Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-12
THE TWENTY.FOURlH.
NATIONAL
ANTI-S SLAVERY 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,-for immediate aid, by contri-
buttons of money, aud materials, and by pur-
chase at the next Bazaar to be opened in
Boston,
On THE 18th OF DECEMBER.
Contributions of money at the present time
will enable members of the Committee now in
Europe to add to the attractions of she 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
extinguishing slavery.
Our principle is too we'll known to need more
than a mere statement. 1t is, immediate, uncon-
ditional emancipation, without repatriation, and
by peaceful means. From a growing conviction
of the justice and necessity of this work, for the
good and honor of all 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 awakens,
never fails to find a way to work its will-through
church action, by agitation and withdrawal,-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 q prefer
ence for its products.
What we ask of the citizens around us, just
awakening to some one or other of the manifold
aspects Of this great question, is. to enable us to
continue the use Of the means that have proved
so cficacious in their own case. and to oustain the
primary cause of whatever Anti,Slavory 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-Slavcry eff
fort, by working with us, so to excite The love 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 a betrayer, bound to
that base function by the great organic law of his
country, take the means most ~effectual to turn the
betrayer into the protector, by helping us every
where to awaken a stronger sentiment than COM
passion for the millions who cannot fly Of whose
case ii was SO truly said by q 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
bead of moral power as we commend to the
attention of the whole land today.
We do not make this appeal in a sectional spir-
it as Northern Sorn, 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 ~erawhile. But we all, with one &C.
cord, testify to the truth of the anti-slavery prin-
ciples, and entreat the aid of all whom this ap.
peal reaches, to deliver the country from such q
despOtism, by their promulgation.
Ry~THE LIBERTY BELL will be published
as usual and we entreat all our friends who
have heretofore aided US by literary Or pecuniary
contributions, to let US hear from them once again,
as speedily as possible.
HsA.Our friends in Europe will not fail to
take notice that the Bazaar is open a Ceek earlier
than usual.
Contributions may be addressed to Mrs. CHAP
MAN, 81 Cornhill, Boston, or the other members
Of the Committee, at their respective homes.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN,
MARY MAY,
ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
LOUISA L0RING,
ELIZA LEE POLLEN,
ANNE WARREN WESTON,
ANN GREENE PHILLIPS,
SARAH SHAW RUSSELL,
FRANCES MARY ROBBINS,
HELEN Il. GARRISON,
ANN REBECCA BRAMHALL,
SARAH IL. SOUTHWICK,
MARY WILEY,
ABBY FRANCIS,
ANNA SHAW GREENE,
MARY GRAY CHAPMAN,
ELIZABETH GAY,
HENRIETTA SARGENT,
SARAH RUSSELL MAY,
CAROLINE WESTON,
SUSAN CABB0T,
MARY III. JACKSON,
SARAH BLAKE SHAW,
LYDIA. d. PARKER,
ELIZA +. EDDY,
EYELlNA A. S. SMITH,
ELIZABETH Won ARNIM,
AUGUSTA KING,
ELIZA ii. APTII0RP,
JUSTINE DE PEYSTER HOVEY,
MATTE GRIFFITH.