Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-05
THE TWENTY. FOURTH.
NATIONAL
ANTI-S LAVERY BAZAAR

The undersigned again call on all interested in
their cause.-the cause of Freedom, SO deeply
important, not only to three millions of Ameri.
can slaves, but to the American nation and to
entire humanity immediate aid, by contri-
buttons of money, and materials, and by pur-
chase at the next Bazaar; to be opened in
Boston,
OK TIE 18TH OF DECEMBER.
Contribution of money at the present time
will enable members of the Committee now in
Europe to add to the attractions of the exhibition
still further, and, in consequence, to increase the
funds which are to be expended, as heretofore
by the American Anti ,Slavery Society, in awak.
ening the whole country, through its newspapers,
books and various agencies, to the necessity Of
extiuguishing slavery.
Our principle is TOO we'll known to need moro
than a mere statement. 1t is, immediate, uncon-
ditional emancipation, without repatriation, and
10y peaceful means. From q growing conviction
of the justice and necessity of this work, for the
good and honor Of oil concerned, every measure
possible to be taken will inevitably spring without
delay. Our funds, therefore, will be devoted to
the primary work Of arousing and engaging the
public mind which, as fast as it awnkens,
never fails to find a way to work its will-through
church action, by agitation and w~ithdrawGl,-by
state action, through the customary political chan
nels, or by the profounder policy of creating 9th
ers,-by legislative and judicial changes,-by
individual efforts in the m~anumission of slaves
and the protection Of fugitives,-by economical
measures prompted by the greater advantages Of
free labor, by humane feelings creating a prefer
ence for its products.
What we ask of the citizens around US, Just
awakening to some one or other of tho manifold
aspects of this great question, is, to enable US to
continue the use Of the means that have proved
so eficacious in their own case. and to sustain the
primary cause of whatever Anti.Slayery effects
they observe and desire to promote.
Let those who labor for an Anti Slavery nation,
al and State administration, furnish voters with
the only sufficient motive to any Anti.Slavery Of
fort, by working with US, SO to excite !has laSe of
liberty, that every man shall take the risk of
trampling down slavery wherever it meets him.
Let them that pity the hunted fugitive, who
sees in every Northern man q %betrayer, bound to
that base function by the great organic law of his
country, take the means most ~efectuGl to turn the
b~etrayer into the protector, by helping Us every
where to awaken q stronger ointment than COM
passion for the millions who cannot fly OF whose
case il was 80 truly said by n New England poet
Of the earlier time before school-books were ex-
~purgated by slavery
Their wrongs compassion cannot speak,
Let all take warning to cooperate with US, from
those earlier days when slavery, instead Of dying
out, as prophesied, began to grow strnnger,
because there was then no such fountain
head of moral power as we commend to the
attention of the whole land today.
We do not make this appeal in q sectional spir-
it as Northern 5orn, interfering with matters that
do not concern us. We make it in grateful ac-
acknowledgement Of the benefits we have received
from the anti,slavery cause, desiring to communi-
cate them to others. We have all been connect,
ed personally with the system of slavery. One
has known the evil power of its money temptations
another has felt its political despotism another
its perverting social influence another its cor
rupting ecclesiastical bondage another yet has
been identified by Southern birth and education
with the shareholders, and sustained the legal re-
lation of ownership to the slaves ; while not I'M
frequently among our most efficient members have
been the wives of slaves, driven from US by the
operation of laws from which we cannot protect
them, and which make us liable to ruinous fine
and crushing imprisonment, as they have done
our associates erswhile. But we all, with one &C.
cord, testify to the truth of the anti'slavery prin-
ciples, ard entreat the aid of all whom this ap.
peal reaches, to deliver the country from such a
despotism, by their PRONUNCIATION.
Rsy~THE LIBERTY BELL will be published
as usual and we entreat all our friends who
have heretofore aided US by literary or pccuniary
contributions, to let us hear from them once again,
as speedily as possible.
aea. Our friends in Europe will not fail to
take notice that the Bazaar is open a aceek earlier