Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-03
THE FoURTEENTH
National Anti.Siavery Bazaar.
IT, Be- Aid in Boston, during Chrifs1c' and
NttO- Years Weok, 1919.

The undersigned, the Committee Of the
Four,senih National A. 8. Bazaar, appeal
10 ell that Is good ana iTUc in this nation
fos whioA they labor, TO aid their nndetta-.
king.
or object is the abolition Of slavery thro'
the renovation Of public opinion; and we ask
help If sll VINO feel the impulse Of compass
sion for a suffering people /; or the instinct OF
selfpreservation II view OF the encgoaeA.
mems OF tyranny, and TIE dangers Of sin or
.he divine and awful sense Ct Justice, moving
them 10 uphold the right; or the high sense
Of honor and religious obligation, tmpelling
them to choose their lot In this life with tho
slaves, and not with their oppressorsj oe
sheule beneath the sccrn Of Chrisisndom
ius;ly due 10 n nation Of ola veboldersi ot
disgust Ut the diacrpaney between AuseIicsH
principle and Amcttcen practice, or respou-
s,bilty fot keeping pure the sources Of pub
lie morals; or desire to lay deep in the ma
tional conscience, the foundations Of fr;urs
generations.
After q deep and careful examination Of
ways and means for the Pesceable abolition
Of slavery, II hps been found hopeless, except
through the consent of the majority Of tia
whole people. This obtained, the work is
done; for the wiijing can readily find a wsy.
Sound jud In the choice Of means, md
the best economy in iheir expenditure, alike
forbid us, therefore, to enter into the partissa
OF secng!sr schemes, by which the purposes
Of any one Of the various ~politicsl and ,heo-
logical psrsussivns will be subseryed at the
axpsnse of the cause Of Freedom, while 9th
ers are s~lienared from it in the sane pIopos-
ton. When tho preliminary question lie pat.
which every one ought TO ask,-'How do yoa
mean to expend the money, which you re-
quirs cur help to rsisef'-our answer 10, 1t
shall be spent wholly and directly in wa
kening, informing and influencing The public
mind on this primarily important question:
IL shall not be put into the hands Of eny Of
the political organizations, to promote the
election of any candidate, but be made to
awaken The love ef freedom and the hatred
Of slavery In all net In aiding a few fugi-
tives to escape, but 10 snYe them that painful
and hazardous eKporiuen, by aholishing the
system which ~ensisves them not in send
ing them to Africa, but in enabling them to
become the free and happy elements Of ina
ticDal 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 i;-cRlMs.'
This money will, in short, be spent mel
! Their in Compensation, colonization, nor polit
i ical psrtizanship; while Q ciear.sighted econ.
omy viii also forbid its being used in tbs
9 equally benevolent, though less efFectrai,
Channel of a vigilance committee. 1t will
be spent In ProPagandism for we strike
openly, boldly, strongly, and successfully too,
as our fourteen years of labor prove, at the
Toot Of the system we mean TO abolish.
Finally, we appeal 10 our friends and
counirymen to take part in this holy cause,
as to irail and suffering and short-lived fel.
low.crealuTes. 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 oppressot.
and the ignoniny of dying in The silent sup
port Of wrong. Il shall secure their children
from such an inheritance of grief and shame,
IS the remembrance that their parents were
drawn by disgraceful sympathy into the
ranks of the euslavers, when the moral battle
was fought GOT in the United States for the
: freedom Of a race. lis consultations are pro
. portionate 10 It's renunciations and in its
, prosecution, as in the great cause Of Christi
anity, OF which its principles form a funda.
= mental part, we are able 10 assure such %
( embrace it, that no man shall lose friends, 0,
. houses, or lands for its sake; but he shall re-
, ceive an hundred fold Of nobler recompense
! in this world, and a sense Of spiritual life be
o sides, 10 which the indifferent frivolities of
: selfish existence sink into insignifcance.
u BY the united efforts Of all who ought t,
o cooperate on this occasion, i, is proposed t
!" place
= $4,000
at the ultimate disposal Of the American An
+ ti-Slavery Society.
MARIA Wrsroa CHAPMAN,
. ANN L. GREENE PHILLIPS.