Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-08
TWENTY SECOND
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAYERY BAZAAR.
TO De HELD IN BOSTON, MASS,
DURING THE CIPISTNiS UEEK or 1855.
TWENTY -SECONL

This annual effort, having for its end the Aboli
ton of American Slavery, has been SO long befor
the eyes Of the community that we feel prolonge,
explanation in respect to it unnecessary. A yer,
simple statement will be sufficient for our purpose
Convinced as we are that Slavery is a sin and {
crime everywhere and under all circumstances
that all completely or connivance with it nipple,
moral guilt just in proportion TO the extent of the
sanction given, that consequently all political 2nC
especially all religious fellowship with such a svs
TEN of denominations is cminently criminal anC
dangerous, it is our endeavor to promulgate these
sentiments, so far as it may be in our power
throughout the whole length and breadth Of the
land.
We propose to do This through the medium Of
Newspapers, Lecturers and Tracts, and We call
upon all who fear God or regard Man to give us
their sympathy and cooperation. The country is
stirred as it never yet has been, bnt oil, how mad
%equately for the accomplishment Of the'great work
that lies before it, and, in too many cases, by what
poor and insufficient motives.
Should American Slavery be abolished through
the force of moral power, a noblcr example viii
have been given to the world tEin any previous
age has ever witnessed. 1t is in the Colonial pos.
sessions of Monarchial Governments that Slavery
has been abolished. Ue are labcring for its cz-
%tinctiou in the midst Of a great nation, where it is
enwoyen with every fibre of commercial, political
and religious life, and where, with rnimportant
exceptions, every man is a voter. We do not allude
to these facts with any discouIaging purpose, hut
only thai we may declare with convincing earnest
ness the necessity there exists for the PRONUNCIATION,
not Of any half way testimonies or diluted doctrine,
bat for the truth in its entire efficiency, without
concealmcnt and without compromise"
This great mission the American Ant;-S~lavcry
Society alone discharges. and therefore We co-opc-
rate with it. Her members refuse to be concerned
in the administration Of a government comentcd
with the blood Of slaves, or 30 recognize as churches
Of Christ the apostate ecclesiastical bodies Of ON
country, who consider as goods and chattels per
soual, subject to all the fluctuations that mark 9th
err property, the souls for which they profess to
believe lie died. This Is the Treason and this the
InGdel.ty that 80 c~onyulses our country. Whether
that country be destroyed or saved, we cheerfully
leave the character Of the American Abolitionists
to the verdict Of coming ages, believing that it will
Jhen appear that Loyalty consisted in adhesion to
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the Affairs Of the Lord were not even as those Of
Moloch.
Nesolioit correspondence, counsel and assistance
from all friends of the Slave, whether at home or
in Europe, and we pledge ourselves to employ mos
conscicntiously whatever Of influence or money
may be committed to our hands, and to make faith.
full account for the same at the close OF our under
taking.
Communication may he addressed to the Com.
mittce at p Cornhill, Boston, Mass, or to 1873,
Nassau street, New York.