Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-24
Anti Bnsle,
SALEM, OHIO, OCTOBER "a, 1857.
TO THE READERS OF THE BU9LE.

DEAR FRIENDS: A word of conversation with
you individually. Do you believe the Busle to be
faithfully and ably conducted Is it an impor-
tant, an absolutely essential fundamentally in the
progress Of the cause of anti-slavery ? 1t is be.
lieved that every intelligent and di.intere,ted
reader of the paper will feel compelled to answer
both these questions afirmatively. Then have
you considered the responsibility which this state
of facts imposes upon yourselves? Have you
the ability to pay its subscription annually and
yet read it without a~ffording it support2 Have
you neighbors or acquaintance with whom you
might exert sufficient influence to induce them to
become readers and subscribers, and yet whom
you have failed to endeavor to influence Then
have you, whoever you may be and however cir
cumstanced, failed in your duty and prepared
yourselves to bear the condemnation 'Inasmuch
as ye did it not, for the sake of these the least of
my brethren, ye did it not unto me-" Every posi-
BILE fundamentally by every individual capable of
employing it is needed for the overthrow of the
dire system of oppression against which We labor
and every person capable of lifting so much as a
fin gers weight of the heavy burden who fails to do
it, assumes a fearful responsibility.
A few of the earnest friends of the slave amids.
shCit INV aco'o ~ ANo SouSSt ~ NO" hNNN'N'
ing industriously to increase the circulation of the
Bugle. Their success is not commensurate with
their efforts, but still sufficient to prove that a great
gain to the cause of the slave may be wrought in
that direction. Now you are the persons who
really ought to be performing this labor. first be-
cause it is a duty you owe to the slave, in working
out your own salvation, and next because you are
more competent than any other to do it. You
know your neighbors and friends, and therefore
know to whom to apply with hope of success and
also the argument best suited to use in each indi
viduals case, to fix his attention and compel hi'
!, consideration of the subject. You have the oppor
tunity to return again and again to the attemp
when you have failed in the first instance rhici
: travelling anti-slavory agents have not and besides
! you see many whom they cannot, that might b
e induced to take the paper. 1t is in your power t.
use a personal influence which they cannot, in
great lumber Of instances, and for this persona
Influence with friends, as for every other talent il
your keeping you are surely responsible.
Now is a most propitious season for you'to worl
diligently in this matter. A bountiful harvest
and a sure reward for all kinds of labor, enable
1 every person DESTROYS of doing 30. easily to &C
;, quire tho means if not already possessed.
= Now reader, whatever be your condition, age
sex or color-this appeal of the slave for your al
in this manner, comes home to you. Which vii
y you choose? To reap the reward Of we'll doing
, or take the consequences of the neglect of a
= obvious duty Ponder we'll. 1t is for you to d
q eide whether this weekly preacher of Righteousness
y this faithful and capable anti-slavery lecturer (,
J the household, shall be enabled to penetrate
many a home and hearth where it's ~salutary il
auences are most urgently needed. Fer the home
y and the hearths of the nominally free are raI
idly coming more and more under the baleful il
Auence OF slavery, and their inmates being depr
d oiated and demOralized to an extent which fe
are prepared to comprehend. The Only remed
is to send the antidote of anti slavery truth
, widely and as freely as the poison circulatss.
II lie in the power of the aboitionists Of ii
a West to put the Bugls into a self sustaining pos