[Gutenberg 33962] • The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I

Excerpt from The History of Company C: Seventh Regiment, O. V. I

The History of Company 0 is properly connected with the history of Oberlin College, the Alma Mater of its organization. The majority of its members were proud to be known as the exponents of the generous, Christian principles, there so fearlessly uttered and so zealously inculcated. The founders of Oberlin were pledged to the general law of benevolence. All known forms of virtue were cheerfully adopted. Every system of wrong was deprecated.

Patriotism and the doctrine of anti-slavery very naturally found a place in the category of their principles. They seemed to be men, clothed and in their right mind, possessing at least the ordinary balance of moral character, without any design to establish an institution for the purpose of waging War against any particular system of iniquity to the exclusion of all the others. Missionary associations, temperance and anti-slavery societies, in short, all organizations designed to aid in improving and saving their fellow men, found fearless advocates in them. Under the stimulus of such principles they left their pleasant homes in New England for residences in an unfavorable place in a forest of Northen Ohio, to found a college that might prove a blessing to the broad lvest.

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