Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-13
(1'O be Coniinued.)
Eighth .9nnual Report Of the american Free
Produce association.

Produce association.
In the review of the last, as of previous
years, your committee find occasion to regret
the apathy which generally prevails respect
ing this important part Of anti-slavery labor,
but they think it more profitable to direct
their attention and yours, on this occasion,
to the encouraging signs Of the times which,
though perhaps STEW and far between" may
be distinctly observed. As the business of
the association is conducted chiefly by our
manufacturing committee, the details of its
operations will be found in their report
Your executive committee are happy to an
nouuce that their operations have been as
successful during the past year, and that the
present prospects Of the society are as fair, as
in previous years. They derive encourage
ment from the increasing demand for the pro-
duets of free labor, which surely denotes
some progress of correct principles or feel
ing. This progress has apparently been grea-
ter in the west than in the east, during the
last few years. From Ohio and Indiana cheer
ing accounts have been received of growing
interest in our cause, and of sacrifices of con-
v~enience and luxury made to principle, which
the success of the manufacturing department
of our association renders unnecessary here,
and which would not be made, excepting
where the seed of truth had taken deep root
in a rood soil. We rejoice in these encour-
aging facts, especially because adverse infu-
l-eaoas have heen at work in Ohio to check the
progress of its growth, and to blight the fruit
of its early promise.
In the East also, where lamentable apathy
relative to this subject pervades the a%nli-sla-
very ranks, our principles are not powerless.
Here and there they have sunk into the heart
and conscience of an individual and his daily
example is a light shining in a dark place.
Your committee hail with pleasure the eX-
istence of the Free Labor Association of
Friends, organized in this city within the past
year, hoping that it will prove a valuable CO.
adiutor in our work. They regard its forma-
ton as indicative of an increasing interest
in our principles, and, as such, highly encour-
aging.
In Great Britain, also, we perceive indica-
tons that those principles are at work in the
hearts of philanthropists, and have moved
them to the utterance of a faithful protest
against the recent action of their government
in opening the ports Of that kingdom for the
admission of slave-grown sugars. We sim
cerely unite with them in deploring this act
of the British government, whereby a new
impetus will be given to the slave trade, and
new vigor to the horrible system of slavery.
1t is computed that, in consequence of this
measure, 10000 or $4,000 tons of slave
grown sugars will be annually required TO
meet the increased demand in the British
markets. and that, at least, 100000 new
slaves must be obtained to prepare It for ex-
portation and to meet the wastes OF mortal
ity that will be occasioned by the severity of
the system under which they will be placed,
a large additional number Of Africans must
be imported, to Join the host of human beings
who are every year torn from their native
homes by the slave-traders, and compelled to
surrender their liberty to the tyrant task-mas-
tiers of Brazil and Cuba" Thus is England,
who expended twenty millions of money to
abolish slavery in her W colonies, offering
a bounty on the onslavement of $4,000 Airi-
cans! Thus is she, while keeping an expen-
: sive armed force on the coast of Africa, fol
the suppression of the slave trade, furnishing
at home the strongest inducement for the
continuance of the trade, directly promoting,
} by one act of Parliament, that which by an
other she seeks to destroy! The inconsis'
tency is the more gross, inasmuch as she as
, signs for the motives in the latter, the consid'
I, ~erations of Justice and philanthropy. Yef
} such is the inconsistency of those individual;
, who profess to abhor the system of slavery,
regarding it as inherently sinful, while they
daily feed and clothe themselves with lis
l fruits. Their lOordS say to the oppressor
, "Spoil not the poor, Cypress not the weak
%enslave not the image of God; 5" their loud
er-speaking conduct says, "Conunue to ex
tort that unrequited labor from your helpless
= victims, and we will pay you for its fruits
3 1t is to be hoped that those friends OF tn
slave in England, who have recorded thei
protest against the inconsistent course of thei
: government, will see to it that their table
| and wardrobes do not involve them in tn
Q same condemnation. lnasmuch as the chic
motive for slaveholding is pecuniary gain,
must be evident to any careful observer, tina
= the consumption of the products of slave la
: Dor is one of the main pillars Of the system
| 1t is true that there are other pillars, the re
' moval of which would doubtless destroy tn
monstrous ediiice, but Goes it become aboli
: t%ionists, while working with courageou
hearts and strong arms to hew down those
to be also strengthening this. Is not such
. course not only impolitic and unwise, bu
sinful2 If we demand in the name of justice