Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12
Adjourned to "A o'clock, p. m.
THE ANTI SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY SUB
SCRIPTION.

The Anti. Slavery Subscription Festival was held
in Boston week before last. 1t was designed as q
substitute for the Annual Bazaar. All the friends
of the American Anti'Slavery Society will rejoice
to learn that its success was all and more than was
expected by its friends. The Liberator says Of it:
This undertaking was crowned with extraordi
nary success, whether considered from the point of
view of finance or Of friendship. 1t reunited the
friends of the cause from all parts of the country
from the East and from the West, from the North
and from the South while Europe joined with
America in behalf of the principles of freedom so
important to the welfare of both. We shall give a
full account hereafter, with the communication
received on the occasion. AT present, we can on.
ly report that the results were double those Of last
ear, amounting to about $4,000, with trifing at
tendant expense the ZONE contributions bearing
an honorable portion to the foreign ones"
The Boston Correspondent Of the Standard says:
as the primest novelty, and as, what novelties,
however prime, are not always, a most entire sue.
cess. / confess l had no faith in the plan at all.
am of a staid and conservative turn of mind that
we're hard to persuade that any change in any
long.established matter can be for the better
Gibbon, you may remember, was not quite clear as
to the wisdom of overturning that ancient institu'
ton, the Holy lnquisition. l don't know how |
happened to think of interfering with that other
venerable one called Slavery. But, since | have
been thus misguided into m~eddling with what is
clearly, on the most competent authority, none of
my business, l had transferred the steadfastness of
my adherence to institutions to those | found es.
tablished for it's molestation, when | first came in.
to the cause. Now, the Bazaar was one in which
| believed with all my might, and the rather be,
cause its fruits were manifest and p~alpable, and
it's method well organized by long and patient ex-
perience. When it was proposed, therefore, to So.
percede that venerable establishment by q new
tangled and unhsard,o of. before scheme, | was of as
little faith as Thomas himself as to its answering
the same purpose. But acknowledge my error
IN all humility and contrition.
when ! heard. for instance, that it was bro,
posed that the ladies engaged in the movement
should be at home all one day at the Music Hall
and hold a levee in the evening, in the expectation
that pilgrims would come in bearing 10 their hands
gifts Of silver and gold, or convertible bank notes,
| feared that it would be a conjuration like that Of
Owen Glendower. and that. though spirits Of this
choice description might be summoned from the
Vastly deep. they would be in no haste to obey the
invitation. But l was mistaken, and all tina,
shared my doubts. The Music Hall was moi
. crowded. certainly. in the morning and afternoon,
but those that came left substantial tokens of their
interest 10 the cause to the amount Of many hun,
bred dollars. In the evening the beautiful hall
was lighted up. the Anti-Slavery banners-etorr
but Ayi~ng"-Aouted the ceiling, il not the sky,
from the front Of the balconies, and a band of mu.
sic occupied The stage In front Of the 6ns statute oil