Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24
TWENTY SECOND
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY BAZAAR.
TO BE HELD IN BOSTON, MASS,
DURING TIE CHRLSTMlS WEEK or 1855

This annual effort, having for its end The Adolf
ton Of American Slavery, has been so long before
the eyes of the community that we feel prolonged
explanation in respect to it unnecessary. A yer,
simple statement will be sufficient for our purpose
Convinced as we are that Slavery is q sin and
crime every where and under all circumstance
that all completely or conniyOnce with it implie
moral guilt just in proportion TO the extent of tn,
sanction given, that consequently all political ant
especially all religious fellowship with such a sys
tenn Of denominations is eminently criminal and
dangerous, it is our endeavor to promulgate these
sentiments, SO far rs it may be in our power
throughout the whole length and breadth of tn,
land.
We propose to do this through the medium OF
Newspapers, Lecturers and Tracts, ard we call
upon all who fear God or regard Man TO give Us
their sympathy and cooperation. The country is
stirred MS it never yet has been, bnt or 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 10 abolished through
The force Of moral power, n noblcr example viii
have been given to the world than any previous
age has ever witnessed. 1t is in the Colonial pos
sessions of Monarchial Governments that Slavery
has been abolished. We are laboring for its ex-
tinction in the midst of a great nation, where it is
cnwoven with every fibre of commercial, political
and religious life, and where, with unimportant
exceptions, every man is a voter. We do not allude
to these facts with any discouraging purpose, but
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,
but for the truth in its entire efficiency, without
concealment and without compromise"
This great mission the American Anti Slavery
Society alone discharges, and therefore we co-oYe.
rate with it. Her members refuse to be concerned
in the administration of a government cemented
with the blood of slaves, or 10 recognize ms churches
of Christ the apostate ecclesiastical bodies OF our
country, who consider as goods and chattels per-
sonal, subject to all the fluctuations that mark 9th
er property. the souls for which they profess to
believe He died. This IS the Treason and this the
Infdel.ty that so convulses 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
then appear that Loyalty consisted in adhesion to
Righteousness and Faith, in tie declaration thai
the Affairs of the Lord were not even as those Of
Moloch.
W%esolicit correspondence. counsel and assistance
from all friends of tho Slave, whether at home or
in Europe, and we pledge ourselves to employ mos,
conscientiously 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.
Communications may be addressed to the Com.
mittee at 81 Cornhill, Boston, Mass, or to l3S,
Nassau street, New York.
Anne Warren Weston, Mary Gray Chapman,
Mary May, Elizabeth Gay,
Anne Greene Phillips, Henrietta Sargent,
Louisa Loring, Sarah r.. Nav,
Eliza Lee Follen, Caroline Weston,
Helen L. Garrison, Susan G. Cabot,
Sarah S. Russell. Mary Ii. jackson,
Maria Weston Chapman, Sarah B. Shaw,
Francis Mary Robbins, Lydia G. Parker,
So,ob II Snntbwick TI;,o T. EAlr