Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
THE BOSTON BAZAAR.

IVY N"h NAINNNhANp " Ahi hN'N
ing to, fee thousand dollars. The report is of es-
pccial interest, as giving evidence of the wide
spread interest our cause is exciting. The story
Of the slaves misery and the effort of his redemp
ton, has reached to Scotland, England, Ireland,
France and Switzerland, and everywhere it has
found earnest friends of freedom and justice who
have promptly responded, to appeals for his aid
They have responded by liberal contributions and
laborious industry. And every year, is the circle
Of this influence extending, A most encouraging
indication, that eventually the principles of right
cousness shall triumph until they cover the earth,
even as the waters do the seas.
For the particulars we must refer our readers
to the LiLcrator. But we copy the introduction
and the conclusion of Miss Weston's Report.
The condition of the slave population of this
country is one that cannot stir too deeply the
depths of every human heart but it should so stir
them, that the result should be not mere passion
ate emotion, but an abiding conviction of duty.
For, in the long warfare Which the AbolitiOnists
must wage, its continuance known to Onnipoteuce
only, it is in such conviction alone that efcctual
support can be found. When we have arrived
ut the knowledge, that We have very little to do
with the question of slavery, except rs a matter of
personal OF individual concern, we have gone far
towards simplifying the problem of the extent of
the claims OF our own conscientious obligations.
1t Mood not lie our first or most important query,
what the nation should do, or what Congress should
do, or what the Church should do; but, having
made that dread appeal, always recognized and
answered alike by conscience and the Creator of
conscience, Lord, what wilt thou have me to dol?
we shall find sufficient light shining around us to
indicate plainly our course. III we have, in re-
ality, no fellowship with such an unfruitful work
of dark ess as is slavery, We shall not pretend to
have, but shall make ourselves free from every
organization, civil or eccleastical, that lends it
support or countenance. Though in the battle Of
the Dictionaries, we take part On the conservative
side, we must, for once, separate our practice from
our precept and though the word 'Come-outer'
may never have been baptized in the pure well OF
English undctiled, shall adopt it proudly into our
vocabulary, when it exprcsses'the act of secession
from n Government that is barbarous, anda Church
that is Anti-Christ.
While accepting this as their rule of duty, the
Aboliti9nist can afford to wait and be patient.
having performed their part, they may safely trust
to those righteous laws that govern the moral uni
verse. Just in proportion as they carry their pin
ciples into daily and uncompromising practice,
shall they see the glorious and fondly h~opcd-for
results. We all testify, in words, to the mighty
power Of Truth and yet how long a time clapses,
before the statement becomes an entire verify.
even to ourselves! We apprehend the idea so
dimly, we grasp it so imperiectly. We declare, in
the tritc and beautiful lines of Bryant,-trite be-
cause beautiful
Truth, crushed TO earth, shall rise again
The eternal years Of God are hers;'
and yet our hearts die within us, when we see the
city of the Pilgrims give back ANTHONY BURNS to
the lingering torturcs of a North Carolina planta-
ton; and we are tempted almost to forget that
overruling Providence which can make not on V
the wrath of man, but his cruelty, and avarice,
and cowardice, and low ambition, aad selfish weak
ness, instrumental in its unfolding Of Justice and
Mercy. 1t is b because Il full solution of this prob
lem is reserved to the eternal years. that we are
so fearful and faithless. In reality, the moral laws
of the creation are as sure and steadfast as are
its physical ones. But the first are matters of
immediate sight, and the others Of n faith that
mist stretch into eternity. The seed that was
planted last spring has yielded its harvest. We
never doubted that it would be thus, for we were
reasoning from the experience of ages. We have
seen that seed time and harvest nevercease. Alike
in certainty are the laws that govern the spiritual
world, but widely diverse in the time occupied for
their manifestation. Not only magma est reritas,
but 'muraltJH.' Commonplace and insufficient
as this may sound in the cars of those who have
relied for success upon every thing but the simple
truth, it will not seem thus to the Abolitionists
Examples might be quoted all over the land, but
it is with Boston that we are now to concern our
s.ne s.. IIer Representatives in the person OF
SAMUEL ELLIOT may vote for the Fugitive Slave
Bill-ANTHoNY Burns may be carried back into
lifelong bondage-the man by whose connIvancc
the act was done shall be reelected Mayor of Bos.
ton-leading doctors of Divinity, like Messrs.
Lord, BlaSden, and Adams, shall be seen dishonor-
ing the Christianity they profess; by claiming it
as the ally of slayery-and yet our trust in the
truth does not fail for, in the midst of all, we,
become aware Of that awakening Of the public
conscience, of that softening of the popular heart,
to which the efforts of the Abolitionist have been
so long tending.
The experience of many years has taught us tc
regard the ANTI-SLANERY BAZAAR as a sor,
of moral thermometer, by which the popular TEN.
perature on the question of slavery may be in
some measure tested. We do not speak of tho
pecuniary result merely, but include in our obser
vation the number of visitants, the prevailing tone
of feeling, the amount Of kindly interest, and thu
desire for information generally touching the plans
and purposes of the Anti-Slayery party.
In conclusion the Report adds:
We never saw more clearly that, in some mos,
important respects, our cause is oNWARD,--nevel
was more fully aware of the beneficial effects o
this annual commingling of so many persons, Of
such varied positions, opinions and sympathies
all united in the pursuit of one great and magnif
cent end. The money that we raise is only hal
! the benefit that accrues to the slave on this occa
sion. The Bazaar is, in itself, an instrumentalit,
that arrests the attention of the careless, and soft
ems the heart of the selfish. Whence all this toll
r and trouble, and care, on the part of so man,
persons of different nations, occupations anC
crecds, continued with unfagging devotion iron
year to year? This spectacle speaks Louder thar
words, and we know that it is by this means tina
he'frst interest of many now active friends hav,
> been awakened.
For many years, a portion of the evening O
the Bazaar has been occupied by public speaking
but circumstances, unnecessary to enumerate, rem
dering it this year impossible, with one exception
e On the last evening of the year, Miss Lucy SToNl
addressed a large audience, with much pathos ant
beauty.
We trust that another year may witness n deep
er and more solemn devotion, on our part, to thu
interests of this great question. Very few see
still fewer actually feel, its momentous Importance
4 Even in the minds of good men til placed on
level with the questions of Temperance, Ere,
Trade, the Rights of Women, the progress o
Catholicism, Emigration, Metaphysical Theories
e or the nearness of the Spiritual World, and a va
;. riety of topics, which, however increasing and inn
y p%ortant in themselves, are as the dust on the bal
ance, in the comparison with the inquiry-Shal
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