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
Let us recal, for a moment, the written records of thought and feeling
that accompany the exquisite and beautiful donations of which the
Bazaar is made up. These latter suggest only ideas of taste, and
skill, and elegant leisure, and abundant wealth; and the looker-on can
hardly do else than associate such brightness of coloring and harmony
of tint, with the glow of health and happiness. But with these
suggestions, do the facts accord? Far from it. From the homes of
actual poverty, from young girls painfully earning their own bread,
and yet saving something to purchase the material that shall be
fashioned into the gay clothing, never to be worn for their own
decoration, from the chambers of sickness and languor, and hopeless
disease, from Asylums for the Blind, from schools that charity has
established for the help of the wholly indigent,――it is from sources
like these, that very great and valuable assistance is obtained. True,
the gifts of the happy and the prosperous are here also; the
glittering ornament, that has graced many a gay pageant; the exquisite
picture, in which the painter has made real his happiest conception,
or recalled some favorite scene; the admired and successful volume,
fresh from the hands of its author. The minister of religion, the
philosopher, the artist, and the poet, have given us of their best,
have freely contributed that spiritual and ideal wealth, whose price
is above rubies. But all these gifts, however diverse their source,
come to us with words of the most earnest encouragement, with
assurances of exhaustless sympathy, and promises of continued support.
Much of the help thus given, by deed and word, is sent from other
lands. To the moral beauty of the contribution, it adds not a little,
in our eyes, that such is the case. The fact itself furnishes a most
invigorating testimony to the truth of the principle on which the
Anti-Slavery enterprise is based. By a spontaneous conviction,
overmastering nationalities, and usage, and creed, and language, men
differing world-wide in all beside, are laboring together in the
promulgation of the cardinal doctrine of our Anti-Slavery creed, that
_under no conceivable circumstances_, can one man hold another as
goods and chattels.
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