Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-17
PROGRESS OF THE CAUSE IN MAssA-
CHUSETTS.

the General Agent of the Massachusetts, Anti.Sla.
very Society, read at its recent anniversary by
Samuel May, Jr.:
ain such circumstances, IL became desirable last
year that some one should prepare for the annual
meeting of this Society at least a statement Of its
operations during the year previous and it seemed
to belong to no one so properly to do it, as to the
General Agent of the Society. BY him such a
statement was then made. The return of another
anniversary calls for a similar statement of the So
ciety's doings for the year 1854, which he now
proceeds to give.
In every way, in which its treasury and the
agents in its service could be fightfully employed,
the Society has been steadily laboring during the
year past. Immediately after the last annual
meeting, it undertook anew the work of preaching
the Gospel of Anti-Slavery, and of calling the peo-
pie of New England to repentance of their sinful
completely in the bondage of their brethren, the
three million slaves in this boosted Christian Re-
public. 1t has had, for another year q band of
tried and faithful agents who have gone forth,
fearing no sect, or party, or man-having no self,
fish aims to promote-and resolved only to pro.
claim the truth, with regard to this oppressive peo-
pie, and their victims in slavery.
"To carry forward this work the Society has had
the funds raised and pledged at the last annual
meeting, together with those raised and pledged
$50 fur as paid in at the New England A. S. Con-
%vention, held in May last. Being entrusted with
the expenditure Of the latter, the Society has felt
its obligation to expend them in part in other of
the New England States, besides Massachusetts I:
and has endeavored to discharge its duty in that
respect.
The following agents have lecn in the Soci-
ety's service during the past year: Stephen S.
Foster, Abby Kelly Foster, Andrew 7. Foss, Chas.
c.. Burleigh. Charles L. Remond, Nathaniel II.
Whiting, Lewis Ford, and Sallic Holly. Also,
Rev. Elnathan Davis, of Fitcbburg, and Rev. E.
A. Stockman, of Cummington, as Local Agents.
NJ and Mrs. Foster were in the State durinE
the entire year, though not able to devote their
whole time to the direct service of the cause
They have attended a large number of meetings in
Essex, Barnstable, Nantucket, Bristol, and Wor-
cester Counties, and in the States of Connecticut
and Rhode Island. In the early autumn, Mrs.
Foster accepted the appointment of General Finan-
clal Agent of the American Anti Slavery Society,
and, In that capacity, as well as that of a lecturer,
has rendered very efficient aid to the Society and
the cause. Mr.. Foster during the autumn set on
foot a series Of weekly Anti-Slavery meetings in
the city of Worcester, the place of his residence.
To the revival of auti-slayery feeling, caused by
those meetings, is to be attributed in a good degree
that most praiswortLy and honorable deed,-the
expulsion of the kidnapper Asa o. Bdtman from
that city,-and the not less honorable fact that the
base man was shielded from all bodily harm and
safely conducted beyond the city's limits, by those
very men whose detestation of his occupation was
the strongest and the most undoubtedly Mr..
Foster himself, Rev. 7. w. Hi5giuson, G.. F. Uoar,
Esq, Joseph A. Rowland, and others. The pros
ecution set on foot against Mr.. Foster and others
by certain miserable tools of the Slave Power, for
the obvious purpose of gaining favor with the
present National Administration appears to have
signally failed,-the Grand Jury of the County
having refused to frl bills of Indictment against
them, except in one or two instances for simple
assault, of which the parties will very probably be
on trial.
"Rey. Andrew 7. Foss was an agent of this So
ciety for eight months,-from Jan. 1stto Sept. LIST.
with the exception of a few weeks in which he
was engaged as an agent of the Old Colony A. S.
Society. He was actively engaged during that
time in various parts of the State, viz, in Bristol,
Essex, Plymouth, Worcester, and Barnstable {
Counties, and also in the States of New Hamp- {
Maine, Connecticut New London County,
and Rhode Island. Soon after the 1st of Septem-
he accepted m agency appointment of the
Anti-Slavery Society, and went to Mich
lgan, in which State and in Indiana he has contin-
ned laboring earnestly and very accoptably to the
present time, and will continue probably some
mOnths loprnr Mr. Eoes g oo olIo 49,. II
speaker, and everywhere commends the
cause to his herers.
Charles G. Burleigh was an agent of this Soci- |
'iety for about two months in the early part of the
year, working in Norfolk, Middlesex, Essex, Ply
mouth, and Worcester Counties. Since that time.
le has been engaged, mostly as an agent of the t
American Society, in labors in Ohio and other |
States and at PRESENT. is in Pennsylvania. !
70 Mr.. BurleiGh's noble fidelity to our cause, to his
spirit, and to his great ability as a lee t
urer and advocate in every good cause, no testi-
nony of ours is needed at this time. 1t
Charles L. Remond has been from time to time i
IN agent of this Society during the year, and also {
If the American Society. His health, however, 6
We regret to say, has been so much impaired and ,
80 precarious that we have been, to a considerable 5
extent, disappointed in the aid we had hoped to
'eceive from him. His restoration to health, and y
his renewed ability to labor in a cause with which
ne has so long been connected, and which he is so
qualified to maintain, must be an object of the
sincere desire of us all. a
Nathaniel II. Whiting and Lewis Ford were t
FOR a short time associated in lccturing labors as
agents of this Society. The feeble health of the T
former, and the numerous private avocations of
he latter, greatly abridged their term of service.
"Sallie Holly renewed an engagement with this |
Society as a lecturing agent at the commencement
# the winter, since which she has been occupied |
n the n%ortherly p~rt of Worcester county, and in
ome adjoining towns of Middlesex county. Miss
Holly is everywhere q most welcome advocate of j
he cause, and is interesting in it a class of persons Y
Who have long been Indifferent and dead to its
1o;n,a !