Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-26
THE FOURTEENTH
National Anti-SIaYery Bazaar.
To be held in Bosion, during Christmas and
Neu- Years Jvec&, 1878.


The Undersigned, the Committee oil tho
Fourteenth National A. S. Bazaar, appeal
10 all that is good and true in this nation
for which they labor, TO aid their nnderta-
king.
Our object is the abolition of slavery thru
the renovation of public opinion; and we ask
help Of all who feel the impulse Of compass
sion for a suffering people or the instinct Of
self-preServaiion in view of the encroachl
ments of tyranny, and the dangers Of sin or
the divine and awful sense of Justice, moving
them to uphold the right or he high sense
of honor and religious obligation, impelliug
them to choose their lot in this life with the
slaves, and not with their oppressors; or
shame beneath the scorn of Christendom
Justly due to a nation of Shareholders; or
disgust at the discrepancy between American
principle and American practice or fespon-
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 Il deep and careful examination Of
ways and means for the peaceable abolition
of slavery, ii has been found hopeless, except
through the consent of the majority of the
whole people. This obtained, the work is
done; for the willing can readily find a way.
ophllu JuhElllNlA III hlO hOlN vi litdllSs anu
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 iheo-
logical persuasions will be subserved at the
expense of the cause of Freedom, while 9th
ers are alienaied from it in The same proper
ton. When the preliminary question is put,
which every one ought TO ask,-'How do you
mean 10 eXpend the money, which you re-
Quire our help 10 raise ?'-our answer is, lit
shall be spent wholly and directly in AVA
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, 10 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-
tives 10 escape, but 10 save them that painful
and hazardous experiment by abolishing the
system which e~nslaves 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 10 the
morals of our nation, that The government
should become the tributary Of this wrong,
but in efforts for such an elevation OF nltion5
al character as shall brand it-CRIME.'
This money will, in short, be spent nei-
Their in compensation, colonization, nor polit-
zeal partizanship /; while 4 clear-sighted econ
omy will also forbid its being used in the
equally benevolent, though less encclual,
channel Of a vigilance committee. u will
be spent in Proragandism for we strike
openly, boldly, strongly, and successfully too.
as our fourteen years of labor prove, at the
roof Of the system we mean to abolish.
Finally, we appeal to our friends and
countrymen 10 take part in this holy cause,
as to lrail and suffering and short-liyed fell
low-creatures. 1t shall strengthen them in
weakness, comfort in affection, and steel
against calamity. 1t shall save ihcrn 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 disgTaceful sympathy into the
ranks of the enslavers, when the moral battle
was fought DOT in the United States for the
freedom of a race. Its consultations are pro-
portlonate TO its rcnunciations and in lis
prosecution, as in the great cause of Christi,
anlty, of which its principles form a fonda
mental part, we are able TO assure such as
embrace it, that no man shall lose friends, or
houses, or lands for its sake, but be shall re-
ceive an hundred fold of nOhler recompense
in this world, and a sense of spiritual life be-
sides, TO which the Indifferent fiiVolities of a
selfish existence sink into insignifcanee.
BY the united efforts Of all who ought 70
cooperate on this occasion, i, is proposed &c
place
$4,000
at the ultimate disposal of the American An
ri-Slavery Society.
MARIA Weston ChAPMAN,