Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery BazaarWeston, A. W.
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Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
Weston, A. W.
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts; Bazaars (Charities) -- Massachusetts -- Boston
An unusually large number of visitors and purchasers were in
attendance, during the first week; but on the second, the very
terrible storm to which we have referred, proved most seriously
detrimental. Commencing on the night of the 28th, it continued, with
unabated violence, through the next day and night, leaving the streets
almost impassable, and completely precluding all access to numbers of
the country friends, who had postponed their visits till the Bazaar’s
second week. In the opinion of excellent judges, our receipts were
diminished not less than $500, by this cause. As the Hall had been
engaged, and all arrangements made, in prospect of closing on the
31st, it was not thought best to depart from the original intention.
When we take into account the storm, disappointments and hindrances,
in respect to the arrival of boxes, and the absence of the Liberty
Bell, which circumstances rendered it inconvenient to issue, and then
remember that our receipts have exceeded those of last year by $200,
we have occasion to feel that we have great reason for hope and
encouragement.
While money-making is our primary object, we yet manage to secure
collateral results of a very agreeable, as well as useful character.
The Bazaar furnishes an occasion, on which Anti-Slavery people of all
shades of opinion, the pro-slavery world and the _Poco curante_, all
meet together, and from the conflict of sentiment and exchange of
ideas that ensue, it cannot be but that good is evolved. Much social
enjoyment and much serious business are compressed into the ten days
through which the Bazaar continues, and many friends from a distance
make their annual visit to Boston at this season. Opportunities are
also given for the direct inculcation of Anti-Slavery truth. On
various evenings, addresses of a most earnest and argumentative
character were given by Messrs. GARRISON, QUINCY, FOSS, and PILLSBURY.
After so long an absence from the scene of her early labors, as Mrs.
Child’s residence in New York has occasioned, we hailed her presence
as a helper with the liveliest satisfaction. We participated in the
great pleasure she must have experienced in comparing our present
Bazaar with the first Anti-Slavery Fair, held in the December of 1834,
owing its origin entirely to the personal labors and contributions of
herself and Mrs. Ellis Gray Loring. In every point of view, the
reminiscence is full of encouragement.
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