The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

THE
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

'The British and North American snail steamer
Cambria arrived at Liverpool last night. She left
Now York at noon on Bth inst. Congress met on the
4th, and the President's message was sent in next
day. This document is as follows:

PILLOW CITISSIFF OP TRII 1111ATI,
MID OF PHI loud OF aIIiaIIOOKFATIVICS:
Voter the bealgasat provideses of Moist? , God, the
represseestime of the states end of the are eig.
•
beoaght beget** to deliberate for the pa
petit sde tithe salon to the Bovereage Alban eratilaamea
emits should be commeasurste with the hosadlesi blest*,
whisk we enjoy.
[The Presidest thee alludes to dte lab meats as the
lump* eantisset, sad matiaus :1
la reviewiag the peat mate of the east year, aad essa•
teeming the mewed sad disturbed state of other otantries
with ear sea usagail sad happy sondition, we may tea-
pratelets emsehos that we am the met favoured people ea
to ha of the earth. While the prole of other stook*
are fereggileg to emallith free fas*mtimy molar whiling&
may geitiot isismalf, we are to the selael mlopeent of them
--a risk *heritages from *sr *them While (It**
nations of Kamp an ostivehred sad Mantled Boil
seer se fatesdas strife, we settle ell ear ll 0211-
tromestre by the peaceful ezercese of the deists of freemen at
the bellovbox. The great repabliess maim, so deeply
tograma os dui hearts of oar people, that the will
asej, masramtketany eepromed, shell
is the
erity
oar sere safsemed against hoes sad vileevnest
of
It is • sairjost of jam pride, that oar Ins sal
Ammer es • meths evatines rapidly to advenee is
the orderlies of the Utilised world. TO war wise end
hot institutions it is to bs attributed, that while other
seldom ham athlete& glory at the pries el the ealf.o
W. dime* sad inspevershment of their people, we
have west oar hosoursble politica is the Wilt of an
uninterrupted prosperity, sad of ea imesselag indivldual
mesh* sad happiness. lam happ cte labia yea that oar
relations with ell nations are friendly. Moralisers,
treaties of tommares have bees meeladed with*
loot years with New Granola, Peru, the Two insilke,
Belgium, Homer, Oldeaburg, sad M
tkisweria. Pertain, oar esamito, the flier lit=
of Greet Britain, our prieeipal foreign cortomer,
has been relapse, • more Metal musareisl poi*,
bee been adopted by ether onlightseed &mites, sad
oar trade has bgreatly ealarpd and eau aded.—.
Oar country steads higher in the import of the world
timatideFlafonser pried. To matins* to omen thit
Lroad ,ft Is saly semseary to preserve peme. eat
7 •adhere to the great sad fuseseatel pima* of
oar long* pansy of amsfaterfereace fa the dostesels set
owes of other nations. We reoaguiss the rights wit***
enjoy ourselves, to sheep sad Mona their politkel IeMMO
flees aseordieg to their own will sad pheatre. Mimes IPS
do sot look behind *anise goveramests eaphle of mein.
Minim them own eatltorii7l We recepla an sale
easel govenueseta, not say from the dislike Ouse pal*,
but from • mend regard fee the imilepeedeate of statism
While this le ear esttled policy,it does net fellow * we
can ever bs WM** spectators of the progress of liberal
principles. The government and people of the United States
boiled pith mithuslann and delight the eetablislunent of the
French repablieois we now hail the Wale ia progress to
snits the atom of Giumsay is • osafederarAce similar in
many respects to oar own federal Oahe. If the
post sad eabgittened German Bats, oceupyieg se they do
• central and emensanding position in Europe, shall
summed is satabUshiag oath • eashderated govern-
meat, mud* at toe same time to the dtimasi,f cash
*ate local (oversewn* adapted to the pealier meditate
of sash with earestrieted sod *terseness with seek
other, it will be as issimemeat eta is the Wary of hums&
event& Whilst at will .ate and straw then tho
power of Germaay, it mast esesetially promote the aim of
peer, eassaurres, !titillative. sad sionstitatiostal liberty

