Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-02
NO. 21.'
National Bazaar

The Anti-Slavety Standard of the 2itlr
ult. contains a deeply interesting report, by
ANNE WARREN WEsToN, of matters pertain
ing to the late National Bazaar, held as usu-
sl in Faneuil Hall, Boston. The receipts
amount to S3,360, showing an increase of
S135 on those Of last year. If The Liberty
Bell had been published this year as usual,
the increase would have been much greater.
The omission of that faithful tocsin OF Free
dom Is u misfortune which we hope will rot
again occur The Bazaar was opcreJ ot
too late day, after many of its Patrons bo,i
made their usual purchases of Christmas
Presents; and this ulso tended to diminish
the receipts. Next years Bazaar will open
on tho 18th Of December, and the day being
onnouncsd thus early, the friends of the
cause will be more likely to be prompt in
their contributions On the whole, the re-
suits Of the one now alluded to are highly
encouraging. The number of individuals
and places from which donations were re-
ceived, has greatly increased, and, in the
language of Miss Weston, encourages us
to hope that the influence of the Bazaar may
in time be so widely felt that it shall deserve
the name of National, not merely in the
scope of its design, but in virtue of its re-
mote and scattered contributions" The
Abolitionis,s of the West should feel their
obligation to do something toward the real
zotion of this 'hope.' Will they not think
oft?
From the concluding paragraphs of Miss
Weston's report, we copy as follows:
We have finished our imperfect account
of the labors aud success OF the Bazaar OF
1850: OF the triilng amount OF both, in com-
parson with the great work before us, no
one can bc more entirely aware than our
selves. Ii is not small thing 10 awaken
the conscience and soften the heart OF n
great nation, and how gladly would we re-
sign our part OF the work to stronger hands.
When we regard the fearful condition of our
country at the present time, the question be-
fore il, not whether Slavery he abolished
where il now exists, but whether it be estab
Iislled in lands and cimes hitherto uncursed
by its presence, and see the respectable "
presses of Boston oracularly announce that
the present is 10 time to increase the QgitG-
ton Oh this subject, and the clergymen OF
Boston rcdouDling their efforts Tor the pro-
mitigation OF tlie Gospel III Heathen lands,
and tic Legislature now in session i'll its
State House, striving To ascertain how small
concession tO Freedom may satisfy the
halt-dwakened conscience OF It's constituency,
we then leel thut in the recreGncy OF these
mud other influential classes resides tie stim-
ulus tiIat urges INTO u warfare whose respOn-
sibilities were indeed too heavy were It not
for the appreciation allotted OF old 10 her who
hAlh done whaI she could. While we write,
a young girl OF ~, Iom Wilmington, North
Carolina, has arrived in The port oI Boston,
She comes lIali-starved aud halfIrozen, lea
wing her infant child behind, the vessel i'll
which she was concealed having been re-
peatediy smoked as it lay at the Southern
wharf, tiiat she might, 10 save her lie, be il-
duced 10 come iorth from her suspected hi
dlbS-pitce.
fiow Is the arrival of this woman hailed in
Boston. Tue story is told as All item OF
news ia the daily papers, aud, thanks to that
common seIse which ut times supplies llIe
place vi humanity aud conscIence, the poor
victim OF unnumbered expressions Is not
absolutely blamed ior asserting her owner
ship OF her own person. But no strong
sympathy, ne bufnlhg indignation finds
place. Iic Captain of the vessel makes II
statement expressive OF his regret at the oc-
currence OF SO uutOwaTd an event, and Ills
sense OF the sill of helping slaves escape,
aud nobody thiuks il al all disgracciul or
reprehensIDle. The injury done TO trade,
the possible detention and loss OF the vessel,
the annoyance OF the Captain, all these are
greatly Insisted ON, aud that by proiesscd be-
levers i'll the New Testament, by men who
have listened thousand times with pretend
ed acquicscence 10 line text "Whut shall it
profit man Ia goiA Tic whole world and
lose his own soul 2" To say that the des-
truction of ship and cargo were liule in COM
parison with the lifelong bondage OF this
poor girl would be esteemed the widest la
naticIsIn, people naiyeiy asking in their
intense selnsbIiess "Iiow should like illju-
ny done 10 my trade or my ship at the South Z"
not remembering thai the query should be
HNere II ny daughter fleeing from Algerinc
bondage ?"
Loud and long is the indignation express
sed against the barburties OF Russia and
Austria, but it occurs not 10 the minds OF tho
community in which we dwell that similar
atrocities ure performing ut our very doors,
and that every man recognizing the Consti-
tuition OF the United States as binding oil his
conscience, is pledged 10 deliver 10 the Hay
naus Of the South their fugitive victims
The subject is too lnOllrIiul, the reflections
it awakens too bitter and humiliating, or ono
might find amusement in the recent debate
in the United States Senate on the propriety
OF interrupiing diplomatic relations with
Austria. We TO affect TO rebuke the nations
who, hud we been but faithful to our mission,
might have been the glory aud beauty of the
whole earth, instead OF being as now the
shame and stumbling block OF European
progress
In these circumstances, Freedom and Hut
manity call oil all, irrespective OF class, creed
condition or sex, and whoever responds, has
commission
"From that Supreme Judge, who strs good