Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-13
Twentieth Annual Report Of The MasSaGhu.
SetlS Anti.SlayCfy Society.

The Annual Reports Of associations arc ordi-
narily soon cast aside and forgotten. This re-
port certainly deserves to be made an exception.
1t is worthy to take rank among the clossc his
tories of tho times. Though crowded into the
brief period Of twelve month, its events are
among the most important Of the age and they
arc recorded in words Of living energy and pow
or. The book comprises llO pages, eighty Of
/ which are devoted TO the Annual Report of the
/ Board Of Managers from the pen of Mr.. Quin-
/ cy. Thc Appendix contains the proceedings
of tho Annual Meeting, together with the two
/ speeches Of Mr.. Philips on that occasion.--
The whole, makes document Of rare value,
which should be spread over the whole country.
1t brings forward in admirable arrangement tho
/ prominent events and influences that have opo-
rated upon the question Of freedom. We give
a specimen or two, from which our readers may
learn the character Of the whole.
The CHURCH.
! The history of the American Church has
been again this year tic reflection of that of
the American people. The SlayccHtcling
law having become an established iusiitu-
ton, the Church las not been required TO
pour the waters Of baptism upon it, MS IN its
infancy. Though we cannot produce as
cdiiying list of sermons TO prove that n
Law Of Congress is paramount to n mere
Law of God, we believe that it is merely
because they have not been called for We
cannot think that il is IN the power Of Con-
grcss To puss nny conceivable law, FOR which
the great lights Of tie American Church
would not he able to give the authority of
God, Of Christ, OF the glorious company of
the apostles aud Of the holy army Of Mar
tyrs. But nothing very noticeable has oc-
cured since we last addressed you.
The Circuit Court of the United States
for New Iurk has decided the great suit
between the Southern aud Northern Diyis-
ions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
favor of tie South. That is to say, il has
decrccd to the South their ratoublc prOpoi-
ton of the Book Concerns, Copyrights, sc.
As the poin; on which the separation took
place was Slavery, it certainly becomes the
judicial authorities of the United States to
see TO it that the South receives no dciri.
tucut We have not investigated the mstter
sufficiently 10 Judge of the meriis of the
case; bat il would have been ia the face of
all precedcnts. if the Northern section had
been able to obtain any advantage over the
Southern, except in the particular of being
rid of it.
In the Convention of the Episcopal
Church of the Diocese of New York, Mr.
JuHN JAY again attempted to procure the
admission of The Church of the Messiah in
To the Convention. And ngun the rights of
these colorcd Churclmcu were shuiiled
aside. Tho application was referred TO tic
Committee on the incorporation Of Church.
es in whose hands it seems TO have found
quiet resting place. We fear that the ca
uonical rights of these Ethiopian Christians,
will never he acknowledged, unless they
can first change their skins. But we cannot
too much honor the persistency aud indie
pcndeuce of Mr. JAYS course in regard TO
them, aud liopn that hc wIIl persevere unto
u :, ""essiul issue.
THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH.
The attitude of the South and the North
towards each other does not indicate that
entire fusion of interests aud feelings which
we were given to hope would follow the
Compromise Measures. Scarcely any, in
deed, of the ;;avchoding States profess to
he satisfied with those acts. The best dis
posed ure merely willing TO accept them us
an occasion of continuing 10 us the light of
their countcnuucCs, without which we
should perish. The extreme Shareholders
dcspisc and reject them ns mere delusions
aud snarcs. Ia the meantime the practical
unity of the two portions of the country is
not grentcr Than their theoretical coniorm
~. While we are ontrHging the feelings of
our Southern brethren by demanding the
protection of Anglo.SaXon laws for all men
found within our peace, or even by some
what irregulary applying the national idcns
of equality of rights to cases where we find
men robbed of them, the South is not with
out their equivalent. If we rescue their
Slaves, they make Slaves of our free cocks
aud stewards. Ii we sometimes give
rough word to n Savecaichcr, they hang,
fog, drown, tar aud feather, and drive out
of their borders, all suspected ol "inianous-
~ nicrring,o as Mr.. RUFUs CROArE says
"ihc duty of Immediate Emancipation from
the Declaration of Independence and the
Gospel of Jesus Christ" Ii the Legislature
of Ohio ceGsures the Fugitive Slave Bill,
that of Virginia insults Vermont and Mnssa-
chusetts. So, that on the whole, the bal
ance is kept tolerably even. But how much
this inevitable state of things tends TO the
preservation of the Union, is matter every
man may have his own opinioa about.
The designs of the South for the yet fur
ihcr extension Of her bcuciiccn institutions,
have been made sufficiently manifest during
| the past year. The expedition of LOPEz
was, beyond all doubt, permitted to go for
ward in defiance of the Laws of Nations
and treaty obligations, MS a measure, which,
it successful, might lead to the further ex-
tension of the Area of Freedom, and, if not,
could be disuvowed and condemned. But
the interest which has been made, and sue
cessiuly, by the Government in behalf OF
those pirates, aud the removal of Consul
OWES for obeying the Proclamation of the
President, which he should have known
meant nothing, aud the appointment of the
infamous Judge SHARKEY as his successor,
all show the GnimuS of the General Govern
ment Aud so in the case of the attempt
now going on TO revolulionize Northern
! Mexico Inv CARyAJAL The uurnose is oh