Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-27

OF the American Anti-slavery Society by the Ex-
ecutive Committee, at the annual meeting held
in New York May 7th, 1856. with an Appendix.
New Ymk American AAti-Sluvery Society, No.
Us Nassau-s treet, 1856.
We have just been favored with q copy of this
interesting Report, which it as usual contains n
valuable historic account Of the operations of the
Society and its auxiliaries, as well as OF the promi.
nent events connected with the cause Of freedom,
which have transpired during the current year Of
the Society's operations.
The Treasurer reports the receipts for the year,
for the Society and its auxiliaries. at $685. GAG So
Expenditures, 500. l3S. 90.
We copy an extract or two from the Report
Speaking of the Republican party it says:
but let the Republican party do what it may
we cannot too often nor too earnestly admonish
Abolitionists that, even it it performs all that it
promises, it is not the work which they have pro-
posed to do, but only ar incidental service demand
ed by the ~exigency of the moment, and one which,
if done ut nil, must be done quickly by that over.
whelming majority of the people who do not SYM
pa;hize with, even if they understand the radical
character, the stern necessity, and tue deep import
of the Anti, Slavery movement. Iowever eainest
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important the end they have in view, they act and
must act as politicians under the Constitution and
within the limits which it prescribes and when
their end is gaiued, they will still leave the system
of Slavery, with all its constitutional guarantees,
unimpaired and unquestioned. They cannot MS a
party, even propose tho emancipation of n singh
slave in any of the Southern States. nor rid them
selves, if they should seek to do so, Of the RESPONSE
bil;ty which belongs to the nation for the %continu.
ance of the system. IL is not merely that their duty
will be, should they ever attain to the possession Of
the Federal Government, to perform in certain
emergencies, certain positive acts for the support
and in defence of slavery; that the President Of
their choice must preserve domestic tranquility by
promptly suppressing any attempt of the slaves to
achieve their own freedom by force of arms, provr
ded such an attempt is SO far successful that the
masters alone are unable to control it that officers
of their choosing. or appointed with their consent
must capture, if they can, and return to bondage
every man or woman who has had the spirit or the
intelligence to escape from il; that the Govern
ment, in their hands, must ensure the due perform
ance of this Constitutional duty. the Congress O.
their creation voting directly the requisite means
but that they consent to administer IL government il
conjunction with men in it's national council whc
are there, not as the representatives. Of the people
but Of an oligarchy founded solely upon an assn
med right Of property in human beings and thai
y fundamental principle Of that government il thai
il exists only on condition that it shall assent, with
out interference and without question. to the en-
slavemcnt of une-sixth OF the people by only one
sixtieth of the whole number. But one character
can inhere ia a government 80 yiciously constituted
as this, in which the balance Of power is thus pul
into the hands of n small compact and intelligen,
body of men. with whom politics is the chief inter
est of life, and political success the goal of all am
bition; whose existence, as II recognized part of the
state, depends upon their loyalty to their own or