Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-05
TWENTY.SIXTH NATIONAL ANTl.SLAVERY :,
Y,
In the month Of January neal, in Boston,
1860.

In a year when Americans finds themselves Cit
liens Of q country Were the African slave trade
is going on, and slave-hunting unforbidden, and
shel,ering the fugitive indicted as a crime, and
the leading religious and political influences go
dead to this public shame as to discountenanc
legislative reform, we are confident that we have
only to open our subscription in order to be becom-
ingly and efectually 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-
l~osophers as veil 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 all 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.
lions, and secure to posterity those blessings Of
liberty which the last generation passed away
without enjoying. .Is.. F.
TEE UNDERSIGNED, while asking the favor OF
their subscribers company, on their customary
Anniversary occasion, are impelled by the good
ness and the grandeur of the enterprise, by its
indispensable necessity, by the universal and fund
ameutal character OF its principles, to entreat also
the assistance Of all. The crisis in the nations
life makes the oocasion-one which will be worth
crossing the ocean to participate in. And while
thanking our European friends for their generous
cooperation of last year with America, we ask Its
continuance yet a little longer, till q spirit OF de-
v~otedness adequate to this great world-enserprize
shall have been here awakened.
From this day forward through the year We be
gin to arrange our efforts, and economic our
means. greater or smaller as the case may DO, to
meet this great national claim and We desire all
who would see slavery abolished, and truth, honor
ueace, liberty and safety in Righteousness restored.
40 meet as at it's close, for cheer, counsel, sacrinee'
resolve and generous co-operation.
MARIA W. CHAPMAN, LYDIA ID. PARKER
Mary MAY. ELIZA f. EDDY,
JouIsA LoRISo, ABBY FRANCIS,
ELIZA LEE FoLLEy, SARAH Russell Mar.
r, MARIA CHILD. ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
HENRIETTA SARGENT, SARAH H.. SouTawick'
ANNE WARREN WESTON, EvELINA A. 3. sniTH'
nay GkAy CHAPMAN. ANN REBEccA BRAxHALL
HELEN ELIZA GARRISON, AUGUSTA u. HING
s,v.u SHAW RussELL, ELIZABETH Won ARSAN,
Fa.scxs MARY RoBBIss, ANNA SHAW GREENE,
CARoLiNE WEsroN, ELIZA Arrsohf,
MARY WILEY. ANNE LAsoDoS AIcIA'
SARAH BLAKE SHAW. SA1eASr'
susAs G. CABor, MATTE GRIFFITH,
ELIZA ANpREw.
s6rEditors of journals friendly to the cause
.ro for its sake. earnestly sntysated to oblige us BY
giving tho above invitation an insertion ana oo'
friends everywhere will oohfss the greatest is'o'
CD Us, and q benefit TO The cause and the ooonuJi
by bringing IL to the notice Of the friends Of fFss