Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-28
BOSTON BAZAAR.

An interesting and detailed report Of tho Bazaar
appears in the Lberator and Standard, signed by
Miss a. W. Weston. The receipts very consider
ably exceed those of last year, amounting to ForR
THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIrTY-sIX DoLLARs.-I
Besides, there remain on hand large number of
valuable articles unsold. Many of these will be
soon disposed of at the local fairs to bc held in
various parts of New England.
Large contributors were made TO the Bazaar,
by aboitionists in England, Scotland Ireland,
France, and some from Germany. The report is
too long for our columns; but our readers who
have access to the Standard and Liberator, las we
hope they all have,) will DO interested in its
perusal.
The closing portion of the report, though de-
signed to clear up difficulties which pro-slavcry
has thrown in the way of British aboltionists
may nevertheless be highly useful here at home.
After presenting the American society as an or
ganization designed to effect the union and
cooperation of all haters of injustice however
varied their opinions other suIjects,) against
American slavery, Miss Weston says;-
But another objection is presented where the
difficulty, intrinsic in the nature of the case is, of
course, pcrplexing, and far less easy of solu-
ton. The enemies Of the American Anti Slavery
Society have changed their ground. . 1t is not an
lnilde Society, but society that has u great many
lnfdes in it. To look at this matter fairly re-
quires wider Wow than many of our British
friends are able TO take. Their own agitation for
the abolition Of West India slavery offers nothing
analogous to the state Of things that has obtained
for the last twenty years in this country. No ms
titutions, either civil or ecclesiastical were the
least affected in Great Britain by the abolition of
West India slavery. Half dozen other questions
questions, too, religious rather than political
have involved important notifications of what may
be called the institutions of the country The
: Trntarian controversy the Papal aggression, (so
called,) the disruption Of the National Church of
Scotland, afford instances of our meaning. But
West India emancipation did not 90 down to the
very marrow of things as do these questions. 1t
was noble struggle with mighty moneyed into
rest and too great credit cannot be awarded to
British abolitionists. But, We repeat their situ-
alton differed very widely from ours. The Consti-
tuition of our country, cxponnded by its author
lied interpreters, has provided by tho most care
ful and astutc arrangements, for the continuance
= and pcrpetuiy of slavery. All our civil institu-
tions, arc, therefore, in sense based upon IT,
y Having no national ecclesiastical establishment
7 we cannot affirm the same of the American Church
in the absolute and positive sense that we dc
, of the State; and yet it is virtually and actually
so. The voters and the church members are the
same persons. The men who vote for the Fug
tive Slave Bill on week day, and avow them
selves ready to carry out its requirements are the
same men who sit down at the Lords table on
Sunday.
To abolish slavery, under such circumstances. i.
tantamount to revolution. True, the abolitionst,
i pray and labor that it may be boodless one: bu
just so far as their weapons spiritual lust il
the proportion as their warfare lies in the realm
ideas, will be the amount of the evil with whicl
c our foreign friends find fault and which we ar,
called upon to correct. This, it is out of our pow
er, in any direct way, TO accomplish Inwoven N