Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
To the Ladies of AnIi-Slavery Sewing
Circles.

IL tllO LuulOO vi 4lllll DIuNIll bOn ms
Circles.
Few, il any Of US, fully appreciate the i'm
p%ortance of our influence; the extent of our
example upon our friends, upon society, up
on the world, upon all coming time. The
influence of man is co-extensive with the en-
istence of his race. The genial influence of
a righteous life, though passed in the closet,
casts a ray of warning across the path Of the
wary and dissolute, and beckons them TO high
er and holier enjoyments; or alighting amid
those who tread in wisdom's path, cheers
them on in the attainment of their motto,
Excelsior What tongue can tell the bles-
sings of a righteous act! 1t is like the fee
lie rain drop-which leaves its airy home,
swells the gentle %rivulet, aud urges on its ac-
celebrated wave DER the pebbled pathway
through "verdant lawn" or "shady grove"t to
its vast ocean home. How small an object
turns at first from its threatning course the
| avalanche that had otherwise buried the I'M
conscious city beneath its awful weight!
| doubt not the inquiry often arises in
your minds, What can we do! for | know
that as your minds eye catches a prospect of
the work in which you are engaged, and for
which you labor and pray, you will feel to
exclaim, 'Who is sufficient tor these thingsr
A moments reflection upon the momentous
duties, interests and responsibilities of those
engaged in the emancipation Of the slave
might deter the stoutest hearts and the most
experienced wisdom.
The eagerness with which the Hydra of
Oppression" watches the combatants in the
great tournament of Right and Truth with
Expediency the readiness of a corrupt reli-
gion TO misrepresent and ialsify the awful
and criminal apathy on the part of commune
e ty and lastly, the anxiety, the trembling
anxiety Of the slaves who are to-day sold in
the shambles with the OK, stript of their all,
whose woes are past utterance, and whose
degradation almost infinite as they turn their
supplicating eyes oward you for help, might
drive from the arena the most chivalric and
daring moral hero, lest in an attempt to turn
aside or destroy this mighty avalanche they
should be overwhelmed and carried to the
ruin below. But fear we not, for Truth is
great and will prevail" Like Leonidas at
the gap of Thermopyln, step into the moral
breach, remembering that 'one can chase a
thousand and two put ten thousand to flight
What though there be few who come to
swell your numbers, and aid in your councils,
and worship with you at the shrine of free.
dom, those that are for you are more thar
those that be against you, for God and Truth
and Love and Christianity are with you, ant
already | hear the voice of God sounding
g through the ranks of oppression and bringing
terror and dismay to its scattering legion say
ing, "1he Slare must and shall be free"
Fear not because the masses come not VI
to the work of mans redemption. The phi
lanthropists had long since given up as fu
tile all efforts for the elevation of man, hac
y they ceased their efforts until the masses o
the people moved. The people will stanr
ere long where you now stand then | trus
n you will be still advancing and melting III
Is masses to still higher and more active inca
rs sures for the redemption of the race. Itneed
lie but the 'Sacramental host of Gods elect
le to go for ward with steady and unlalterini
step, and the work, however "Herculean,
10 wiH be accomplished.
1t Can a single envious feeling cross you
a. bosoms as you contrast your enjoyment
IN while engaged in The work of humanity, an,
Il as you bring your stated Offering TO the TEN
to pie of Liberty, with those of the sensualis
'e or the %votaries of fashion? A million and
in half Of your sisters daily driven to the altar
in of common prostitution, denied the marriage
n riie-that sacred shield that God has throw
in around woman to protect and preserve wha
is lovely in her nature; the cradles of 70, OOl
mothers annually robbed of their immorta
re contents, the anguish of their hearts as the,
~ look upon their precious babes, a milIiotfS
c. wives liable 10 perpetual Punishment from
10 the husbands Of their youth and choice, an,