Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14
THE TwENTY.THIRD
NATIONAL ANTI.sLAvERY BAZAAR.

Inc last report OF this most ohicient nuxllary OF,
the Ansi.Slavery cause occupies between FIVE and
six columns Of the Anti.Slavory Standard. 1t is
prepared by Mrs, Marin Weston Chapman whose
energys and devotion have contributed SO largely
70 the success Of the enterprise, since its FIRST com
nencement
The receipts Of this Twenty.third Anti-Slavery
Bazaar Of 1867 are S., $50 an advance on the
most successful previous year Of several hundred
dollars.
Thus in spite Of bad weather, m insufficient
hall, and q recent election, the American Anu
Slavery Society is sustained more strongly than
ever, 10 lead through the coming year tho van of
that national movement against slavery which it
began a quarter VI u century ago.
We rejoice. as afotetimc, wishing it were q thou
sand fold gresict, tn place the whole result OF our
effort AZ the disposition OF that Society. Not be-
cause il is the drst movement in chronological or
der nor because it is our Sooiety-successfui be-
you'd hope or precedent. Such reasons are inian'
tile, senile, partisan, scctarlan, selfish, But we
raise for the American AntiSiayery Society this
insufficient Offering of all we can earnest VI more
horeafter), because, %trampling down oil ,empta-
tion, il alone seeks not itself because 1t alone Is
without prejudice of race, eect, sex or cline; be-
because it alone has. en- the subject OF slavery, the
TRUTH tho whole truth. and nothing but the truth,
and is not afraid or ashamed 10 proclaim it, az oi
all things most precious, at every risk and cost. MS
only able to make free because it alone, seeing
the necessity of tolerance as the handmald OF
truth, and respecting the unity Of mans nature,
beholds with Joy his heart awakening his intellect
90 the search of all reality and the r%octiiying OF
all wrong because it alone, of all the institutions
Of our land, has no union with shareholders be-
cause IL alone, leading the world in its method
by centuries of advance. counts slave and master
rs equal, aud frowns alike on bloody despotism
and bloody insurreotion because il is what a
fighting, siaveholding Church and State pretend to
be; because it has tho intellect and the heart to
honor itself by Identification with the man whose
great thought and sublime self-sacrifce gave it ex-
istence; whom Shareholders and their Northern
slaves insult and calumniate whom bold foes &C.
knowledge ms the only type of an Abolitiorist.
and timid friends deny at convenience. while
striving to profit by of whom Republicans, borne
into public notice by the movement ne awakened.
are yet ashamed and afraid, while so dull, that aE.
ter seeing for twenty-five years Of anarchy the
standing offer of n Southern Legislature of SIS 600
for his head, thes'nro startled that the heads Of.
Senators are not safe.
In fine. we pay our mite into the treasury of the
American Society. because it alone advocates i'm
mediate liberty for TIE slaves; because il alone
never postpones its honorable and holy purpose
till after election, or after ordination. or after to-
morrow but proclaims no,C as the time-if the
United States Of America are ever to become 9th.
or than the scoif and stumbling-bluck of the world
that they arc this day.
And how ia this money to be expended p we
were often asked by practical ladies and gentle
men, taking their first look at tho Bazaar. We
know you VIII reply IN aooilshlhg eiavery Sut
IN wnat shape 40 YOUR american Anu,0'"'c!y so
eietys oliIs come IN Nis a IauuaV'e cTlIoSnSi
ALLOW US 10 sehu 10 your a"ureSs lhe r"'lona'
Anti Slavery Standard" our weekly newspaper.
Terms 81 90 per anum-published in New York as
the official organ of the Society. Besides being
one OF the best papers IN the world IN a Literary
sense, 1t is the only absolutely tree organ OF an as
sociauon'" as me L'oeiator Is Vi N lnulVluuSi,m
You know now many printers ana paper'makers
Dliis are paio LOT tne organ OF your sec' VI parry
we pay the same ior mankind. oniy, as we nn'e
this unpopular o%bJectln vlew' the anoiition Oh sia,
very we cannot &c. r,cn as we cou,o ny seq "
party but our h'gh nope Is 10 see the cause EtoM
at our expense. 1t would make us rich IL we
could consent TO be mean 100 ana man"ae !, 10 !.
men 40 whose seconuary P'r'it J. ie"p upo" ID
Politician IKE ana instead OF carrying ~ ohwaiuu
70 IT'S goai, be carried oy 10 ~ yours, nnu ?ou WV
out commit 0 eomhon "a "no"se "ua 20 "
eseape all tehsure. Dut AM 1i"Nei! men ~
hel'ner peru tneir c"a'"oteis U nc"oe'y ~ -
~. nor Tor common sense oy assertion ag".nSt i c
the aiternati!e 9e1"re MIN WIZ ' 4 INV WI"
gress OF tne oni'eu suites u
Dut we nave o'her eAPenees t"H v. pa
Per ana pruning ineSe ENSURE w eIreSS ""u
70 SUSTAIN 20 onJ J'en P'eS rs l' .I,;.;nO
common gratincatnh put We hu.e II ":u
tee sauslnctIon o pdSt"S Il eApe"ses n' &C. =
eiehtly enough IL Is true oi { an' um vi "
cnar"c'eI' eloquenoe w pow ,"as 'M' -, n
very inuu Is y No'ny y" .S"so' ~ 49, s
degrade 'heu' NJ any Pricp lnl' us pIe"ono'S, no
stateshen' lus social ornaments !hey "o "'e
ntiy empioyeu IN surviving oy ie"1'n9 w 'enwv"t
ance, to avert the consequences OF It's SINS inuS
we secure Free Speech TO our country pceS Tue
world know how little an Aboiitionist can iVo on
80 little 'thatf whoie region can De ehign'eheu 'oi
So,VOo. nave any OF you ever t,ieu 70 es'in'a'e
tho moral he'Ght 10 which tne puonc mlhu may oe
raised ny the JudiciouS application Oh no greater
weight than that!
In proportion to the means entrusted 10 US, W.
change mems minds. Having aone inns, we ma.
safely leave II TO them 10 cnahge thelr representa-
hves' which,! with ?ronigate ana corrupt eApenu'
ture' they VIII not lall AZ iength 70 40. -.
mus we were qnesnohea ana hearI anu W
nsd .ne sa'sS,"ct"n !, seeihH u nemiy """ nn
cd VISITORS LOT tue hrst u'ue IN theIr Nes; ~"
more thah a year a"eau' Nay they complete '1e'
glance AZ me lutnre Dy actng IN the present!
Ii we might Mi up our small space win a re
port OF the conversation AT the fair, much iSh