Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-02
Fifteenth Annual Report
OF The philadelphia Female .4nti-Slarery So
cieiy.

The celebration of the fifteenth anniversa-
~ of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery
Society, is TO its members, an occasion Of
glad thanksgiving. During the period which
has elapsed since its organiZatlon, its annual
retrospects have been of varied Character
Sometimes we have mournPd over the diff
culiies of our way, the detection OF the
Church, the corruption Of the State, the
fierce opposition or cold Indifference of the
community /; sometimes exulted over a victo-
~ achieved, and ever have we drawn from
the history of the past, Encouragement for
the future. To-day we come with swelling
hearts, to raise the song of Gloria in e~rceSis,
in Joyous anticipation Of the perfect victory
which is soon to crown our work.
The crisis has come. The slave power is
broken. The North, the insulted, much-en-
during North, has at last aroused herself in
defense of her own rights, against Southern
oppression. and no gift of prophecy is need
ed to read the speedy downfall of American
slavery. The history of our enterprise fur
nishes abundant evidence Of the victorious
power of truth over error, Of Right over
Wrong. But a few years ago, in its aPpar-
ent insigniicance it might have been likened
to a single seed planted in the earth but
during those few years it has sent out roots
deep and strong, and spread its branches
wide and high upon those branches glorious
fruits are ripening fast, and The leaves Of the
tree are for the healing Of the nation. No
carping opponent asks Of us, to-day, What
have you accomplished 7 for he lifts up his
eyes, and beholds the whitened harvests
which await our ~reaping. Even he cannot
mistake the evidences Of progress which are
all around US. They are seen in the %convul-
sed and anomalous state of the political par
ties of the country. Those two parties which
have long maintained an unhoIy rivalry ir
their devotion to southern institutions, have
suddenly become clamorous for our once
odious name, and in the North, each is zeal
ously striving to prove that the other is less
anti.slavery than itself! The pressure o.
public sentiment which has produced such
change, must be strong and permanent. Tn,
formation Of a new political party, who's
distinctive principle is the restriction o
slavery within its present limits, is an une
quiuOcal sign of the times. The passage o
a motion in the present Congress for the in,
PRODUCTION Of a bill for the abolition of III
slave trade in the District of Columbia, is tn
death .knell Of The slave system. The op
pressor heard it, and turned pale with fear
for he knew that his doom was sealed. RI
NAV retard the approach OF the hour whicI
he so much breads, he may delay, for anoth
or and yet another year, the Congreseiona
action which shall abolish slavery and III
slave trade in the District Of Columbia, an,
consequently weaken its vital energie
throughout the whole country. but he ca
never recover the power which by that dee
has been lost to slavery, and won TO free
dom. The issue is now fairly made in Cor
gress, and the " battle once begun, thong
Sanquished off," will surely be won by III
champions of the Right. Southern Presse
are openly testifying to the necessity and eS
pediency of the abolition Of slavery and IN
slave traffic, in language such as they hsV
never used before,