Coverage of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
and the Rescuers' Trial in
The Oberlin Evangelist, 1858-1859

Transcriptions by Anita Lock

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"The Slave Hunt"
September 29, 1858
 "The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case"
May 25, 1859
"The Wellington Rescue Case"
December 22, 1858
 "Progress of the Oberlin Rescue Case"
May 25, 1859
"A Re-Union"
January 19, 1859
"Why They are in Jail"
May 25, 1859
February 2, 1859
"Mass Meeting in Cleveland"
June 8, 1859
"Difficulties of Oppression"
February 2, 1859
"The Habeas-Corpus Case--Prisoners not Discharged"
June 8, 1859
"The Trial of the Thirty-Seven"
March 16, 1859
 "Our Responsibility For Oppression"
June 8, 1859
"The Trial of the Thirty-Seven"
April 13, 1859
"Lines Suggested by the Imprisonment of the 37"
June 8, 1859
"The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case"
April 27, 1859
"Ohio State Congregational Conference"
June 22, 1859
"The Bond of Preaching to the Free"
April 27, 1859
"Caesar and Christ; or the Higher Law"
June 22, 1859
"Cleveland Congregational Conference"
April 27, 1859
"Letter to the Ohio State Conference"
June 22, 1859
"Progress of the Oberlin Rescue Case"
May 11, 1859
"Reply . . . to Prof. Peck’s Letter"
July 6, 1859
"Anderson Jennings the Slaveholding Christian"
May 11, 1859
"Remarks . . . of the Ohio Congregational Conference"
July 6, 1859
"Statement Extraordinary"
May 11, 1859
"Nonsense of the No-Higher Law Doctrine"
July 13, 1859
"The Sin of Sending Back Fugitives from Slavery"
May 11, 1859
"The Last Days and Hours of the . . . Case"
July 13, 1859
"Oberlin College, May, 1859"
May 25, 1859
"We Live, Toil, Suffer and Die for . . . God’s Purposes"
July 13, 1859
"Speech of Charles H. Langston"
May 25, 1859
"We Live, Toil, Suffer and Die for . . . God’s Purposes" (cont.)
August 3, 1859
"Our Oberlin Friends in Jail"
May 25, 1859
"The Higher Law"
August 3, 1859
"The Fugitive Slave Act Unconstitutional and Void"
May 25, 1859
"Mr. Fitch’s speech to Sunday School children of Oberlin"
August 3, 1859
“Judge not that Ye be not Judged”
May 25, 1859