Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-18
q o II, III
BosToN, Mass, August 10, 1860.

DoeIoNi Maeoi august w lcOO'
To THE EDITOR: Your paper of the second inst.
has a letter from an Iowa correspondent by the
name of Morgan, IAN excellent An,i-Slayery name
at the West,) earnestly asking that our labors be
extended to that State. l write now to second that
proposition, and also to ask Of the Western Execu-
tive Committee, what the Trustees Of the Hovey
Bequest can do most advantageously to aid in the
work, Our friend Morgan says the people OF Iowa
from bad harveSts and other causes are too poor
cow to rem Ter much pecuniary support. While l
hope that even the widows will not Withhold their
mites. nor the rich their more abundant offerings,
still no efficient, genuine service need be lost, for
want Of money,
1t is also suggested that the Abolitionists of
Iowa are not only few, but widely scattered, and
do not know each other. These difficulties existed
to an equal extent not long ago, in Ohio and Michi-
gan. The Western Anniversary alone, held for
so many years in Ohio, would have made abolition
lists known to each other there; and a few State
Conventions in Michigan, annually held, have
wrought the same desirable end there also.
And it has occurred to me to ask what would
be the probable result Of some grand Conventions
called, one perhaps in Northern Indiana, a second
in Northern Illinois, another in Wisconsin, and
still another in Iowa.
Should such Gatherings be called, no effort
should be spared to make them as important as
possible. They should be advertised in all the
local newspapers, as well as in the Bugle, the
Standard, and Liberator. Every abolitionist,
young, old, male and female, should feel a persona!
responsibility for the success of the undertaking..
All should attend who are able, in person. Others
should respond to the Call by letters, enclosing in
the letters such pecuniary aid as the writers and
their friends can bestow, to defray expenses. The
CALL should be to those especially who are ready
to lay on the altar of Humanity and Freedom,
every obstacle to the Slave'sRedemption; Religious
Sect, Political Party. Right of Suffrage, every
thing whereby UNION is upheld with shareholders,
and their unrighteous system is prolonged. Men
determined to support the Chicago Platform, and
members of the popular American Churches, may
as well be told at the outset, tina. their first anti
slavery work should be q personal one; their own
emancipation from sects and parties pledged to
the longer enslavemcnt of four million victims in
half the nation, through the unhallowed Union OF
the States.
These Conventions should not prevent other
Anti.Slavery labors, in the States where they
are held; but on the contrary, they should be
means to open the way to every accessible field in
those States. Indeed, that should be a primary
object in calling them. The best locality should
be selected, possible; taking into account facilities
for reaching it, extent of anti,sIavery hospitality,
and probable prospects of a most successful Con.
%sention.
1 hope Mr.. Editor, you and your Executive
Committee, will consider these friendly sugges.
lions, only in the light of suggestions from one
whom you all know too we'll to suspect of an
other wish than to be an humble co-operator,
with you in any work best adapted to speed on
our glorious cause.
ltmay also be proper for me to add that through
the noble generosity of the late Mr.. Hovey Of
Boston, ! shall be able to bring with me, into our
Autumn Campaign, such pecuniary aid as will