The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-01-29
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OBEKLiN, O., Jan. u, 1878

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10 the Editor Of the woEkNoAASs ADvocATE
FACTS AND INCIDENTS.
Verify, God seeth not as man seeth.
The impression made on our mind, by
that solemn hour when we sIgned the
Oberhn Covenant, is one of the Ihost vivid
We have. The white oak, king Of our for
est; the white wood or tulip tree being
queen, we're relgning there III all their
pristine glory and majesty, and lands but
81. 90 per acre, i. fact, fur one dollar Of
the two fifty We weIs required to pay,
was a compulsory a, naJI "a u the Collie
giate Institute for educational purposes.
Such lands for Une dollar and nifty cents
per acre, did awaken and had awakened
al. the latent cupldIty IN our souls We
Nere Just from New Haven, Ct., let II he
remembered where lands, lumber and
wood we're dear Tie PROSTATE oak where
We knelt, VAS one Of the most majestic
pointing westward, upon a slope Of ground
little north 81 our grlst mill, on Water
street, possibly on the very line of College
street, a little east Of Wafer, Oh that slope,
10 the west The day was fair and beau
tiful, and favored the scene. We can see
the old Father now IN our mind eye, rs
he was there talking and working, at the
slave monarch, for he did not suspend
work, but for moment, to grasp our
hand, we think, until we were ready t"
kneel and the act was consecrated by
most earnest and solemn conservatory and
dedicatory prayer, ON the part Of both of
US, recorded in heaven. Before the Fa
ther, in that living skeleton, scarcely able
to stand, as it were, for weakness, and
wearing heavy camlet cloak, for warmth,
in August, stood, if not the future saviour
and redeemer Of Oberlin, the would-be
such, at least, and the dogged defender Of
her solemn covenant, whom nobody or
power has been able as yet, 70 drive or
draw from duty, with heart and hand
against any and every one going astray,
high or low, rich or poor Can this be
denied in any particular
ObeIin, from the day If her birth. has
tended t. hackslide continually, from her
hi.h aud glorious standard, aud who has
blocked her wheels, if W. have not. or
Who, ia other words, a. made her the
tr ,uble, as she would be likely To express
it, that We have. Have We not caused her
more than all besides, aud in return en-
dured any amount Of cold shoulder, ne
gleet, kicking, i. e. persecution therefor
Would not be follower Of men. anyhow,
and as Caleb the son Of Jephunneh, and
Joshua the son of Nun, were permitted to
enter and occupy the promised land, SO we,
!. &. self and H. A. p, who stood up in
defence Of the anti slavery cause here
in its darkest hour, are permitted TO live
fallen in the wilderness, and scattered, we
know not where or whittier. Il was and
is our duty, we claim, to neglect and do,
as that covenant required, ourselves, and
also to guard our brethren, and watch over
others, and the place also, to see that all
perform their covenant obligations, for
this is consecrated ground, and ouf insi
tutions are sacred, and subject TO said
covenant We are bound by it, and Gods
word behind it, to have as perfect COM
munity Of interest as ii we had q commiun-
ity of property, etc, and to these cove
enant obligations our almost unprecedent-
ed prosperity. in this everlasting mudhoie,
Is due. Il may be said, perhaps, that
some among us in high station, never put
their hand to the covenant, but if they did
not, the more is tho shame ii they sneaked
in, in that way, ON the sly, making no OBJ
jecti"ns or criticisms. The cuckoo 10 re-
markable. We believe, for depositing her
eggs in the nests of other birds, and bur-
dening them with the rearing of their
young, and this is virtually what has been
done by u.s. Had We not cosenanted, and
legally obligated ourselves to be, and for
ever remain manual tabor instit1tioh,