Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03
TO THE ABOLITTONISTS OF THE.
WEST.

WEST.
Belovsd friends and .(ehov MJorer8 in The
cause IF emancipation. We are constrained
to address you, because we feel the need of
your encouragement and support-because
we know that without your aid and faithful
cooperation our efforts in this cause will be
comparatively inefficient. AT no period ia
the history of the anti-slavery enterprise,
has there been so great a demand for prompt
and ener- 4tic action as At the present-never
have the aggressions Of the slave power been
50 Palpable-never has it required SO great a
degree of moral courage to resist its demands.
The doctrine which the Western Anti-Slave-
ry Society now advocates, and which grows
out of Z new application Of an old principle,
we regard as a doctrine which will open the
prison doors, and set free the enslayed.
This Society has in years past done COM
Paratiyeiy little, although there were many
in lis ranks who maintained their integrity
and were ever true to principle, but now,
that which was in the chrysalis, has assumed
IA new form ard a new name-ihe change
progressed gradually, but is at length CON
summated, and the Western Anti-Slayefy
Society occupies, to-day, a far nobler and
tIuer position than the Ohio American Socie-
ty ever did. Anti-Siavery is progressive in
its character-the duties Of to-day are differ.
ent from those Of yesterday, and we would
not reproach those who labored in years past,
and walked according to the ligh. they had,
but would rather rejoice that they were faith
full then, and that faithfulness has enabled
them to perceive, and strengthened them n
fulfill the duties Of the present. We feel
assured that by the advocacy of the loclrlua
Of No Union with Slaveholders,' we shalt
possess a power over the moral sentiment Of
the community which we mover had before.
This doctrine places the cause Of antI-slavc-
ry upon high ground. 1t removes it beyond
the blightirg influences of political intrigue
and chicanery, it relieves it from ballot-box
morality, and causes its supporters to rely
wholly upon that truth which is mighty,
through God, for the destruction of slavery.
Wherever Disunion has been advocated, it
has proved to be a spell of might and power.
In Ohio it is e%1ecting a great moral ~revolu-
ZION. 1t has, angel-like, stirred the waters of
the sleeping pool, and many have been cured
of the leProsy Of slavery by its healing in
l%luence. Shall this work progress? Shall
the agitation be increased =! Shall the moral,
heallhful excitement, which has been com-
noauoni ho rpntipuaI 7 w. I.t:-..
desire ii shall be so; and those of you who
are members Of The Western Anti Slavery So
clety have declared this by appointing us
your agents to labor for this purpose. We
are anxious to do what we can, but it is not
in cur individual capacity that we can effect
much for the society, butts agents of the abo~
l~ilionists of the West, we shall accomplish
our work.
The American Anti-Slavery Society has
sent her agents, Parker Pillsbury, Stephen
5. and Abby X. Foster, into this field for Il
few months. Mosl gladly do we welcome
them here, and we feel assured that the frui.
OF their Iabors will be a rich recompense for
all their toll. We trust they will all receive
as kindly greetings and as faithful co-opera-
ton when they visit your respective neigh
borhoods as our friends Foster received when
they were here before. These agents are sus-
tanned pecuniarily by the American Society
and not only has that Society sent some of
It's truest, and best, and most uncomp,omising
advocates 10 labor here at its own expense,
but has contributed $500, to be expended in
the support of agents in this field. Whilst
all this is being done to aid the West, shall
not the West aid herselfl Shall she not also
send out agents, and contribute OF her album
dance for their support! There are many
persons whom this Committee might employ