Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-27
Ibe Antt- 5laucrp Buolr.
REPORT.
TWENTY. FOURTH NATIONAL ANTlSLA'
VERY BAZAARFESTlVAL.- Extracts.

The aim of this institution is Mt once moral, re-
ligious, political and financial; and all these
twenty -four years it has Geen successful In 70 or
binary degree in its iuur-fold orerauun,-ralsing
money to educate and direct the public mind, ahd
to stimulate and strengthen the public heart till
now our United States present spectacle in strlk-
ing contrast with that shocking ciminnity of calm
satisfaction with which they held their enslaved
millions OF the beginning.
Financially speukipg, this years. effort hns re-.
Quilted in com plee The same stress OF the
times that esaened the receipts, removing in much
greater proportion the Obstacles, it has been, all
ihings considered, far practically and mpres-
sivey successful than the effort OF the preceding
year 1t is comparatively little. that q Fair OF the
Church should receive 600 for the good work of
educating n hundred orphans, "a Fair for the blind
the same sum for teaching the use of their remain
ing faculties to u hundred sightless ones,-that
Fairs for church buildings and cemeteries should
draw the same from thUse who are to worship In
the one and to repose at death in the other
These good objects, requiring neither explanation
nor instruction to recommend them, are obvious to
the coldest hearts ard to the narr0west minds
They neither excite prejudice nor ofend selhshness
and merely appea! to the voluntary principle Tor
ends already under the protection OF individual
interest, ecclesiastical patronage and compulsory
legislation. 10000,
But we have this year raised the sum of $500,
at n moment of general bankruptcy anI complete
commercial prostraton, for object against
which Church, State, and individual interests are
yet arrayed an object so great TINT OUT OF nun
dred, not Two have the heads, and out OF q th"us
and, not more than one has the heart to see ana
feel its full, Importance or conceive ot It's cOater
al hearings until has done years work of enlarge
ment and instruction in each individual oature,-
For ourselves. frankly acknowledge that we are
sure new light is yet 20 break upon us out ot tins
enterprise. The prophets pi the future are the
splendors OF the past. We began by induiglng
our sepsibiltcs over an individual slave and still
we follow Sternes good counsel to present single
case the better to awaken the first emotion Of sym
pathy; compreheudirg with Pit ana Wa'pole,
that when talk of millions. the size OF the mis-
cry prevents the eye from seizng on Its outlines
till tine heart has ielt its acuteness.
But, little by little, our minds have been led by
The sight of suffering to its cause and enlarged by
compassion to understand justice. We Eave be
gun work for one race and one country, which
we learn at length involves the weli-5eIng of all
mankind. Our first thought was not to leave our
own times worse than we found them: our last is
10 lay Alright the foundations Of many geperaii ms.
They must be laid in freedom: we must abolish
slavery.
Our country is now so far behind .hc rest OF the
world and very deep our disappointment,
coming into life did in the persuasion, that
she leu the worlds advance. We early resolved
to change her position in order to ut her for what
she claimed.
With us here in America, no change without o
change of mind and therefore, like all other
Americans, we suit means to our ends, raising
money 60 propagate principle.
We cannot at this time. give clearer account
"nr twenty.fourlh financial effort, of 1857, than
Inv spnnononin. our friends in Imagination and
nssS;nr ris,s souud tn. circle of ideas which would
have been preseuted to their minds had they actu-
allv been with US on this occasion. 1t Is no'
mere ladies fancy fair that we are describing W
them lit is not a trade-sate-ss 80 many nave
found out who came hoping to nave oo'ii"cl u,
the anti-slavery ladies, merely factors iurh'sheu
with the skill and taste to procure the pehuah' W
some European object of uirta which 1t would
cost them much time and money to select in some
foreign capital for themselves. But ~e are des-
cribng an influence Of power SO oeepy to stir
careless heart to unite 1t at once to the cause o
freedom and humanity. How many nave
found, in this annual occsson, an oppor
tunitv for helpfuness in saving our own
country and the world from that which hin,
ders. defaces and destroys all that is good ana
beautiful in human nature-slavery; ana me
least of the harm done by that curse OF the World
is what it does TO the slave. By him embruteo ana
blighted, and through the base determination Tor
the sake of wealth and worldly aggrandizement TO
keep him So his master, North and South
alike, became the Buccaneering President the
murder.loving Senator the intriguing Representa-
tive. the false Governor, tae boughtup Judge OF a
debased people.
And this influence which we have been describ-
ing. to which the good in our country ever JOIN
their own. is most powerfully uniting one drawing
rank after rank of our own people upward and on
ward, to cease only with the perfect union Of the
South to ITSELF There, we'll as at the North.
clear heads and devoted hearts, with this advan-
tage that there, whoever WILL is freer to make FREQ.
Who doubte that Mr.. Aiken of South Carolina
may free his thousand headed gang when ne will ?
Our first thought in conjunction with this powerful
Influence Of Freedom was, to do what Burke aud
I'll other thinking men, whether liberal or eonserV'