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Communications: Visit To Oberlin: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Day
22
Month
September
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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r to Ohio, I have thought your readers t be interested in some biief rcmarks on ers and things that feil under mv observaWe made our exit frotu tliè Wolvrrine 2eon e, (hrough the cotton wood swamp t ifield. The swamp was quite dry, but your ridges of the Corduroy stood nul in bolii . ifaocj in most 'admirable üsorder,1 . ing a most deeirabh ride for a fummpre, to one who wou'd have his bilt stirrrd. lore senses thati one. To the frequent y'"' lafnations of my comnanion. both Iiiuiland p referring tn tite horrors of the pasFage. )o!ly replied by qr.otircg the dog?rpl of the - lernian, tndo in refeience to the oM Mili' road thro'igh the highlands of . [ad yon seen this road before it was mnde% anc u wonld ho'd up your harida and ble Gen. Wade. r i Stal [ snppoee we are to bl"ss some Oenera! o was built for wtdi& if his name was nolnat. for our prosent Jine of inarch tnrourt salmost impassable swsmp. All things -.- ist have an end. So onr passage, thotiah seemed inrerininab!e,catn?toa close without ything more serious thnn a slipln fracture our vehicle and a slight rnfflm? of onr . Tipers. The bilt, thoiigh irW u;j, did .-■ t run over. One mile of tliis Kw(!mp is nw ■ rnpiked, and covered vith chnrcoal- fa nga verypleasant rondwand the rest is to :. May the kind Gcnii that watch övrr - avellers haaien Jt on! of At VVhiteforfl we encountered a nvisnnce in ie shape of a Military parnde; reinmd nS us e were in another State and on the "deba T( bleiand''- in the contpst for whch all the gl jrrors of the ToWo War were enacted. ,ejl It was an Oflker's Drill, nnd tliere were )O( enerale, Colonels, Majors, Captains, etc. in ba 1 the "pride, pomp, and circntnstance of W( lo.-iotis war' The net?liinwr sleed- th? Lf littering atecl nnd the ♦'vilbinou gn.unckini rthe w"ry heckcd fifcf thfi fiüpwg Pllltne fy -Ihefitar spangled banner, 6to. kc. "far iff leir coming shcne," and our h-rsc, alJ unused c, war, becarfie reeliVe end thrnu'ehcd us witli G 'Stamptde on a small f ca Ie. Bwt the din er bell rang and colled the héroes front the R jnted field to dUcuss the luudlord's chickens nd watermelons. But not to be tedioup- we reached Oberlin v -the place of destinntion- after three days' yding withödt incident tvorthy of rpcord. Tliia plnccond tho instituí ion here, wre - ilnntln.g monument, illustrative of tbe trutli t hnt God tf ill blees right oction in favor of ighteousnees nd the rijjhts of man. i in ttoWiè ft plce of fome 1,500 inhabiiniits, stiidehta and Twelve years ag it ws a .vilderoesw. At fiát litó tbe Rev. í. J. Shipherd- whó died at Olivet in Michigan ast year- a dan of prnyer and rent foith- i nme in hers to (bond an institntlon. An rom a email beginnihg; blessed by the proyra and wateied by tlie tears of the pinus - vithouf furidB,- b'ut ëiista hfed by the thnrities )f the bensficènf j it Has reachtd itá pfjéilt j;ate. With 000 sludenls in its scveralpccuii rny or uor-rnn is me niga y cultivotHil hfrp, and the doctrino 1 i$ no acceptublf const-crrtlion to God e are consecra ttd to Ilumanily. he oppresspd have ever found art nd the Slaveholdrr hnve often Baid mipht as well iinderinke lo get a il of heil as to get a filave out of llere the colored man and w'orhan ;ey nf knoivlrdgeaml enter the tfÜT encp. and enjoy thn opporttmlty of4 l before o gninsayin? world, advon- , their puwerá witli the white.- ■ ,- iiud a brottier and a friend in all t them. is mv heart more eeilv$t:rred at the of Slnvery thnn when contcmpialinifmnn nut yrsterday a elave,rnisei In rit radation, and now in the posfC-sion and 3 of nll the snhüm? nttribmea of Hu, rivalling n manv iistnnres, in tha tna' conflict thosp'w-ho had nes'er beenr I. fïov Ion? before our Inrld shnll bo- c'nntinuons Oberlin in this respect!- onij shnll trranV inhiunnnity to rhati counllo8s thotisnnds muurn! spirit of the instituHnn wa vividly ed in tlie sreechea of the studen's n nthly ornloricul e.xercises and at ihe ncement. he Mont ly Exercises. ono (ppccfi by itehen wn8 n mnpterly prpspntaiio!) of itas annpxation FchempanJ Ihe posilion Liberty party in refrenco to it. Tha called forth bursts of opplouse, ■ thougli py lo rule. Tbero were ao tnnny ?rs prrsent that the Professor coultl (train the ouiburft. I vil try to give ijstance of one sentence in my own löïl- . Thp b ilorice of power brin,? in tha nf the Lilprly party, they ore plnced in l (infortiuiate dilrmmn. Novv they ara ed by the WWjf vviili annexntion, Var its corif' qupnt horfra. Ilud the Liberty uni'ed with the Whijrs, and eíccied they wmild, wi:li more reuson, havo chargfed wih all the mal-ndminislrntioiï lat pnrty - Annptntion- Nntionol Bank or whnt not. Henee we poor Liberty - no motter whnt we do, must in stimition of the pro-slnvitos, thn sins of 1- or the niqtiities of Êoelzebüb. 6ut i bp siire we desprve it not and it nl&ttfirá with whot we ore charged." Yonrs, foc. J. M. 0. )erltn, Aujt. 25, 1845.

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Signal of Liberty
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