Year: 1860

And now for the results of the withdrawal Tht


theological class Of l833-34 had numbered forty
four days after Commencement, 1884, only TIVE


had re-cntered. The literary class during tht
same period had numbered sixty, of which only
five had re-entored Sixty young men arrived t,
enter but eight Of them refused to after they had


learned the course Of the government. OF The
students who withdrew, the majority went off into
the Wilderness to Oberlin College, then just estab
lshod on the principle Of perfect equality of sex
and cobra principle which it maintains to thi,
day. Their accession gave great impetus to the
college, and to it we are indebted, in no small de-
gree, for the continued existence, prosperity aud
benefits Of that noble institution Of learning.


Mr. Weld accepted an appointment Of the Amer.
lean Anti-Slavery Society as agent for Ohio, at a
salary halfas large as was offered him from anoth
or quarter and the historian of America, who
shall write after slavery is no moro, will record
his speeches, lectures and writings among the
most effective instrumentalties 10 the overthrow
of that abominable system. Itis worth reInarkng
that Mr.. Bailey, late editor of the National Era
is said to have had his attention first called to the
subject Of Anti Slavery by the action of NJ. Weld
and his fellow students.


Lane Seminary, it is hardly necessary 70 add
disappointed the hopes of its founders; and not
least of its President, who ceased his connections
with It somewhere about the year 1912. It's sixth
annual report gave the whole number Of students
as thirty while the officers numbered tw0nty-eighl!
We believe it still exists, though we think that
many of our readers will hear of it for the first
time but if there is any one who does not know
of the existence of Oberln he is indeed ill-posed
in the progress of education in America.


Our task is nearly ended, The tale whose sim,
pie recital we have given needs no ornament Of
ours to give it weight 1t carries its own moral,
and cannot too often be repeated, 1t particularly
addresses itself to u.s. for its heroes students
like ourselves. Tho question of slavery is by no
means settled yet. Within these walls. it is true,
VIC are not hampered as were the students whose
history we have been considering. The faculty
of Harvard College are wiser than the Faculty Of
LNno Seminary in 1884 but it is only because
they have had tho experience of thirty years to
make them SO. For the change in public sonti-
ment which has taken place within that period,
which is visible in The Church. the pulpit, and the
press is visible in Harvard College also. Because
OF this change, we have seen tho first authoress
of tho century, the daughter Of President Beech
or and the wife of Professor Stowe, rise to her
high position through an antislavory novel and
the pastor ofplymou;h Church can draw no greater
audience than when he is announced to speak on
the subject of slavery.


We live in comparatively tranquil times. The
prejudice against color is fast dying out the mob
law is no more triumphant, at least in the North I;
we arc free to think, to speak. and to write
These arc incstimablo privileges. Let us not for
get as We enjoy them, those students OF Lane
Seminary who helped secure them to us, by bray
ing that prejudice and by suffering from that mob
law.