The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-11

League. The Board returns it's thanks to the
mittee for the care and fidelity with which their
trust has been discharged, and renews TO the COM
mtiee the expression of hdenee tanned In
last ann ual report
| On the lst of December, 1866, the roll of the
| League contained the names of nineteen hundred
! and seventy members OF these two hundred
| and eighty. nine were elected during the current
| year. We deplore the loss of twenty-five of our
members by death. There have been fifty -four
after having been suspended from membership for
non-payment of their annual dues were finally
dropped from the roll, in accordance with the by
iaWs. once more let us urge upon our members
The duty of inducing others of our political creed
TO Join In our association, and give additional
weight and value to our corporate action by their
welcome presence and counsel.
The reports of the treasurer and of the auditors
for the present year havs been laid upon the table
for examination. The income of the League to
the first of December, 1866, amounted to eighty-hve
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars
and twenty cents. The disbursements to the same
period were sxty-seven thousand nine hundred
0nd thirty one dollars and two cents, leaving
surplus in the treasury of seventeen thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and
eighteen cents It's impossible 10 form an accu-
rate estimate of the outstanding bills chargeable
against this surplus The payments for the re-
pairs Of the damage by the fire have already be-
gun, and there were various expenses incident TO
he fire that form no part of our regular ontlay,
which the treasurer was obliged to meet during the
present year.
Notwithstanding the immense advance in the
prices of all articles used in establishment-an
advance of which our members may judge by re-
ference TO their domestic anairs-and the extraor-
dlnaIy and heavy expenses enlailed upon us by the
IRE and the additional work projected in our plans
for rebuilding the damaged portions of the house
the Directors are confident that with the small in
crease made in the annual tax for the year 1867,
Board will find itself in a position OF financial
ase and that the close of the next year will show
tie treasury OF the League to be in it's usual flour
shing condition,
the general prospects of the League were never
more 1atterlDg than on the day of rendering this
report. An unabated public interest precedes,
companies and follows every movement of our
body. Our political friends have greeted us with
/ air nrNlQU and nn~ aVnIa hnv
honored us with their denunciations. Both these
expressions of feeling are equally tributes that re-
cognize our services. 1t seems as though nothing
more remains to us than to persevere steadily in
our old courses, and to follow our traditions and
| principles to the end. We are satisfied with the
harmonious spirit that at present impels our AS
socation, and can only hope that it will never de-
cline in vgor or lapse into the dangerous security
| Our future duties are plain before us. In the
possible struggle that may at no distant day arise
! between Congress and that body which was once
our Administration, we shall stand with the Con-
gress of our recent choice, rather than with the
| men who have betrayed us, and whom we have
also repudated. Rumors come to us from the Capt.
tol that it is the deegn of the Executive to seek
some means of reconciliation between himself
| and our faithful representatives Trust him not!
! The friendship of such man is the most dan
gerous thing about him. The fret treachery may
be his crime, but the second act will be the folly of
his victims With our overwhelming majorities
in both branches of Congress, we have need for
his services beyond that limit which the Oonstitu-
| ion imposes upon him. Veal know what would
! he the consequences of his infringement of that
| sacred document. warnings are already in the
air that he may heed or not according TO the mea-
| sure of his wisdom The position of the Union
party during the continuance of his term of Office
is assured one from which we cannot be driven,
! and should not be seduced We have had enough
Of compromises. The Missouri Compromise, which
| now almost belongs TO our ancient history, was
proof of the short. ghedness of those who tamper
| with truth and justice for the sake>of tempo
| rary peace Whenever a lie a false princi-
| pie arises in the land, let strike 1t down; and
the sooner the blow falls and the battle is fought
out son that line" the better for all concerned
! IN the contest. To postpone the evil day is to
| double the volume of it's wrath.
| If we Americans have not taken these truths to
heart, we have fought through long war, and
gained great results in the struggle, but we have
! gathered little wisdom by the way The questions
between us and the people of the south snould be
settled but in one way, by the infexible advance
| ment of the principles for which we fought, and
| by which they fell. This is the only solution of
the difficulties which people will tolerate and
it therefore the only adjustment that can be per-
manent. Let Congress stand by the time tried
! principles of the Union party; let US stand by
Congress in its efforts to put those principles into
practice, and If that which call "truth" be no:
false in its own nature, all will be we'll with u.s.
and in the long result of time all will be we'll with
| our unrehecting adversaries.
BY order of the Board of Directors,
GEORGE H. BOXER, Secretary.