Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...relations with Mr. F. continued pleasant, and I regarded Mr. Weston as one of my most intimate friends. He was a student, it is true, but several years my senior; had been for some time one of our New England ministers; and was considered as a denominational man. I saw that his firmness was small, and hence, that he was easily influenced; but I regarded him as strictly honest, and from the circumstances of his education thus far, believed that he would make an able advocate of our interests as a people. I knew him to be an intimate friend of Prof. Holmes. He called frequently at my study. I gave him my confidence. We talked often and freely about College affairs, and the religious and educational interests of our denomination; I was hardly more intimate with any friend. Mr. Weston graduated one year since, just as the College property was assigned, and the Institution severed from its denominational control by Mr. Mann and friends. The College was no longer to be what its founders had intended it should be. It was to be placed on what Mr. Mann calls a " thoroughly liberal basis," in the hands of " new friends." Many of our leading men, some of whom live in New York, New England, and states distant from Ohio, now regarded Antioch as lost to us as a people forever, unless we could raise money, buy back, and then control the College. Indeed, some of our most prominent ministers told me that this would be impossible so long as Horace Mann remained; but if he, his relatives and pets would leave the Institution, our churches would very quickly raise money sufficient to pay off every cent of the indebtedness. Thus matters stood when Mr. Weston was invited to act as an instructor in Mr. Mann's temporary school for one year; and when he had good reason,...
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