Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29
TWENTY SECOND
NATIONAL ANT1-SLAVERY BAZAAR d
TO BE HELD IN BOSTON, MASS,
.ERiNG THE CURIsTNAS NEEK ~ ls69


This annual effort, having Tor its end the Aboli-
lion of american SlGTaFy, has been so long before
the eyes of the community Shat we feel prolonged
explanation in respect 10 IL unnecessary. A very
simple statement will be sufficient for our purpose.
6ohyihccd as we arc that Sitvoty is a sin and II
crime everywhere and under ali ciicamstanccs
that all completely or connivonce with it implies
moral guilt just in proportion 10 the extent of the
sanction given, that consequently all political 2nt
especially all religious fellowship with such n sys
tenn of denominations is cminently criminal ans
dangerous, it is our endenvor to promulgalo these
sentiments, so FIR MS 1t MAY be in our power
throughout the whole length and breadth Of th5
land.
We propose to do this through the medium O.
Newspapers, Lecturers and Tracts, and We CALI
upon all who fear God or regard Man TO give ia
their sympathy and cooperation. The country Is
stirred as it never yet has been, bnt oil, how inad'
equately for the accomplishment of the great work
that lies before it, and, in too many eases, 10y wlae
poor md insufficient motives.
Should American Slavery be abolished through
the force OF moral power, a noblcr example Will
have been given to the world than any prcvipua
age has ever Witnessed. 1t is in the Colonial pos.
sessions of Monarchial Governments that Slavery
has been abolished. We are laboring for its OK
t%inction in the midst of a great nation, wlero it ID
enwovcn with every fibre of commercial; political
and religious life, and. where, with unimportaus
exceptions, every man is q voter. We DO not alluda
to these facts with atty discouraging purpose, but
only thai we may declare with convincing earnest
ness the necessity there exists for the PRONUNCIATION,
not of any halfway testimonies or diluted doctrine
but for the truth in its entire efficiency, " without
concealment and without compromise"
This great mission the American Anti.Slavcr5
Society alone discharges. and therefore we cooYc.
rate with it. Her members refuse to be concerned
in the administration Of n government cemcntcd
with the blood of slaves, or to recognize as churchcs
of Christ the apostate ecclesiastical bodies of our
country, who consider as goods and chattcls per
sonal, subject to all the fluctuations that mark 9th
err property, the souls for which they profess 20
= believe lie died. This is the Treason and this tfe
Infdelity that SO convulscs our country. Whether
that country be destroyed or saved, we chcorfully
leave the character of the American Abolitionists
to the verdict of coming ages, believing that it will
then appear that Loyalty consisted in adhesion &c
. Righteousness and Faith, in tie declaration tina
$ the Affairs of the Lord were not even as those o
Moloch.
We solicit correspondence, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
q from all friends of the Slave, whether at home or
in Europe, and we pledge ourselves to employ most
d 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.
Communications may Be addressed to the Com
mittcc at 81 Cornhill, roston, Miss d 10 l3s
, Nassau street, New York.
: Anne Warren Weston, Mary Gray Chapman,