Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-06
SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Tho subject Of Finance, and the Anti-Slavery
Bngle, again coming before the meeting, ABBY
Kelley Foster said:
. Mr.. CHAIRMAN This morning We had in the
address of the executive committee, and the speech
of Mr.. Douglass and others, a teast for the intel
. lect, heart and soul. We were all deeply impress
ed; and | trust we shall fud that what we have
listened to with so deep an interest, will bs as
profitable to US as it has been pleasant; for unless
it shall make US bettcr,-unless it shall aid US to
do our duty, we might as we'll have been absent.
We should eat to live, not live to eat. l know
there are some who will not come into an anti-sla-
very meeting, unless they ore assured of an anti
slavery feast, such as we have enjoyed to-day.
Such, in this case, have fed to repletion, and to
what good end If they are but moral %gluttons
feeding on fine words and doing nothing, they are
morally dead, and worse for they live but as a
dead weight upon society. Even our friends, some
times, complain that there is too much time taken
up il our onnual meetings, with financial matters.
We are bored to death, they say, about money.
We do not come here to hear this continual cry.
But my friend what do you come here for! Is
il 70 have your ears tickled with iue words. Is
this The purpose Of an auti-slavery meeting ? No,
no We come to au anti-slavery meeting TO icorH'
and we need those noble speeches to make US srtong
for our labor. Nor do | think the a6oliuonists OF
che West have been called upon to make great Pc
eunlary sacrifices to the anti slavery cause. l
think you of the West have done no more than
you ought,-nor so much. True much has been
done, -noney has been raised aud expended. and
many meetings held but, not the one-hundIedth
part that ought to have been accomplished. Those
of theEast who are engaged in our enterprise have
done much to aid the cause in the West, and ithas
been done mainly by the selfsacrifce, not OF the
rich, but Of men and women comparatively poor.
A few of our friends. ike Charles Ii. uOVoy, were
rich, AMI contributed most literally sacrificing
ease, and convenience and honor to the cause OF
the slaves redemption,
But none of us have any good cause TO complain
OF being annoyed by financial speeches and solic'
itations for aid to carry on our work for none OF
US have done more for the cause OF the slave than
the cause has done for us For myself feel that
l have been far more than paid for the little
have been able to do. Yesterday l appealed to
you for aid to the anti-slavery Bugle, l trust no
one will be bored by any effort made in its behalf,
for if we are to do any efficient work in the West
for freedom, the Bugle must be sustained other
wise, all is lost. If the lighthouse is struck down,
no ship, or little boat, on all the great sea Of cor
ruption is safs. And is there an ybody here who
cares nothing about making the State of Ohio a
place fit to be the abode of our children : Is there
any of you who would not have your beautiful
State as decent in its morals and humanity as the
South Sea ISlandsI You can, if you will, lift up
the sufferers of the South Sea Islands, but you
cannot do so in the State Of Ohio. Shall you and
! be willing to have our children in such a coun-
try as this, while we can do any possible thing to
prevent it You will not, l trust, neglect to cup
port the only paper in the West that dares to ex'
pose the deception and corruption Of the Republi.
can party, which is d~eluding SO many with the
name of freedom. If you are true to principle and
would improve the character of your State, you
will not let the Bugle 60 do wn. let no one say
the paper cannot be sustained it can be done and
it must for to do this is necessary to the success
OF the great revolution Of id eas, for the achiey-
ment OF which we are laboring. We have more
at stake than our Revolutionary fathers they
were lighting for their own liberties. the right to
govern themselves. We are laboring to exalt
those who have none TO help them, and whose
rights and liberties our fathers betrayed and, if
they could lay life. fortune, and sacred honor on
the alter, shall we do less?
know that you have had disastrous pecuniary
endorsements in the west, for a few years past,
80 we had in the East. Your crops also have fail
ed and for a time many Of the Anti-slavery
friends were not in q condition to contribute much
money to sustain anti.slavery operators, or eveL to
pay for the Bugle and hence much was los! by
nOn-payment. Many no doubt who were able to
do, did not send in their subscriptions. Such