The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-13

1--WE do not hold ourselves responsible for any opll
ion expressed BY our Correspondence


OBERLIN, o., Nov. q 1875 !
10 tne Editor Of the WoRENsMAEs ADVOCATE
You will understand we are not an
enemy OF Oberlin, but of her iniquities
her crimes against humanity her pressing
God lnso the service Of the devil We
are not among those who would befoul our
own nest without cause. The life of the
nation is at stake, and is bound up in the
perfected interconvertible greenback, and
every blow aimed at it is a blow at the
very heart and soul Of liberty, and it has,
In our belief, no more bitter or dangerous
enemy to-day than Oberlin. 1t would
not surprise us to know that she con-
trolled one hundred and fifty thousand
votes In Ohio in the late election. More
over, through officers and teachers who have
gone out from here, by political wire
pulling, she is enabled to CONTROL the col
! ored vote throughout the nation Are
not Prof. Geo. E. Whipple, j. NJ Lang
ston, Esq, E. M. Cravath, and host of
lesser lights among her sons Ostensibly
she is engaged in religion, but really her
work is political-not political science, or
truth, by any means, but political slang,
lies, misrepresentation, false promises,
ignoring entirely the platforms of the
Z" National Industrial Congress" and Of
the Independent party" the source of the
interconvertible greenback, and contend
ing as if it originated with the Democratic
party of the present, which is as far from
truth as light from darkness. We have no
controversy with the Oberlin that was,
whose covenant we revere and cherish,
and whose best exponents, perhaps, ire
p. p. Stewart and wife, of Troy, New
York, and the real founders of Oberlin, in
conjunction with j. j. Shepherd 1t is
the inventor Of stoves we allude to. If
permission is granted, said covenant shall
appear in this paper, and it will be seen IN
the light of it that rank conservatism
which rules the place at present has no
right here, at least which any one is bound
in the least to respect. Oberlin belongs
to reformers of right, and must be re-
covered and caused again to send forth
healing influences for the nations.
We claim.to be the Godfather of Ober
lin, and regularly and most solemnly or
dained to our work and to the defense o.
her covenant and principles, and may at ;
future time narrate how it was done
Moreover, it is believed there is not
male, and but one, or possibly two females
within the bounds of our corporation VIII,
were here when we arrived the last o
August or first of September, 1884, anC
Oberlin has been our home from that da,
to this. We have been absent from he
but temporarily. Moreover. we were tn
first to propose the co-education of tn
white and colored races at present prac
ticed here II was thing unthought o
before at the time of our urging it, YER
soon after our arrival 1t being the frs
important business we attended t., "
both labored and prayed, and God b
praised forever for hearing us and so sic
nally answering us then, when our faitl
was so weak, comparatively. We may ais
give this narration at some future time
Our labors and prayers are now for tn
perfected inteIconvertible greenback, an,
have been since February, 1862, as "
can prove by circular bearing the abov
date. We know not then that we had an
companions in labor in the cause Tn
name of Edward Kellogg had not reache,
, us. Wo to whatever individual or powe
that dares assail the perfected greenback
for it is freighted with the liberties Of thi
nation Lot only, but of the earth as dis
cussion has revealed. The people, no
banks or corporate bodies Of any sort D
description, can have the power Of issuin
currency or paper money, and no govern
ment under the whole heavens has tn
right to rob its people Of this favor, for
is natural right and inalienable, an
ranks with air and water and sunlight
} Let him or that power be anathema mara
natha who would remove this right, an,
!, may all its enemies fall before it Amel
and amen L.