Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-25


raj lecturing agents employed. James w.
Walker, who has, ever since he adopted Dis
union principles, been working so nobly and
eifectually for the ad advancement Of the cause,
has been in the field the whole year, with
the exception of a few weeks. II. w. Cur
lis, who has been alike devoted and efficient,
spent six months in lecturing. and ]. II.
Bowles and Leander o. Hatch were engaged
about two months subsequent to the annual
meeting.
Our General Agent, Samuel Brooke, who
has been long and ardently engaged in aiding
our enterprise in the West, and whodid much
to direct and render effective the operations of
our agents and eastern frieD6s, felt constrain-
ed, on account of i'll health, TO leave of ac-
tive operations for a time, and resigned his
agency in October last, since which time we
have had no General Agent employed.
The labors of H. G. Wright and c.. G.
Burleigh, in their recent anti-slavery con-
v%entions, held in different sections of the
State, have made and are making a deep i'm
preston. They have done much to arouse
public attention to the horrors of the slave
system and the guilt and crime of the Ameri-
can people.
The Anti-Slavery Bugle, which, during
the three years Of its publication, has occu-
pied and defended with zeal and earnestness
the high moral position advocated by the
American and Western Societies, in relation
to the corrupt religion, Constitution and GO
vernment of the nation, passed, in October
last, into the charge of the Executive Com
mittee.
1t is, perhaps, known to most of the mem
bers of the Western Society, that the publi-
cation of the Bugle was commenced three
years ago by the Elk. Committee of this So
ciety, then known as the Ohio American A..
S. Society. A part of the Committee, how
ever, were a. that time not fully convinced OF
the propriety or practicability of establishing
a Disunion paper in the West, and it was
deemed advisable to place the Bugle in charge
of a few individuals, who should be willing
to assume the responsibility of It's pubiica-
ton. Five individuals came forward, who
were willing to incur this responsibility
These were constituted a Publishing Com
mittee, and took charge Of the paper with the
understanding that though not formally the
organ of any Society, it should continue to
advocate the principles of the American A.
S. Society, and should be held in charge for
the Abolitionists of the West.
The Publishing Committee remained in
charge of the Bugle until the LIST Of October
last, " hen, by the unanimous consent of both
parties, it was again transferred to the Exec
utive Committee, and became the property
of the Western A. S. Society. Your COM
mittee were persuaded that such an arrange
ment vas desirable; the causes which made
the transfer of the paper three years ago to
the Publishing Committee necessary ceased
to exist. The Executive Committee were no
longer divided in sentiment in relation to the
necessity of a Disunion paper amongst US.
The Society had became firmly established
upon the principles which the Bugle had,
from the first, advocated with fidelity and
teadfastnes Of purpose-hence it was deem
ed proper by your committee that the Pub
fishing Committee should be released from
the responsibility of the paper, and, as before
stated, the Bugle is again, as in its com
mencement, the property and organ of thu
Western A.. S. Society. And we wish il
this connection to urge upon the Society tn
adoption of some measures to increase tn,
circulation Of the paper, and insure its future
, publication.
1t is unnecessary here to take time in show
q ing the necessity of having a paper in tn,
Western country devoted to the advocacy 0
Disunion principles. Without such means o
r communication and correspondence the effect
+ of the other operations of the Society mus
q be in a great measure lost. Will not tn
friends OF the slave, then, provide some mean
s of sustaining the paper? Can not severa
hundred new subscribers be Immediately OBJ
: tanned With its present subscription lis'
not quite I400 subscribers-lhe paper can
mol sustain itself. We hope and trust some
f thing decisive will be done, for we are full,
g convinced that we cannot labor with effcier
cy and success for the %slave's redemption
without the instrumentality, OF a well-con
Quoted, consistent anti slavery paper, who's
II motto shall be I" no union with Shareholders
9 -" no aid to the oppressOr."
6 Your Committee last fall prepared tire
a forms of petitions for circulation through tn
n State-one to Congress, asking that body t
call a convention 10 dissolve the Union; an
a two to the State legislature-the one urgin
that the State government should withdra,