Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-12

principle and American practice; or respon-
sibility for keeping pure the sources Of pub
lie morals; or desire to lay deep IN the ma
tional conscience, the foundations Of future
generations.
After a deep and careful examination Of
ways and means for the pescssble abolition
of slavery. it has been found hopeless, except
through the consent OF the majority OF the
whole people. This Obtained, the work Is
done Tor the willing can readily find a wsy.
Sound judgment in the choice of means, and
the best economy in their expenditure, alike
forbid US, therefore, to enter into the partisan
or s~ectarian schemes, by which the purposes
Of any one OF the various political and ,heo-
logical persuasions will be subserved at the
expense OF the cause Of Freedom, while 9TH
es are aliena;ed from it in the same proper
ton. When the preliminary question is put,
which every one Ought TO ask,-'How do you
mean 10 eNpend the money, which you re-
quire our help to raise Y-our answer is, lit
shall be spent wholly and directly in AVA
kening, informing aud influencing the pSblis
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 freedoms and the hatred
of slavery in all; not in aiding a few fugi-
lives 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 10
become the free and happy elements Of ma
tional strength and prosperity at home not
in making the proposition so degrading 10 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 ia compensation, colonization, nor polii-
zeal p~ariizanship while a clear-:ighted 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, strongly, and successfully foo,
as our fourteen years Of labor prove, at tho
root oil The system we mean 10 abolish.
FINALLY, we appeal 10 our friends and
coun,rymen TO take part in this holy cause,
as TO trail and suffering and shorllived fell
low-cTeatures. 1t shall strengthen them in
weakness, comfort in affection, and steel
against calamity. Ii shall save them from
the sin of living on the side of the eppressor,
and The ignominy of dying in the silent sup
port of wrong. Ii 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 enslavers, when the moral bat.la
was fought out in the United States for the
freedom of a race. Its consultations are pro-
portionate TO its renunciations and in lis
prosecution, az in the great cause OF Christi
anity, of which its principles form a funda-
mental part, we are able TO assure such az
embrace il, that no man shall lose friends, or
houses, or lands for its sake, but he shall re-
ceive an hundred fold of nobler recompenss
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 to
phase
$4,000
at the ultimate disposal of the American An
ti-Slavery Society.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN,
AM Il. GREENE PHILLIrs,
and others.