The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-06-06

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sdmit, In the case Of one who
profsssess 20 much.
have bee- perfectly astonished at what
my eyes have seen and ears have heard In
this place | II any one interested fears the
loyalty o. Obeflin, in her officers, to capital,
Shylock, their hearts may rest my word for
it. II could possibly believe il were the
sin Of ignorance could feel better, and for
give but Of this have not the least hope.
believe that the corner stone Of Oberiin TO-
day, is that very principle, which OF all other
forms or sin, God most hates, to wit: usury
and the encouragement Of the principle Of
competition, for these two are SIamese twins,
and like them inseparable, until death doth
part them, and it is, as believe, vastly i'm
portant that this truth should be understood
for the Lord is not on the side OF usury, com
petition, or OF oppression, in single one Of
his attributes.
Upon a usurlous and competition plat
form, lore Of the bonds representing our
debt, love Of them includes n love OF the
toll and sweat, and ignorance and ruin which
must needs exist under them, and upon
which they are built, for these things are one
and insepara5le. | say where such love
exists, there can be no real love for the
negro. IL 10 convenient to express il. In or
der TO cover up and mislead. The blatent
professions Of men, are Of little account.
Their real purposes are likely to be hid,
hence the necessity of peering behind the
curtain for their real purposes, If you would
understand them Ii il impossible therefore
that Oberiin should be q rich friend Of the
negro, while her corner stone, yea her entire
wall and gates, are usury and competition.
Before Obsrlin assaulted freemAsonry, she
should bsvs 'ast out Of Der own eye the beam
that was in it. This she neglected to do, a.
think There is, | know, q lower deep
than this principle Of competition, for COM
petition itself is q check upon something
worse, still lower, which il unstrained sell
Hshness Competition itself is the great
good, as we may say, in one sense Of society,
as it is. 1t certainly may be reckoned as
one Of the greatest goods, where allegiance
TO Jehovah is denied.
The principle Of cooperation for the good
of mankind and being in general universal
cooperation with God, for the good Of man
and Of oil existances, is the true and only
true principle.
We came cut here into dense forest and
mudhole (when there was water sufficient tc
render Ii Of the consisteuce Of mortar,l tC
establish . manual labor ''Oollegiats Insti-
tute," and Prof. finney came along and 90.
tablIshed himself, really, il not nominally, nj
the head Of our enterprise. He has In real
| ity been our centre head, from his advent
among US. Sent here by the capitalists Of
New York CITY, a. has been shrewdly affirm
ed BY one, and surely, In this instance, 4
has happened after the manner Of the ole
wild goose which returned in the fall to heI
owner, bringing all her goslins. The CAPT
talists of that day understood their man, fal
better than we did. They understood whai
they were about, most assuredly.
| recolIect well the character Of tn
prayers that were offered in our midst o.
that time, while and after our decision wa
pending. They struck me as strange ct th
time, but now I see they foreshadow tb
coming man. It must have heen spirit In
huence adm onishej US, for our principle o
manual labor support has been wrecked en-
tirely, aud why should it not be under suci
a leader? positively do not recollect 0
ever having seen ex- President PInney q
work with his hands.
Is it any wonder that our manual labor de-
partment should prove perfect failure un
der such leader :
Certain names, among our professors, de
serve norable mention here in this con
nection, such as Professors Dascombe an
Cowles, for example. They, | believe, hav
worked and labored with a will.
Understand me believe the time ha
fully come when the good Of the nation do
mands that Uberlin be fully expressed
Y and understood. She p-cfesses to believ
that the good of the ch urch and Of the stat
demands an expose Of freemasonry, and per
haps it does, but the beam, IL there Is one
must first BE- cast out OF her own eyes, &C
eording TO scripture.
Let ID be noted, that we Of the old scboc
have somewhat against these Of the new, Q
Finney school, or faction. For instance, i
the first place, in the language Of politician
J they beheaded both our founders; this wa
su efectually done that they both fec thei
wort left it, literally, in person, but strang
70 say, moi in purse, in case Of the one {
them now living. His purse renamed pre-
sent, altnoSSh in person he was driven GU
far away, and almost pennyless. His purs
influence remained, not for any special r.
gard be had towards OK for our prosecutors
but for the full Development Of her idea 9
female arr male joint education.
This act Of decapitation was preceded, 9
all similar acts are, by innumerable outra
ges against Us, the righttul professors Q
0berlin. II was our work our possess ioI
and il we had been permitted, or had prose
cuted it, on our oica line, there would hay
been no slave holders rebellion, for GU
work Of Christianiz alton would have been 8
far advanced at the time, that there coul
have been none. II would have been impoi
sible. Our plan was to swarm, as ii were
after the manner OF bees not infested wit
moth. We intended thus to fill the land, a
by geometrical progression. Each colonia
child, SC TO speak, was to b come O fathe
in turn, as soon as puberty was reached, AN
thus we were to proceed in the education an
in the evaagelization Of our la !, dOtting i
all over with what we termed ''Collsglat
Institutes" but the devil saw our intent an
prospects, and instituted means to defeat us
and here we are, nation ruined hop
not past redemption we shall see, bat Ger
tain it is, that to-day, Oberlin is in the val
among the Shylocks, our only really danger
Gus enemies to liberty.
7 The wish to criminate OberIin is far from
me; but when I soc her entirely prostrat
before mammon, and ut the same time loud
est in her professions Of supreme devotion
to God, to hold my peace longer would be
SIP and crime against Heaven and humanity
u. M. LEONARD.
FROM ILLINOIS.