Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-24
TWENTY.SlXTI NATIONAL ANTl.SLiVERY
INSCRIPTION UNIVERSAL Y,
In the month Of January next, in Boston,
1850.

In a year when Americans finds themselves cit
liens Of a country Were the African slave trade
is going on, and slave-hunting unforbidden. and
sheltering the fugitive indicted as a crime, and
the leading religious and political influences go
dead to this public shame a. to discountenance
Legislative reform, we are confident that we have
only to open our subscription in order to be beeom-
ingly and effectually sustained by the awakening
virtue Of the people, in the enterprise to which our
lives are given.
We %entreat, then, oil the friends Of Liberty, and
and the foes of Slavery, everywhere. in the South
as at the North-in Europe as in America-phi.
~losopbers as we'll as Christian, Catholics no less
than Protestants, to subscribe to o fund and a
mode of expenditure which prepares the way be
fore every sect, every party. every association !,
which makes all other mems anti-slavery labor
light, and which has. for six and twenty years,
been laying the foundations Of many generations
80 as to exclude slavery from American institu.
tions, and secure to posterity those blessings Of
liberty which the last generation passed away
without enjoying.
The UNDERSIGNED, while asking the favor Of
their subscribers company. on their customary
Anniversary occasion, are ~impelled by the good
ness uHu tue SsduutuE v l ~ cHNei piioot ny ITO
indispensable necessity, by the universal and fund
amental character OF its principles, to entreat also
the assistance of all. The crisis ia the nations
life makes the occasion-one which win be worth
crossing the ocean to participate 10. And while
thanking our European friends for their generous
cooperation of last year with America, we ask its
continuance yet a little longer. till a spirit of de-
votedness adequate to this great world-enterprize
shall have been here awakened.
From this dsy forward through the year We be
gin to arrange our efforts, and economic our
means, greater or smaller as the case may be, to
meet this great national claim and we desire all
who would see slavery abolished, and truth, honor,
peace, liberty and safety in righteousness restored
o meet us at its close, for cheer, counsel. ~sscrifse
Resolve and generous cooperation.
MARIA w. CHAPMAN, LYDIA D. PARKER,
MARY MAY, ELIZA f.. EDDY,
Louisa LoRING, ABBY FRANeIs,
ELIZA LEE FoLLks, SARAH Russell MAY,
L. MARIA CnILp. ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
HENRIETTA SARGENT, SARAH ii. SoUTnwIcK,
ANNE WARREN WESTON, EvELINA A. S. SMITH,
MARY GRAY CHAPMAN, ANN REBEccA BRANHALL.
HELEN ELIZA GARRISON, Augusta g. KING,
SARAH SHAW RUSSELL, ELIZABETH VoN ARNAM,
FRANCES MARY ROBBINS, ANNA SHAW GREENE,
CAROLINE WEsroN, ELIZA APrHoRP,
MARY WILEY. ANNE LANoDos ALGER,
SARAH BLAKE SHAW. SAsossr
SUSAN @. CADor, MATTE GRIrrlru,
ELIZA ANDREW.
sas-Editors of journals friendly to the yause
aro.i for its sake, earnestly cntreated to oblise US by
giving the above invitation an insertion and ouI
friends everywhere will oopfsr the greatest favo,
on US, and a benefit 70 the cause and The country
by bringing i. to the notice Of the ftienas Of Free
dom,