Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-16
From the Pennsylvania freeman.


Serenth .4nnual RcpoH Of the american Free
Produce association.
The Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Free Produce Association, at the close of
its seventh year, find little to record, except
ing the statements which properly b long to
the report of the Manufacturing Committee.
These will show that the Society has not ex-
listed in vain, although 1t may have done less
IN other departments than in former years.
The difficulty of obtaining sufficient supply
OF free cotton manufactures, has, doubtless,
discouraged many abolitionists from attempt
ing to abstain from the Use of the products OF
slave labor, therefore every facility for pro-
curing such, which our Association has been
able to furnish. is an advantage gained over
the robber system of slavery.
The Address which was issued by you al
your last annual meeting, to British aboli-
tionists, urging upon them the duty of absti-
nence from the use Of slave-grown cotton, has
been circulated in Great Britain, and we trust
not without effect.
Your Committee notice with pleasure, in
dications of increasing interest in this depart
ment OF the antl-slavery enterprise. The for
nation of "A Free Produce Association, among
the Friends of this city, we hail as cheer
ing token that the slave is not forgotten by
them, and as an evidence that the influence of
our own Association has been felt by the com
munity around us. We wish our coad utors
abundant success.
The adoption, by various anti-savery soci-
cites of resolutions expressing our principles,
we also regard as manifestations of improv-
ing public sentiment, at least, among the
friends Of freedom. If those who have Civ
en- their votes in favor of these resolutions,
will faithfully conform their practice to them,
they may hasten the day of the slaves eman-
cipation.
Your Committee feel undiminished conf
dence in the principles on which our Associ-
ton is based, and earnestly wish that the
hearty adoption Of them, by every Anti-Sa-
very Society in the land, might render unne-
cessary a distinct organization for their pro-
motion. They are but plain deductions
from the fundamental anti-slavery principle,
and it is a cause of surprise and deep regret,
that many abolltionists whose eagle eyes ara
continually discovering new and rugged paths
of duty, and whose all conqurng zeal ena-
bles them, bravely and cheerfully, TO tread
those paths, sAou!i not yet have seen, amid
all the light which Is burning round them,
that true consistency requires of them absti.
nencs from the purchase of the ill-gotten fruits
of slavery. Would they cleanse their hands
from participation in these, would they bu
annul this union ,cih the shareholders, the con
sistency Of their course would render far more
effective their eloquent rebukes of his SIM
That they may be convinced of this, and tina
all who love the slave may be induced t.
bear faithful testimony against oppression
by refusing to be fed and clothed by stoler
labor, we earnestly eXhort the members 0
this Association to be untiring in their effort
to disseminate its principles, and to impress
them on the hearts of abolitionists. BY
pure example, accompanying cogent argu
ment and urgent expostuation, should thi:
| be done. The lamentable fact that so few
have rallied around our standard should no
weaken our adherence to truth or discourag
us in our attempt to propagate it. The in
terval between sowing and reaping may b
long, bnt the harvest will come. Truth per
severingly spoken, duty patiently perform
ed and sacrifices, to :he right, cheerful
made, will produce results which shal
ultimately bless the world. We have cas-
bread upon the waters, which to us may seer
to be utterly lost, but assuredly it shall
found after many days.
JAMES MoTT, Chairman
of Executive Committee.
Philadelphia, 10th mo. Sd, 1915.