was the use of all intoxicating beverages discarded by faculty
and students but the use of tobacco as well was discouraged.

Within fifteen years after the founding of Oberlin, there were
women graduates who had something to say on numerous questions of
public interest. Especially was this true of the subject of
temperance. Intemperance was a vice peculiar to men. Women and
children were the chief sufferers, while men were the chief
sinners. It was important, therefore, that men should be reached.
In 1847 Lucy Stone, an Oberlin graduate, began to address public
audiences on the subject. At the same time Susan B. Anthony
appeared as a temperance lecturer. The manner of their reception
and the nature of their subject induced them to unite heartily in
the pending crusade for the equal rights of women. The three
causes thus became united in one.

Along with the crusade against slavery, intemperance, and women's
wrongs, arose a fourth, which was fundamentally connected with
the slavery question: Quakers and Southern and Western
abolitionists were ardently devoted to the interests of peace.
They would abolish slavery by peaceable means because they
believed the alternative was a terrible war. To escape an
impending war they were nerved to do and dare and to incur great
risks. New England abolitionists who labored in harmony with
those of the West and South were actuated by similar motives.
Sumner first gained public notice by a distinguished oration
against war. Garrison went farther: he was a professional
non-resistant, a root and branch opponent of both war and
slavery. John Brown was a fanatical antagonist of war until he
reached the conclusion that according to the Divine Will there