Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-01
NATIONAL ANTI.sLAvERY BAZAAR.

We learn by a letter from Mrs. Maria W. Chap.
man to til, London Anti Slavery Advocate, that
the National Anti Slavery Bazaar is to be discontiu.
ued. The friends who for twenty-five years have
sustained it, now think it best to give their efforts
to the procurement Of funds by direct contribution
rather than by the tedious and laborious method
of the manufacture, collection and sale of merch.
andise. How great that labor is, none can know
but those who have hitherto assumes its perform
ance with all the attendant responsibilities and
cares. Without this fundamentally, the funds for
carrying forward the operations of the American
Anti Slavery Society could not hitherto have been
obtained. And even now, with the greatly in
creased Anti. Slavery sentiment pervading the
country, we are doubtful whether the energy hith.
erto expended upon the Bazaar when turned to
the direct solicitation of funds will realize the
amount which the Bazaar has annually furnished.
Bot even if it should not. this change of plan may
be for the best interest of the cause. And at all
events the managers of the Bazaar after their long
experience. fidelity and devotion are for other con.
siderations entirely justifable in changing their
method of labor. We traet the result may be a
diffusion of responsibility among abolitionists
generally. If SO the discontinuance Of the Bazaar
will be not less conclusive to the best interests Of
the slaves cause, than was its greatest pecuniary
success.
Edmund Quincy writing on the subject in the
Standard says;
at has been q very severe drain on the health
and strength of the ladies who have had the hea,
and burden of those many days to bear, and it is
rather sur prising that it should have endur
ed unto this day than that it should now
come to an end. We mere men, who have had
only the pleasure of the spectacle and Of the re
union OF friends at that annual assembly, may be
~pardoned for being sorry that il is no more to be
But it is for those who had the weight of its re
} sponsibility opd the excessive labor Of getting il
) up to say whether they are competent or disposed
to go on with it any longer. 1t is not likely that &C
much money-smaila as the amount is when com
! pared with the pains necessary to collect it-car
! lie obtained in any other way-certainly, not from
: the same class of persons. But every Abolitionis
ia the sole Judge Of the way in which he or she hat
expend their time and energies and life ant
strength may be used to better advantage. for tn,
B. Causes sake, then turning them into ready money
4 1t may be, however, that an equal amount of fund
r can be raised by other means without this cum
n 5rous and crushing machinery of o Bazaar. 1t
t in the full confidence that this is the case that tn
r responsibility Of stopping that instrumentalit
S has been taken, and every Abolitionist. on bot
. sides of the Atlantic, will undoubtedly wish an
endeavor TO make the result correspond with thi
] hope and expectation"
: The Editor Of Tie London Advocate, regrets tn
8 discontinuance of this method Of raising funds, a
the influence of the sewing circles and other asst
Citations auxiliary to the Bazaar have through thei
= social influence been highly useful in dissen
!. mating facts and cultivating anti slavery sentimer
Q in great Britain AMI Ireland. Nevertheless til
= friends on tho other side Of the Atlantic, we al
> assured will still continue their valuable contrib,
i ton Of labor and money to our common and worlc
d wide cause.
The following is Mrs, Ctapman's letter.
WEYMOUTH. Massachusetts,, March, 1858.
You will, | hope receive by next steamer our II
e port of the complete success of this years hnanci;
effort. Well nigh $4,000 is not a bad sum ir
!, year Of total business prostration. We are eI
: abled to report tolerable Success, positively speakin,
and brilliant success, comparatively speaking.
The time esems to have come for q change
!" our method Of fnanciering. The Bazaar hs
. prepared the way for 9 wider and deeper instr
:, mentality. Fairs are good only so long as there
:" no other way and the instant direct contritutio
can be substituted in a way TO increase the fns'
u eiai efficacy, we should be inexcusable nOt to do |
This it now seeIas to me can be done through III
d same organization, the same sort Of annual cal
upholting the same application of the funds. =
There are many in America. who yet stand witt
nut. who would be willing 80 give IL applied {
II Alright; and when we reflect that the lime spent ;
!, keep the Bazaar in movement nigh, keep up a di
rect subscription. we feel as il We saw the 6nge
of Providence bidding US seek your aid this way
rather than to continue the former one of raisin,
D funds. Even surprising the result should he les
in Europe this year. it would be probably create,
in America; and this is a strong motive. You
. help has Helped as to help ourselpes.
, We eatreat the continuance Of your aid in
more eaectaal way. which we have devised sine,
observing that our past united labors have prepar
5 the way for something greater. know you viii
: ali rejoise 10 the forwardness and ripeness in I'll
{ cause which Il indicates. aud at the i'm provemen
!. IN method which that progress renders for tho 6rs