The Liberator (newspaper)/September 18, 1857/The Ninth Worcester Anti-Slavery Bazaar

The Ninth

Worcester Anti-Slavery Bazaar.

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To be held in Worcester, during Cattle Show Week, September 22---25, 1857.

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The eight years during which this Bazaar has been held in this city have witnessed continued developments of the Slave Power more startling in their character than any that have preceded them. The Fugitive Slave Law, the revolting scenes attendant upon its repeated execution in this State, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the decision of Judge Taney, though the legitimate results of the accursed system whence they sprung, have appalled us by the rapidity with which they have pressed the question nearer to our own homes and firesides.

Our object is not merely to save Kansas, or to exclude slavery from the free States, but to wage against it unceasing warfare wherever it exists on the national domain, until on the soil of the Carolinas the song of the freeman and the hum of free labor shall supplant the groan of the slave and the slave-driver’s lash.

It is for this we ask your sympathy and your aid. We want to raise money to send out lecturers and publications to rouse the slumbering consciences of the people to a consciousness of the increasing importance of the Anti-Slavery cause.

Whatever product of taste, ingenuity or labor, whatever of money or refreshment any one will be disposed to give, will be thankfully received and judiciously appropriated. Communications may be sent to any member of the Committee.

• SARAH H. EARLE,
• EMILY SARGENT,
• LUCY CHASE,
• ADELINE H. HOWLAND,
• HANNAH M. ROGERS,
• ABBY W. WYMAN,
• SARAH L. BUTMAN,
• HANNAH RICE,
• OLIVE LOVELAND,
• MARY C. HIGGINSON, of Worcester;
• ELIZA A. STOWELL, of Warren;
• SARAH R. MAY, of Leicester;—and others.