Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-03
TWENTY SECOND
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY BAZAAR,
TO BE HELD IN BOSTON, MASS,
DURING THE CHRLSTMAS WEEK OF 1855

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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 very
simple statement will be sufficient for our purpose.
Convinced as we are that Slavery is q sin and n
crime everywhere and under all circumstances
that all completely or conniyance with it implies
moral guilt just in proportion to the extent of the
sanction given, that consequently all political and
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 as it may be in our power,
throughout the whole length and breadth of the
land.
We propose TO do this through the medium o
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 OF, how mad
equately for the accomplishment of h e'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 will
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. Ne are laboring for its ez-
~tinction in the midst Of a great nation, where it is
enwoven 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 that we may declare with convincing earnest
ness the necessitythere 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 Slavery
Society alone discharges, and therefore we co-ope
rate with it. Her members refuse to be concerned
in the administration of a government cemented
with the blood of slaves, or to recognize as 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
err property, the souls for which they profess t.
believe He died. This Is the Treason and this til,
Infdel.ty that so conyulses our country. Whethe,
that country be destroyed or saved, we cheerful,
leave the character of the American Abolitionist
to the verdict of coming ages, believing that it will
then appear that Loyalty consisted in adhesion t
Righteousness and Faith, in the declaration tina
the Affairs of the Lord were not even as those
Moloch.
Wesolicit correspondence, counsel and assistance
from all friends of tho Slave, whether at home o
in Europe, and We pledge ourselves to employ mos
conscientiously whatever of influence or none,
may be committed to our hands, and to make faith
full account for the same at the close of our under
taking.
Communication may be addressed to the Con
mittee at 81 Cornhill, Boston, Mass, or to l3I
Nassau street, New York.
Anne Warren Weston, Mary Gray Chapman,
Mary May, Elizabeth Gay,
Anne Greene Phillips, Henrietta Sargent,
Louisa Loring, Sarah X. May,
Eliza Lee Pollen, Caroline Weston,
Helen e.. Garrison, Susan G. Cabot,
Sarah S. Russell, Mary Ii. jackson,
Maria Weston Chapman, Sarah b. Shaw,
Francis Mary Robbins, Lydia G.. Parker,
Sarah H.. Southwick, Eliza i. Eddy,
Mary Wiley, Evalina A. S. Smith,
Abby Francis, Ann Rebecea Bramhal
Anna Shaw Green, Elizabeth Won Arnim,
Amy NJ, Remond, Augusta King,