwise than national, without
insult to her Southern graduates. Had she no
Southern Graduates the case would be different,
but she has educated us of the South, when We
were Shareholders, as well as now, and she has no
right to cast us off to say to US: "My graduates
North of Mason and Dixon's line are my children,
but you, South of that line, have brought disgrace
on me by holding slaves you are not my children,
| know you not"
We shall now be compelled, in self defence, to
do that which we ought to have done long ago, ed.
ucate our sons exclusively at Southern Colleges !;
and if the parents of the few Southern students
who are now at Yale, can suffer them to remain
there now, they have different notions from myself
of what is due to self.respect.
TENNESSEE.