Editing Lane Seminary (section)

===The "Lane Rebels" resign===
On October 21, most of the students resigned,<ref name=Wooster>{{cite book|chapter=The Lane Rebels Dismissions|title=Cause for Freedom|first=Maddie|last=Smith|chapter-url=http://www.woosterdigital.org/causeforfreedom/exhibits/show/lane_rebels_dismissions/lane_rebels_dismissions|access-date=July 15, 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728221951/http://www.woosterdigital.org/causeforfreedom/exhibits/show/lane_rebels_dismissions/lane_rebels_dismissions|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Dumond>{{cite book
|title=Antislavery; the crusade for freedom in America
|last=Dumond
|first=Dwight Lowell
|year=1961
|oclc=1014527218
|location=[[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]
|publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]
|url=https://archive.org/details/antislaverycrusa00dumo/page/n13}}</ref>{{rp|183}} as did trustee [[Asa Mahan]] (another member of Finney's contingent). (Technically, they requested dismissal from the school, which was granted.) In December they published a [[pamphlet]] of 28 pages, published anonymously but written by Weld,<ref name=Abzug/>{{rp|120}}<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|135}} on "the reasons which induced the students of Lane Seminary, to dissolve their connection with that institution."<ref name=Statement>{{cite book|title=A statement of the reasons which induced the students of Lane Seminary, to dissolve their connection with that institution|date=December 15, 1834|url=https://archive.org/details/ASPC0001868700|location=Cincinnati}}</ref> The pamphlet received national attention, as it was reprinted in full in ''The Liberator''.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Defence of the students
|newspaper=[[The Liberator (newspaper)|The Liberator]]
|location=Boston, Massachusetts
|date=January 10, 1835
|pages=1
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39210988/the_liberator/
|via=[[newspapers.com]]
|access-date=November 18, 2019
|archive-date=July 17, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717103648/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39210988/the-liberator/
|url-status=live
}} Page 2 is at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39211019/the_liberator/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517123903/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39211019/the-liberator/ |date=May 17, 2022 }}.</ref>

Hostile press reports turned this incorrectly into the expulsion of the students, "in consequence of the dangerous principles they held in relation to slavery."<ref>{{cite news
|title=Incendiarism (pt. 2 of 2)
|newspaper=[[Norwalk Reflector|Huron Reflector]] ([[Norwalk, Ohio]])
|date=1 Sep 1835
|page=2
|via=[[newspapers.com]]
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41393914/on-amos-dresser-2-of-2/
|access-date=January 18, 2022
|archive-date=January 18, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118110230/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41393914/on-amos-dresser-2-of-2/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

The Rebels were a loosely defined group, and different sources give different names and figures. The ''Statement'' had 51 signatures, but it adds that "several of our brethren, who coincide with us in sentiment, are not able to affix their names to this document, in consequence of being several hundred miles from the Seminary."<ref name=Statement/>{{rp|28}} According to Lane, there were 40, including the entirety of Lane's first class, the class of 1836 (which began in 1833).<ref>{{cite book
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogue00lane/page/9 9]–12
|title=General Catalogue of Lane Theological Seminary, 1828-1881
|publisher=Lane Theological Seminary
|year=1881
|url=https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogue00lane}}</ref> There were also prospective students who declined to enroll.<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|130}} Lawrence Lesick, author of the only book on the Lane Rebels, gives a figure of 75, but 19 more had left before the trustees took action, and only 8 students, out of 103, remained at Lane at the beginning of the next term.<ref name=Lesick>{{cite book|title=The Lane rebels : evangelicalism and antislavery in antebellum America
|last=Lesick|first=Lawrence Thomas|year=1980
|location=Metuchen, New Jersey
|url=https://archive.org/details/lanerebelsevange00lesi
|publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]]|isbn=9780810813724}}</ref>{{rp|131, 157–158}} According to Oberlin, 32 of them enrolled,<ref>{{cite web
|title=Lane Rebels Who Came to Oberlin
|publisher=Oberlin College
|access-date=November 5, 2019
|url=http://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/RebelTable.html
|archive-date=February 10, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210220329/http://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/RebelTable.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=2017|title=The Lane Rebels Gallery|url=https://sanctuary.oberlincollegelibrary.org/exhibits/show/the-lane-rebels/the-lane-rebels-gallery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210175253/ps://sanctuary.oberlincollegelibrary.org/exhibits/show/the-lane-rebels/the-lane-rebels-gallery|archive-date=2020-02-10|access-date=July 19, 2019|publisher=Oberlin College Libraries}}</ref> although some others who enrolled at the same time, though not students at Lane, are considered part of the Rebels.<ref name=Wooster/> A few enrolled at other schools, such as [[Auburn Theological Seminary]].

Weld and some other student leaders at Lane — [[William T. Allan]], Weld's collaborator and president of Lane's new anti-slavery society; [[James A. Thome]], a prominent speaker during the debates;<ref name=Letter/> and [[Henry B. Stanton]]<ref name=Letter/> — had been threatened with expulsion.<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|129}} Weld did not withdraw until the motion to expel him, which would have been nationally publicized, had been defeated.<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|130}}