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Show liO THE MONTHLY OFFERING. pre~ented to the Legislature. Let there be no delay on this point. PoETRY.-Read and commit to memory the soul inspiring Jines in this number of the Offering. Read them, and then if you do not feel to labor for the slave's redemption, you may then fear that "There is no flesh in your obdurate heart., Chrhtmas 'Veek. This, to the friends of the slave, will be an interesting week. The Committee on the Anti-Slavery Fair are sparing neither time nor pains to make the coming Anniversary one of the most interesting occasions of the kind ever wit· nessed. The women of England, Ireland and Scotland, have b~en busy with their fingers the present season, as the multiplicity of articles enumerated in their invoice fully demonstrates. Will the \Vomen of Massachusetts be less active and ir.· ·terested in the abolition of American Slave1·y- that bar· barous and inhuman system which is covering the fame, prosperity and purity of our otherwise comparatively hap· py country with blight and mildew, than our transatlantic coadjutors? If there is any individual who has not commenced working for this fair, we would say to such, dont delay to commence another moment. Much can be done in four or five weeks. Poultry, butter, cheese, eggs and vegetable of all kinds will be acceptable. A friend of ours the other day, in an· swer to an application for funds to carry on the ope rations of the Anti-Slavery cause, remarked, "Iv'e got no money, but if you'll accept of 25 Bushels of carrots, they shall be at your service when" digging time arrives!'' We saw . -~. -- ~ FAIR, 171 those carrots, sold a few days since, for six dollars and 25 cents. To you, who are in want of useful and fancy article~, and have money to spend for them we say, wait till Christ· mas week, when your taste can be gratified from the almost infinite variety of things which will be exposed at the fair. If you cannot visit the city yourself, commission some friend to purchase for you. This all contributes to aid our cause. !llnssnchusetts Anti·Sinvery Fair. This eigth annual anti-slavery effort bids fair already _to surpass all its predecessors. Those who have no hand m it, will lose some of the richest gratifications of human nature. They lose the opportunity of grati fying in one effort their benevolence, their conscientiousness, their love of the beautiful,-their desire for congenial society. The very flower of the Anti-Slavery enterprise is engaged in the occasion; and it will be a foretaste of the far-off Jubilee as well as a means of hastening its approach. The women of Scotland-God bless them !-have risen "in the majesty of their mercy." A letter from the Secretary of the Glasgow Society has just been received by the Boston Committee of the Fair, full of steadfast sympa· thy and encouragement; enough to cheer the hearts of the most desponding. It accompanies a valuable case of articles not yet received from the steam boat, and announces that morll are on their way from Scotland, Ireland and London ,-the fruits of the appeal of the Women of Glasgow to the whole country, in behalf of the persecu· ted American A. S. Society. May the abolitionists of the |