The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-01-15
FROM OHIO.
OBERLIS, o., Dec. %, 1878.
To the Editor Of the WoRKNsAAS'sA ADVOCATE.
Concluded fIom last week.

OBERLIS, O., Dec. %. 1878.
To the Editor Of the ADVOCATE.
Concluded fIoIn last week.
The co-education of the sexes was a
principle with US, from the first, and Ober-
lin that was, may justly claim the VIC
tory, when it is now, as we fondly antici-
pated it will be, and womans equality will
everywhere be acknowledged, In spite of
Oberlin's present opposition to granting
woman the elective franchise, - this great
conception and work Of p. p. Stewart,
peculiarly his. This fact Of sex eo-edu-
cation, gave our enemy his text and ad
vantage, and every bawdy story was in
vented under it apparently that could be.
Again, We claim to have been the father
Of Grahamism in Oberlin, importing it
when we came, our Graham bread or cakes
being the FIRST seen on this ground. From
this act, it Was reported that Oberln sub
sisted on bran, and that the tons hauled
from Elyria we're for human food, and so
on, to the end of the chapter. However
absurd and foolish g falsehood this may
appear, how, it was . serious matter to
US then, to hear ali conceivable lies in
vel ted against US, and in such variety az
to suit all classes Of minds, from the least
to the most credulous. Children could
be made to believe, perhaps, that all these
tons Of bran were for the Oberlinites to
eat, and children may be made to annoy
and peruecute as well a. their fathers and
mothers, and made to stare at US in aston
ishment as we passed, and use their
tongues againt US. But TO return. We do
not know that any other individual was
put through the solemn covenant ordeal,
as we we're. Father Shipherd did more
than he knew. God knew the material
his servant was dealing with, as he did not,
an honest soul at least, we trust, like that
of Caleb the son of. Jephunneh of old. We
we're not desired, at that time, 9 mere
ghost in appearance. and it was one object
with the father to dissuade US; while God
intended to call and consecrste US 70 this
very work Of Oberlin's redemption. Ship
herd, therefore made the way appear to
US rugged and forbidding as he could,
hoping doubtless, to turn us from our pur-
pose They wanted live men and not
skeletons to wrestle with the forest, but
there was these terms, and we could not
be rejected if we fully complied. Who
could blame Father $. if he went by sight
in the matterl His manner, at the time,
az we look back upon it, indicates all we
suggest, and he obtained full consecra
ton Of US without mental reservation, and
a conservation for life, God assisting
1t is q singular circumstance, supposins
Gods hand is not in it, that We have out
lived or outstayed, so far as this ground il
concerned, all those men then here anC
who had marked us, as the one TO inaugu
rate and consecrate our first cemetery, anC
even the cemetery itself; disused long sine
for purposes of burial, and most Of tn,
corpses removed to the new cemetery.
appears strange, on any other supposition
than that Gods hand was in it, and tha
he has work for uSi
May God defend the greenbsck sgains
Oberlinl 7 Give as to zee this victory or,
we die, and if there be no more work OF
earth for Us, we shall then be ready t.
depart. Without this, Oberlin's work il
the Anti Slavery cause will prove . curse
this being but . continuation, to consum
nation, of that good begun work. W,
will never consent to have.Oberlin at righ
about facs, and 6ght with the deadlies
foes of unrighteousness, for the inaugura
tion and perpetual reign Of usury, in al
our coasts, for all time, for this it was, il
grossest form, and undisguised, the slave
masters contended for. The Nationa
bank and its appointments and accessories
are we know, q much more refined instru
ment Of robbery and human torture thar
the slave drivers whip. 1t does not man
gle the Aesh Of its victims, ~ slavery did
it ID true, but neither have the banks any
responsibility for the care Of the wretchel