Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-05
VOL. 8
National Anti.SlaVsry Bazaar.

Inc hunuhl hepOht VI tnlb bHLanre OCCuDl
some six or seven columns of the Liberate
and Standard. 1t is an interesting documen
Of much general and historical interest. ]
was prepared by Miss A. w. Weston. OF tn.
receipts of the Bazaar, the Report says
1.-THE receipts of this year amounted l.
s4.O3o-exceedng by $1,000, those of tn
previous year exceeding indeed, those of any
previous year, with the sole exception of tho
Bazaar of lS46, at which time Boston was un-
der the delusion that she was an anti. slavery
city, quite prepared to dissolve the Union in
case of the admission of Texas. and indignant
at the suggestion that a slave could DO taken
from her borders. Our receipts were then q
few hundred dollars more than the present;
but when we consider that since that time,
every refuge OF lies has been swept away, and
the anti-slavery and pro.slavery spirit stand
more closely and directly opposed than ever
before, without veil OF subtcrfuge, we feel that
our measure Of success has been such as to
supply all needed strength for future labor and
conflict"
"The receipts of this yearly Bazaar arc de-
voted to the support Of the National Anti. Sia-
rery Standard, and the maintenance Of the CEN
trail operations Slavery Office, Agency,
&C., in the city of New York"
or the principle object of the society, in aid
Of which these funds are appropriated, the Re-
port very happily speaks 1t snyI;
"The American And-Slavery Society, for
,yhose benoHt tho nazaar oxista IL basoJ 90, on.
principle alone principle so simple and self
evident, so entirely in consonance with human
ity and justice, so clearly in accordance with
the dictates OF reason and common sense, so
removed from fanaticism, that it is difficult to
suppose that any mind, unbiased by customer
selhshncss, could think its converse aught but
the climax of absurdity and wickcdness. Tho
doctrine is simply this That this human frame
of ours, so cunningly and wonderfully made,
informed and tcnantcd by spirit created in
Gods own image, a soul whose great value is
set forth to the eyes of Christcndom by. the
incstimable price, as its belief alleges paid for
its redemption, so furnished with powers and
affections and hopes and sympathcs that attest
alike its origin and destiny, is not, and cannot
be, merchandise, property thing to be bought
and sold. No human laws, no compao's, no
conventions, no national arrangements nor un-
derstandings are competent to perform this
transmutation, to change human nature into
goods and chattels, to make one man the prop
crty Of another. This doctrine is the one
point OF attraction that unites tho American A.
5. Society; its adoption the one condition Of
membership. Now, ut first sight, this propo-
sition appears so reasonable that one would
suppose it required great hardibood to deny 1t
In fact, whcn any direct argument is held ON
this point by people not greatly deficient either
in sense OF conscience, it very shortly becomes
apparent that they do not understand the sub
ject they are treating. system that regards
man as Il serf, dependant, a vassal. a pupil,
an apprentice, may be an imperfect and in some
cases sinful one; but the system with which
we are at warfare is one that considers him
marketable commodity, a something whose
value is registered in the price current. To
denounce it as an insult TO God and an outrage
against man is, VIC apprehend, no cxaggcration
or harshness, but the simplest and gcntlcst form
of expression that truth will allow us to use
Having received this doctrine the action of tho
abolitionists is only its simple and necessary
consequence. 1t is to be carried out, if need
be, over the ruins of any state, or any church,
or any governmental arrangement, or any COM
mercial advantages; and we say this not in a
rash or irresponsible spirit, but simply as an
answer to that weak and sophistical reasoning,
that argues that there can be any thing worse
than continuance in confessed crime. There is
actually, at the present time, no insurmountaLlc
and not to be understood obstacle in the way of
the abolition of American slavery A spirit of
national repentance is the only thing needed.
That twenty millions of people. with immense
wealth, immense energy, general education,
republican forms of government, and profes.
sion of the Christian religion in its purcst and
most democratic forms, can find no way in
which they can safely emancipate three millions
of slaves is in our eyes an absurd proposition.
Here is the difficulty. 1t cannot be done with
out sacrifice of money and power, for which
this degraded and guilty nation is wholly un.
prepared. To the cntreaties of the abolition
lists, it is thought a sufficient answer, that uado
will be injured, or the balance of political now
er impaired. We are not at all prepared to
deny. that this great work of mercy could be
accomplished without much national and per-
sonal distress"
$is,s76,S6i in gold was imported form Cali
fornia to N. Y. city, in lS52.-Mrs. Stowe
has received second $4,000 as her share Of