Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-30
WESTERN ANTI-SLAVERY FAIR.

II seems desirable that those who arc en-
gagged in getting up the Fair should know
what is being done in the respective towns
that will be represented on that OCCASION
We have seen several women who are on the
Fair Committee, and have received letters
from others-for the benefit and encourage
ment Of all interested, we will note down a
few particulars.
The contribution Of the Green Plain Friends
has already arrived. The articles are all use
full, and such as will doubtless find a ready
sale; consisting of straw satchels, handbook
es, free labor cotton shirts, collars and bosoms,
a quantity of yarn stockings large and small,
nice needle-books, pin-cushions, book-marks,
fans, &C., &C., all of which will amount TO
some thirty or forty dollars. This donation
is valuable, not only for the funds it will
place in The Treasury of the Society, ard the
amount of good that will be effected by their
expenditure, but as evidences of the sympa-
thy of those members of the Society of Friends
who, unlike the great mass, are not afraid TO
unite with the world in deeds of benevolence
and philanthropy.
Very encouraging reports have been re-
ceived from the sewing circles at Ravenna,
Randolph, and several other towns.
The Philadelphia friends have sent a very
elegant assortment Of steel bead purses, beau
tifully embroidered cushions, lamp mats,
tides, china tea service for children, r~eticules,
hnnlo h,cIatc 2r aunotpsinn prchab1v n
about forty dollars. The friends at Boston
promise a box containing articles worth one
hundred dollars.
1t was proposed, as will be seen by the
" Call" TO obtain fer the Fair not only a va
riety of elegant and useful things which are
manufactured in sewing circles, but the work
of the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the
husbandman. So far as the surrounding
towns have been heard from, it does not ap-
pear that much has yet been done in the way
Of collecting from these last named sources.
Within a few days this experiment has been
made in Salem, and with the most s~atisfac-
tory result. Most of those who have been
called upon, have appeared willing 10 do
what they could for the cause Of the needy
and suffering bondman. Each gives of his
own labor, or contributes of the stock he has
on hand, consequently a variety of articles
have been obtained. Even the most fdstidi-
Gus opposer of Fairs could not object to what
has been procured, unless he took ground
against the whole system Of Trade. Some
money was contributed, and some things that
can readily be exchanged for it without being
removed from town. Quite an amount of or
ders and due-bills for store goods have been
procured, some shoes, hats, bonnet, pants,
smoothing irons, Liverpool ware, flour, honey,
wheelbarrow, globes, books and engravings,
chairs and cradles for dolls, labor at sewing,
smithing, &c., &c., for all of which the socl-
ETY. will probably realize $75, for that is about
the market value of the articles contributed.
This amount, added TO the useful and beauti-
constitute a donation worthy of the cause and
highly creditable to the town. 1t is design
ed to make more calls, for doubtless others
will be glad of an opportunity to contribute.
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ceptions, seemed quite ready 10 engage in
this undertaking, and a number who make
but little pretensions to antl-slavery, gave
their dollar each to support the cause. Some
who do not sympathize with the Western So
ciety in its views, gave literally, believing
it was doing an anti-slavery work.
Will not the friends of the cause, in every
neighborhood where there are abollIionists,
and where there are not, go to work immedi-
ately to raise contributions for this object?
You do not know what you can accomplish
until you try. If Salem can do thus well,
there are many towns that ought 10 do much;
and it is TO be hoped that it will not be the
fault of abolitionists, if their respective towns
are not honorably represented. The time for
the Fair is close at hand-let us be up and
doing. A little effort now will accomplish
an immense amount of good.
OF We like the August No. of GRAHAM.
1t contains no portrait of an epauletted muir
derer as did the last; no biographical sketch
of one whose past and present career is mark
ed with human blood. On the contrary, its
engraving of "The Spanish Lovers repre-
sents a scene of quiet beauty, such as doubt
less had many counterparts in Mexico before
American power drenched them with the
blood of the lovers who ~rejoiced in them and
in each other.
Cooper's "Islets of the Gulf" and Good
mans "Slaver'' are both deeply interesting.
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