Faculty Report on Student Anti-Slavery Society 1835

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the duties of the Instructors, & without essential injury to the improvement and future usefulness of the students.

And we have little doubt, that this will long be the judgement of all ^who are entrusted with the great interest of our literary & theological [deletion] seminaries.

In behalf of the Faculty, Leonard Woods

Theological Seminary, Andover, Feb 4: 1835

These transactions were followed by a very [??] state of things in the Seminary. There was diligence in study, freedom from strife, & the prevanlence of brotherly love & harmony. There was moreover an uncommon degree of sympathy for the slaves, & much fervent prayer for their present & ethical welfare.

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12/ This result however was far from being satisfactory to Mr Thompson & those others, who were engaged with him in advocating the cause of immediate emanciaption & who had hoped for some more active co operation from the Seminary in promoting their objects. Unwilling therefore that the matter should end thus, they determined to visit us again, & to make extraordinary efforts, - efforts of a bolder character, & of more certain efficacy. These efforts they began on the fourth of July, & continued them,as ^ we were [del] ^informed seventeen days in sucession. Mr George Thompson was the principal Lecture, & Rev. Amos A Phelps, & M. Garrison, his assistants. The two former, as ^we were ^told addressed themselves to their work, publicly & privately, with unmai

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kable diligence, & warmth of feeling, [deleted text]. M. Thompsons most conspicuous effort was made in his attack upon the transactions of the Seminary as published last February. Those transactions of ours disappointed his hopes, & proved to be no small trial to his sensibilities. His feelings & expressions on that occasion were said to be such, that one would hardly be willing to undertake to describe them. So far however as the members of the Seminary were concerned, the effort was a failure. The students who were present (and the number was large) even those who had taken the liveliest interest in his previous addresses, generally [deleted text] expressed a strong disapprobation of much that he uttered on that occations. It was Friday evening the close of his first weeks Labours, public

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notice having been given before of what he determined to do. He displayed not a little zeal to detract from the influence of the Instructors & Governors of these three Institutions, & to stimulate the numbers of the Seminary, & the youth in the Academies to go forward, & form anti Slavery - Socieities, whether their Instructors consented or not, & in defiance of their authority. This attempt to introduce disorder & insubordination among young men who were quietly pursuing Literary & theological studies, was something before unknown in the history of New England, & it was no ordinary mistake for any one to suppose, that an enlightened community would look upon it with indifference. The time will come, if it has not already come, - when the chief actors in

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this scene will wish to draw over their doings the veil of concealment. But what, it will be asked, was the effect of their labors? IT was this> A prevailing, & very promising attention to religion [deletions] was suddenly brought to an termination ^ an end; a number of inexperienced youth in one of the academies had their minds inflamed and preverted, & in consequence of this, pursued a couse of conduct, of which many of them have already repented, & which all sober men have regarded with ^pity & shame.

The wants which followed in the Seminary, were these. - On August 4th, near a fortnight after the abolition agents had left the plan, twenty seven members of the Seminary i.c four of the Senior class, one of the middles,

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