Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-26
Boston Bazaar.

The receipts of the Bazaar this year amount
ed to thirly-three hundred dollars, about one
thousand dollars less than those of last year.
This is to be attributed mainly 10 the unfa-
vorable weather that prevailed nearly the en-
tire ten days the Bazaar was open. In the
customary report of the proceedings of this
anti-slavery agency, the writer-Anne War
rem Weston-thus speaks of the need, OBJ
jects, and efficiency of the Bazaar:
1t has been suggested by a correspondent
abroad that we should point out the necessity
that creates the existence or the Bazaar, and
some OF the changes that it has been enabled
10 produce. We can only say that on this
instrumentality the American Anti-Slavery
Society especially relies for a portion Of the
funds by which II carries forward the fear
fully important undertaking Of changing the
hearts and enlishtening the consciences Of
seventeen millions of people, as regards a
question touching which, they were till with
in the last eighteen years even as the people
Of Nineveh, not knowing their right hand
from their left. That this is not now the case,
that the whole country is thoroughly aroused,
that old parties are broken up, churches sha-
ken and severed, Congress thoroughly con-
vulsed with discussion, newspapers, secular
and religious, of every shade of opinion, ring
ing with controversy, a great Northern party
beginning TO form, basing itself not on those
paltry and mercenaryc considerations that have
hitherto shaped politics, but assuming as its
foundation the great question of Human
~Rights-thal all this is passing before our
eyes we may thank the earnest, uncompro-
missing utteTance OF the truth by the Ameri-
can Anti-Slavery Society and lis auxiliaries.
The same decided u.lerance is still called
for. This body, few in number, weak in
worldly influence, destitute Of pecuniary abil-
ity, hated as The depository Of the most I'M
popular truth that could be presented. to a ma
ton like ours, namely the identity and equal
ity of The human family, this d~espised and
illuminated body is yet the only one that
knows and uiters the whole truth Without
Concealment-Without Compromise" 1t
enunciates absolute truth and calls for entire
justice, allowing no man TO tolerate crime or
palter with oppression even for an hour. 1t
denies the name of Christian to that Church
that sanctions or c%onnives at Human Slave
~. 1t scoTns and loathes a compact by
which a fugitive slave is returned to bondage,
and strong men pledge themselves TO turn
cowardly weapons against the weak and
helpless whom oppression shall have goaded
TO madness.
These are the doctrines which the Ameri-
can Anti, Slavery Society promulgates. 1t is
the privilege Of the American Bazaar TO aid
it in this good work, and this mode of assist
ance will not be, we trust, abandoned, ill a
more efficient and excellent manner of produ.
cling the same or greater results, shall have
been devised.
This Annual Festival has many collateral
benefits at which we can only glance. 1t ex.
erts a most fortunate influence in opposition
TO the unmanly and unchristian prejudice
against color which obtains so widely ever
In this city, where, from its educational and
literary Pretensions, less ignorance and bar