Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-17

of slavery, it has been found hopeless, except
through the consent Of the majority Of The
whole people. This obtained, the work 10
done; for the willing can readily find a way.
Sound judgment in the choice of means, and
the best economy in their expenditure, alike
forbid US, therefore, TO enter into the partisan
or sectarian schemes, by which The purposes
Of any one Of the various political and tbeo-
logical persuasions will be subserved at the
expense Of the cause Of Freedom, while 9TH
ers are alienaled from ii in The same proper
ton. When the preliminary question Is put,
which every one ought TO ask,-'How do you
mean to expend the money, which you re-
quire our help to raise 2'-eur answe is, lit
shall be spent wholly and directly in wa
kening, informing and influencing the public
mind on this primarily important question:
1t shall not be put into the hands of any Of
the political organizations, TO promote the
election of any candidate, but be made to
awaken the love of freedom and the hatred
OF slavery in all not in aiding a few fugi-
tves 10 escape, but TO save them that painful
and hazardous experiment by abolishing the
system which enslaves them not in send
ing them TO Africa, but in enabling them to
become the free and happy elements Of ma
tional strength and prosperity at home; not
in making the proposition so degrading TO the
morals of our nation, that the government
should become the tributary of this wrong,
but in efforts for such an elevation of nation
al character as shall brand it-cRIME.'
This money will, in short, be spent nei-
Their in compensation, colonization, nor polit-
lcal parlizanShip; while a clear-sighted econ
omy will also forbid its being used in the
equally benevolent, though less effcc,ual,
channel Of a vigilance committee. Ii will
be spent in Propagandism for we strike
openly boldly, strongl y, and successfully too,
as our fourteen years Of labor prove, at the
root OF the system we mean to abolish.
Finally, we appeal to our friends and
countrymen to take part in this holy cause.
as 10 irail and suffering and shor,-lived fell
low-creatures 1t shall strengthen them in
weakness, comfort in affection, and steel
against calamity. 1t shall save them from,
the sin OF living on the side Of the oppressor,
and the ignominy of dying in The silent sup
port OF wrong. 1t shall secure their children
from such an Inheritance Of grief and shame,
as the remembrance that their parents were
drawn by disgraceful sympathy into the
ranks Of the enslavcrs, when the moral battle
was fought out in the United States for the
freedom of a race. Its consultations are pro-
porllonate to its renunciations and in lis
prosecution. as in the great cause of Christi
anity, Of which its principles form a funda-
mental part, we are able to assure such as
embrace 1t, that no man shall lose friends, or
houses, or lands for its sake, but he shall re-
celve an hundred fold of nobler recompense
In this world, and a sense of spiritual life be-
sides, to which the indifferent frivolities of a
selfish existence sink into insignifcance.
By the united Efforts Of all who ought TO
cooperate on this occasion, it is proposed 10
place
$4,000
at the ultimate disposal Of the American An
ti-Slavery Society.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN,
ANN L. GREENE Phillips,