Faculty Report on Student Anti-Slavery Society 1835

We have sincerely endeavored to do what will promote the highest good of ^the beloved Seminary, whose interests are committed to our care & those for whose prosperity we are willing to spend & be spent.

It is, gentlemen, our earnest wish & prayer that the Lord would guide you in your studies & fill you with the fruits of his spirit, & thus prepare you for distinguished usefulness in that holy calling, in which you expect ere long to engage.

Theological seminary Andover, Aug. 15th 1835

Leonard Woods Moses Stuart Tho H. Atkinson Ralph Emerson

After this reply was communicated, those who have wished to form a society pursued a course honorable to themselves & gratifying to all the friends of the Seminary. They at once agreed to acquiesce in the decision of the faculty; & ths the whole matter quietly subsided.

We cannot but ^acknowledge our special obligations to God that he has dealt so graciously with this Seminary & has now again so ordered things in his providence that the evils which have so frequently resulted from agitation of such a subject have ot come upon us. And we most [?] wish that like blessing may be granted to all the literary & religious institutions in our land. Respectfully submitted;-- in behalf of the faculty Theological Seminary Andover, Sep 1, 1835 Leonard Woods

Sec Postscript.

P.S. We submit to your consideration the expediency of making a law,-- that no society shall be formed or continued in the Seminary, & no student belong to any society in this place, without the approbation of the Faculty;-- & also, that the ublic exercises of every society in the seminary shall be under the supervision of the Faculty.

The faculty request

Report of the Faculty on the proceedings respecting antislavery Sep. 1. 1835