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
We have peculiar pleasure in the reception of the Liverpool Box, as it
is the first we have ever received from that town. The close
connection, too, that exists between Liverpool and the United States,
renders it doubly valuable. Probably no town in the United Kingdom is
so pro-slavery in its sympathies as Liverpool, and hence, by help from
such a quarter, we are the more encouraged. We are aware how much we
owe to the influence of the Rev. Francis Bishop, whose travels a year
or two since in this country, contrary to the usual experience of
English gentlemen, particularly clergymen, seems but to have deepened
his horror of American Slavery, and called forth his most strenuous
efforts for its extinction.
The Bristol Box included collections from Cheltenham, Gloucester,
Bridgwater, Bath, Frenchay, Chatham, Southampton, Isle of Wight,
Yarmouth and Chudleigh. As usual, almost all the articles were pretty
and well chosen, and some, particularly elegant and valuable. This was
especially the case in respect to the Honiton Lace. A great part of
it, (and several very handsome articles were received besides those
contained in the Bristol box,) was sold on the very first morning the
Bazaar opened. A very beautiful Honiton Lace Pin Cushion, with the
word _Liberty_ formed in the work, the gift of the lace-maker, was
greatly admired, and sold readily. The Basket Work was eagerly sought
for, and, indeed, most of the Bristol articles found a good market.
Our Newcastle friends have again called us to mind. The congregation
of the Rev. George Harris, though occupied with the erection of a new
church, and unusual claims on their charity, in consequence of the
prevalence of cholera in their town, have yet remembered those who are
forbidden, _by law_, to worship God according to their own
consciences, and whose worldly estate is such, that pestilence in
their midst is esteemed a boon instead of a curse.
Leeds and Manchester have made their usual generous response to our
call. All the little objects of taste and art, pictures, books, &c.,
contained in the Leeds box, and the Papier Maché in that from
Manchester, were much valued. We should return our thanks in an
especial manner to Mr. Wilson Armistead, of Leeds, for books and
tracts that actually reached us. We are not the less grateful for a
larger and more valuable collection which it was not our fortune to
receive. The vessel in which they were sent from Glasgow was
shipwrecked, and the packages lost.
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