Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-10
TWENTY.SlXTII NATIONAL ANTI.SLAVERY
INSCRIPTION ANNIVERSAR Y
In the month Of January neat, in Boston,
1860.

In q year when Americans finds themselves cit
liens Of q 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 SO
dead to this public shame as to discountenance
legislative reform, we are confident that we have
only to open our subscription in order to be becom.
ingly and effectually 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 in America-phi
~losopbers as we'll as Christian, Catholics no less
than Protestants, to subscribe to q fund and o
mode of expenditure which prepares the way be
fore every sect, every party, every association
which makes oil other mems anti-slavery labor
light, and which has, for six and twenty years
been laying the foundations Of many generations
so as to exclude slavery from American institu
tions, and secure to posterity those blessings o.
liberty which the last generation passed away
without enjoying.
The UNDERSIGNED, while asking the favor oil
their subscribers company, on their customary
~Ahh'' SSSooioh w pun " ~ II ROOu-
ness and the grandeur of the enterprise, by it's
indispensable necessity, by the universal and fund.
amental character OF its principles, to entreat also
the assistance of all. The crisis in the nations
life makes the occasion-one which will be worth
crossing the ocean to participate in. Ard 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 day forward through the year we be
gin to arrange our efforts, and economize oul
means, greater or smaller as the case may be, t.
meet this great national claim and we desire al
who would see slavery abolished, and truth, homo
peace, liberty and safety in righteousness restored
to meet US at its close, for cheer, counsel, sacrifice
resolve and generous cooperation.
MARIA W. CHAPMAN, LYDIA D. PARKER,
MARY MAY, ELIZA F. EDDY,
LOUISA LoRIyG, ABBY Francis,
ELIZA LEE FoLLES, SARAH Russell MAY,
L. MARIA CHILD, ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
HENRIETTA SARGENT, SARAH II. SoUTnwIcK,
ANNE WARREN WESTON, EvELINA A.. S. SMITH,
MARY GRAY CHAPMAN, ANN REBEccA BKAMHALL,
HELEN ELIZA GARRISON, AUGUSTA G. KING,
SARAH SHAW RUSSELL, ELIZABETH Won ARNAM,
FRANCES MARY ROBBINS, ANNA SHAW GREENE,
CAROLINE WESTON, ELIZA AP1HoRP,
MARY WILEY, ANNE LANGDoN ALGER,
SARAH BLAKE SHAW. Observation-Disclosures
SUSAN G.. CABOT, MATTE GRIrrIrH,
ELIZA ANDREW.
sa"EditOrs of journals friendly to :he caust
arc, for its sake, earnestly entreated to oblige US b,
giving the above invitation an insertion and on,
friends everywhere will confer the greatest favo
on us, and n benefit to the cause and the country
by bringing it to the notice Of the friends Of Free
dom.