Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-28
National Anti-SIayeTy Bazaar.

of NJ. w. Chapman. Fanieul Hall was brill
liantly decorated for the occasion, and crowd
ed many days frcm morning till night by
those who wished to see and purchase the
many rare and exquisite rticles'coniributed
b.. the friends of freedom in the old and new
quence Of those who from time 10 time gave
uiterance TO thigh words Of truth. Tor free
dom and for Cod The receipts this year
amount to $4,000, which was certainly more
than could be expected under the circumstdn-
ces. How this money will be applied may
be learned from the following extract from
The description referred to.
OUR OBJEcT is the entire, uncoRdijona!
and 6i0odiess Liberation OF the slaves OF This
country.
OuR PRINCIPLES are, that slavery is not
only a national calamity. but an individual
sin; and ought as both of these, TO be immr-
diately rebuked, abolished and repented Of
that no man has a right 10 ~eBslaye another
TO hold or acknowledge hin one moment as
ptoperty--,hat the right 10 liberty is inaliena-
ble-that tho color ef the complexion should
never be made = bar to the enjoyment Of any
Of the rights of man.
OUR Measures consist in the promulgation
Of our principles. In order 10 convict this
nation Of its sin, and bring il to repentance.
we organize anti-slayery societies, for the
purpose Of sustaining lecturers, circulating
tracts and periodicals, appealing to the church,
lie State, the pulpit, the press, the family
to men End women every where, OF every con-
ditiou and profession.
When it is remembered that the American
Church sanctions slavery, by e~levating slave
holders to the highest and hottest places
and that the American Government exacts a
pledge of the citizen, Of his physical force,
to put down any attempt of the slaves to
achieve their lberly-provides for the per
petuaiion of slavery by authorizing the slave
holder TO vote on three.iiiths of his slaves as
neutrality-suspicious. a standing army at the
South for his protectiOn- inyades foreign ma
=. lions for an addition TO his territory, and an
extension of his market-enacts that every
fugitive slave shall be returned 10 his master
1t is not surprising that such an object,
such principles, and such measures. should
brlng us into direct collision with almost eve
ry individual Of d nation given over to such
wickedness. To men In their civil capacity,
5 we say that their union with Shareholders is
criminal and full Of danger. and must be bro
ken up. To men in their ecclesiastical capa-
city. we present the highest moral standard
which prncIaims the Shareholder a sinner. and
declares that a church that sanctions slavery
has its overthrow registered on the scroll Of
: destiny.
or course. every obstacle that hostility.
treachery, %calumny and apostacy imply. will
be thrown in our path. 10 overcome these
, obstacles, to promulgate these principles, 10
: convert by these measures this nation to a
sense of its high duty, we ask the OF all who
witness our conflict. For further explana-
lions and more minute details, we refer to the
LlBERATOR, the organ Of our cause, pub
lished at Boston, by w. l.. GARRISON, sub
scription 81 per annum in advance, and the
National Auti-Slavery Standard. the organ of
the Society, published in New York Sydney
Howard Gay, editor, 81 per annum. We
also refer to our audited and published reports
for the last sixteen years. Sill there may
! be those who desire at this moment, a more
, specific answer to the question: How do
mean to expend the money that you ask our
help to raisel We reply
1t shall be spent wholly, only and directly,
in awakening, informing, and influencing the
individuals whose aggregate makes up the
public mind, on this primarily important ques-
5 ton. 1t shall not be put into the hands of
political organizations, to promote the cleo
ton Of any candidate, hut in awakening the
love Of freedom, and the hatred of slavery, in
all; not in aiding fugitives to escape, but to
save them that painful and hazardous expert
: ment, by abolishing that system which Ell
; slaves them not in sending them to Africa.
but in enabling them to become the free and
5 happy elements of national strength and pros
perity at home.
This money will, in short, he spent neither
in compensation, colonization, nor political
I craftsmanship but solely in propagandism
aud the result will be right action in every
ramiiication of society.
We. therefore, confidently appeal 10 all in
3 every land 10 take part in this holy cause
# FrdiI, and suffering, and short-lived, are all
-. men; but a cause like this shall strengthen
them in weakness, comfort them in ailliciion,
and steel against calamity. 1t shall save
them from the sin of living on the side of the
oppressor, and the ignonlny Of dying in the
silent support of wrong. BE they Americans
: it shall secure their children from such an
!, Inheritance Of grief and shame, as the remem-
" brance that their parents were drawn by dis
graceful sympathy into the ranks OF the en-
%slavers, when the moral battle was fought
out in the United States for the freedom Of a
5 race. Be they Of other nations-our country
n is the world and we gladly welcome 10 our
fraternity the children OF every cline, and
most gratefully receive their help in the pro-
s~ecution of our sacred cause. II may-ir
n must be, that in SO doing, we welcome them
II to suffering. But the consolation Of such a
cause is proporlionate to the remuneration f;
= and in its prosecution. as IN the great cause
j Of Christianity, OF which its principles form
a fundamental part, we are able TO assure such
as embrace this cause, that no man shall lose
friends, or houses, or lands for lis sake, but
: he shall receive an hundred fold Of nobleI re-
& componss in this world, and a sense Of spirit
ual life besides, - which the Indifferent fri
. ~vnlitiea Of q selfish existence elnk into lnslr.