Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29
TWENTY.SIXTH NATIONAL AATl.SLAVERY
INSCRIPTION Y;
In the month Of January neat, in Boston,
1860.

In a year when Americans finds themselves cit
liens Of a country where the African slave trade
is going on, and slave-hunting unforbidden. and
sheltering the fugitive indicted as a crime, and
the leading ~rsltgiobs and political influences go
dead to this public shame as 10 discountenance
legislative reform, we are confident that we have
only to open our subscription in order to be becon-
ingly and efectually sustained by the awakening
virtue of the people, in the enterprise to which our
lives are given.
We entreat, then, all the friends of Liberty, and
and the foes of Slavery, everywhere. in the South
as at the North-in Europe as iu America-phi-
~losophers ms we'll as Christian, Catholics no less
than Protestants, to. subscribe to a fund and q
mode of expenditure which prepares the way be,
fore every sect, every party, every association
which makes dill other mems anti-slavery labor
light; did which has, for six and twenty years.
beeh laying the foundations of many generations
SO as to exclude slavery from American institu-
tions, and secure to p~osterity those blessings o.
liberty which the last generation passed away
without enjoying.
The UNDERSIGNED, while asking ths favor OF
their subscribers' company, on their customary
Anniversary occasion, are iHipelled by the good
ness and the grandeur Of the enterprise, by its
indispensable necessity, by the universal and fund
amental character OF its principles. to entpeat also
the assistance Of all. The crisis in the nations
life makes the occasion-one which will be worth
crossing tie ocean to participate in. And while
thanking cur European friends for their generous
cooperation of last year with America, we ask its
oontinGance yet a little longer, till a spirit Of de-
eotedness adequate to this great worldentefprize
shall have been here awakened.
From this day forward through the year we be
gin 10 arrange our efforts, and economise our
means, greater or smaller as the case may be, to
meet this great national claim and We desire al
who would see slavery abolished. and trGth, honor
peace, liberty and safety in righteousness restored,
to meet Us at its close, fot cheer. counsel, sacrifice,
resolve and generous cooperation.
MARIA W. CHAPMAN, LYDIA D. PARKER,
MARY MAY, ELIZA f. EDDY,
LOUISA LoRINd, ABBY FRANCIS,
Eliza LEE FoLLEs, SARAH Russell May,
L.. MARIA CHILD, ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
HESRIErrA SARGENT, SARAH II. SourHwIcK,
ANNE WARREN WESTON, EvELINA A.. s.. SMITH,
MARY GR&f CHAPMAN. ANN REBEccA BRAMHALL,
HELEN ELIZA GARRISON, AtGUsrA g. KING,
SARAH SHAW RUSSELL, ELIzABETH vow ARNAM,
FRANCES MARY RoBnISs, ANNA SHAW GREENE,
CAROLINE WEsros, ELIZA APrHoRP,
MARY WILEY, ASsK LANopoN AIGER,
SARAH BLAZE SHkw, observation-disclosures
SusAs @. CABor, MArrit GaIrrIru,
4'" ELIZA ANDREW.
1a5tEditors Of journals friendly to the oauss
arc. for its sake. earnestly c~ntreated to Oblige us by
giving the above invitation an insertion and our
friends everywhere viii confer the greatest favor
on us. and a benefit to The cause and the country
by bringing II to the notice Of the friends Of Free
dom.