United States_, to legislate in regard to its Abolition in said State,” &c. As this is a candid recognition of that part, and of those “_principles_ of _our_ Republican form of Government,” which we shall have occasion in another place to introduce in form, it is superfluous to quote the passages here, inasmuch as this Society, by its own confession, has done the work _for_ us, and _against_ itself. It is a simple question of _fact_; and that fact recognized, in express terms, by the Society, in the second article of its own Constitution, the assumption of the Preamble, in regard to this point, is proved to be _false_. Slavery, therefore, is _not_ contrary to the principles of _our_ Republican form of Government; and the Constitution of the United States, (Art. II. Sec. 2d. Clause 3d.) which we shall hereafter consider, recognises the _validity_ of property in the Slave, and engages to defend it throughout the Union; and it is well known, that, by the force of this law, runaway Slaves are habitually recovered. It will be understood, that we are not discussing the propriety of this law, but the fact. It is a “_principle_ of _our_ Republican form of Government;” and as would seem, a potent and paramount one. All the other principles of the American Anti-Slavery Society will avail nothing, _politically considered_, so long as they are false in this. They have hazarded their whole cause, in an open and seditious conflict with the Government of the United States, _on a false assumption as to fact_! We shall now proceed to a consideration of the seditious character of the ANNUAL REPORT of this Society, of 1838. This Society must now be viewed, as we have proved it to be, in the light of a grand and independent political organization, set up in the Republic, and at war with it--as an unconstitutional and self-erected corporation. Any political action it may assume, therefore, whether _for_ or _against_ the Republic, is unconstitutional. The Government wants not its help--certainly it has never asked for it--much less can it tolerate a conspiracy. What may be lawful for a private citizen to do, is unlawful for this Society as a political organization of its specific character. What may be lawful for popular assemblies, or associations, acting in the modes prescribed by the Constitution, for political ends, of whatever nature, is unlawful for this Society, because it is a body unknown to the Constitution and laws of the land. It is a State _within_ the State, that has asked no leave to be, that is prohibited by law, acting under a State machinery, disturbing the peace of the State, and threatening its overthrow.