Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-16
A THOUGHT FOR CONSIDERATION.


A THOUGHT FOR CONSIDERATION.
There are two periods in the existance Of re.
form papers when they need the especial support
of the friends of the cause they advocate. The
first is at their inauguration. Then, when they
take their stand against wrong. when they lend
their aid to draw the lines deeply which divide
Truth from Error, they must receive from their
friends the encouragement of their sympathy and
cooperation, including, of Course, that material
aid 80 necessary to establish a good und erstanding
and maintain pleasant relations with the printers,
and paper makers. And this is the time they gen.
orally receive the support they require.
But by and by community becomes partially con.
verted, the g~rowlings Of the opposition measure.
bly, do away, here and there is seen a patch of
blue sky through the rifted clouds, and ~reformers
begin to congratulate themselves upon having
done a good work. And now has arrived the
second period when they need the general and es.
pecial support of their friends, which they too of.
ten fail to receive. Very many think they did in
me start oil that can reasonably be required of
them, and now If the paper is sustained it must
be, either by the heavy sacrifices Of n few indi-
viduals' or by the charity-like support of the half
converts 1t has begun to harden into proper form.
Anti-slavery papers of the D.sunion type have
ALWAYS had a hard struggle for existance Being
more intimately acquainted with the history of the
BugIe than of any other paper advocating the
same principles. we refer to it for illustration. pre-.
missing, however, that the history and experience
vi Its struggles for support are, in the main, the
experience of them all. The Bugle never boasted
of a very extensive subscription list, and its pub.
fishers never anticipated n good time coming when
they could talk with complacency of our hundred
thousand subscribers Such nm expectation
would be proof positive of insanity on the part of
the entire Executive Committee, if not Of the
whole society. But the time has been when
its list was much larger than as present, and
that too, at a time when opposition to its princi.
pies was far more rampant than now. But MS
active opposition died away, nctivo support also de.
creased, until the question is now mooted wheth-
er it would be better for its publishers to compel n
few friends to volunteer large contributions for its
support, or to beg of the half converted n charita.
BILE donation to supply the deficiency occasioned
BY the neglect of those who fully adopt its princi-
Piles, but not to tho amount Of any active co.opera.
,ion.
Ten years since, the choice in papers was be-
tween anti-slavery AID pro-slavcry Journals, and
many whose interest in the great question OF the
day was but just awakened, preferred, of course,
the former. But since then, anti slavery-ex-
cept of the most ultra kind has become more
popular, and he who is in a transition state can
be measured and filled with a paper, that will suit
him as nicely as the coat he orders from his tailor.
| For tho NatIa1ist phnao 49, =. lu.AI -. !
very wise. there is the Northe n Independent, for
the Baptist. the american Missionary, for the
Presbyterian. the Independent, and for politicians,
the Tribune, Times and Era, with others like unto
them. These papers supply the wants of all who
are not Disunionists and have consequently caused
some diminution in the subscription lists of the
Liberato,, standard ard Bugle. We are not sorry
that these papers are influenced by the leaven Of
abolitionism on the contrary, we rejoice that such
IL the fact, and our joy would be exceeding great
had the whole lump Secome leavened. But we
refer to this fact, which in itself is hopeful, and
indicative of great progress, as one which shows
the necessity of Disunionists doing more for D.su-
Mon papers.
We think the supporters of the American Anti.
Slavery Society, may in all modesty, assume that
it is owing mainly, and if net directly, then indi.
rectly, to the labors of that Society and its auxil.
iaries, that the public sentiment of the country in
relation to slavery has been awakened that SO
many are beginning to be prepared for the ap.
preaching contest, AMI that the papers referred to
above have been enabled to take position in advance
OF that they occupied years ago. To enable them to
now stand where they are, and in the future to adj
vance yet farther, it is necessary to give a gener.
Gus support to the Liberator, Standard and Buqlc.
We trust our readers are prepared to III AXE some
practical comments upon what we have said, and
rather than have them at any loss what to do,
cheerfully furnish them the following memoran.
dunn -
Hem.--lf my subscription is in arrears, I will
at once remit the amount to the publisher, and ply
for at least one year in advance.
lem. If | can possibly subscribe to all the
Disunion papers, l will do so, and will exert nv
influence to have others 60 and do likewise ia
whole, or in in part. B.