earolutiout the world.
With all the goversumata an this eentissat oar relations,
It is believed. are now es a more friendly sad estiefastory
fasting them they have ever hew et shy former period
Nose the =shears of latificaticos of the treaty of .pease
with Menke, oar Minimum with the govorameat of that
'spatial has bees of the matt friendly character. The Envoy
Emeremodfrory end Minister Plenipetestiary of the:Volta
dales to 16121011 hm he.. received sod assredited ; end a
diplomates moreseststive lam Mexico of 'iodise rook has
boom reesimia sad moredited by :Mb gommusent. The
mambas relations between the two countries, which bad
boos saspesded, have bees happily restored, gni are
demised, I trust, to be hag preserred. The two republics,
bah eitmeasil es this matioest, sad with coterminous territo-
✓ies, have easy et sympathy and of interest to bind
theta testae' imperilual amity.
Ose of the most important rondo of the war into which
we wore recently locoed with • neighbouring nation, is th..
iemeonserstioa it has elforded of the military strength of our
coantry. Belem the late war with Naito°, European sod
*titer torsion pewees entertained imperfect sad erroneous
views of oar physical eteongtiz as • moos, and of ha- ability
to presto:oh war, and eipsdally a war waged out of our owe
ociaotry. They mw that oar steadies army, on the peso.
establishmeat, did set owned ten dimmed sun. Ac-
customed themselves to essiatein, in paw, large stand-
lag armies, for the protection of throats, against their
owe satzjacta, as w. h as splint foreign enemies they
bad not arrived that it was possible for a ottani with-
out mob as army, well diemplined end of loop oar
via, to wage war suessofally. They held is low repute
our militia, aid were far tea regarding them as sa area
nye fares, ashes it might be for the tempaearT doh uh*
alarmism when burred an owe emu edL The erre
et the late war with Mexico have not may andoorived
them, Oat hare removed erroneous impressioss midi*
prevailed to omit /swat ewes omen a portion of our
own ommtrystss. That war bat deasosstrased that upon
the breakieg out of humilities sot anticipated, Asa ler width
no
provisos peeparatios had been made, a TJIIIMOOT emu el
shims Killeen, opal to veteran troops, and in suemome
hpsal to say inetiesty, am, u'abort period, be brought
Ono WeA.M. Balite what 'mold hove ocenrsed is any ,
other ouswv, we IMO eider if) MOOtiety of ranotlng
to drafts ue etabaraiptioes. Oa the conosey, emelt was
the asselor of weluateers who patriotically etiola ted
their serviont, that the chief difilealw was rta
sideetions and ilehessising who should be de
and oompolloi to semein at Loom. Our aftiam-soldien
saliiis those draws from dett population of any eitioreavolurl
Temp are compsesd jadiscriminately of all profusion and!
wails ;oy roma% labourersss, merchants,
lemon. re, asealtsaise and ; seed thie, not only sewn,
the adhere, but the paints "oldies, In the ranks. Ow:
shims-moldier are sable those of say seeker otiostor
in other respects. The, are snood, sod have hem'
sceustemed from their youth op to Ladle sad mos
firearm; and • large peepartion of them, eepsOally be
the wastes sad more mewl, settled states. are =riot woke.
sum TIN, are toes who ham • mipatatioa to maiatin
home by their good modest la the field. The, ore WWII.
prat, sad Wire is an iadiaidaality at 'barmier which it
Lead in the mks dm other army. Ia MOAN each private
ass. as well as 'miry dicer, Aphis sot elf fee his cosatry,
bat the glory and distiestiau moos Its ilifeweleinens whoa
be shad return to civil lite. After sem. foram deeds re.
opestisi the war, the President lays
his bat as all of jambs to dales, that ties ahem
Is sharp of the several exesuitive bureaux, all osier
the humdiats eye aid aspersion of the B of
Wes. performed their respective dative with • ,
onaqiy, and elikiemoy. They hero reaped lees if the
glory/ of the war, sot having bass perstioally exposed
to Is perits in bahls. titan foie companione is arse;
hat without their foram; efficient aid, and co
lost•
thaw is the field would not have been provided with
the ample means they pooseerod of achieving for themselves
sad their swats, the Waling honours which they here
won for both.
Whoa all them facts are smoldered.
It may asses to be a
nutter of so much arsevetent abroad how it hugesod that
oar *obis army in Woke, regulars and volumene, were
vicheines upon every battlafield, however feerfal the odds
spinet them.
The war with Mexico has thus fully dieoloped eko capacity
of republican governments to promote successfully a just
sad mother, foreign war withall Maoism' uutally attributed
to more arbitrary forms of government. It has beset usual
for writen on patella law to impute to republoe • want of
that lenity, catoentratiza of purpote, and vigour at ezacatioa
which are generally &data's% to Wort to the in
and arreeratio forma; and this feature of popular vent-
meat has been award to display itself more ly
the "Gadget of a war earrisd ea is an enemy's territory. The
war with Great Britain, M 1812, was tom groat extent mar
fined within oar own limits, and shed but little light on this
satijio. But the war which we have just closed by as
honourable pesos evinces hyoid all demist that a popular
representative goverumant is equal to say 'gauges°, which
is likely to aria: in the Alin el a Bathe.
The war with Mt mho has developed most strikingly sad
sonspicaoualy another hatan is sew nostitutioss. It is, that
without met to the goverment or dagger q our liber.irs,
we have, in the bosom eel oar sillily of fromers available in
a jam an neeesear, war, charily a shading ;nay of two
aiding of armed stiossookliers,rack ea fought at the baths
of Menem.
Bat oar military stremith dose not consist ahem in oar
empasity tor extended sad imetemeral operations co lead. The
navy is an imp "mat arm of the national deism. If Ul• to..
vies of the navy were net se brilliant es this elf the easy is
the late mu. with Modem it was became they had me mow
to meet on their *wit akimost. Will. the army hod oppor-
tunity of performing aters toupiesome service, the
Its of
Is the modem of the war.
of the smite performed their whole duty to
the enamory. Poe the aide sad gallant services of the
sears and men of the navy--acting Inds
ill_ardently r
well as is imi-operaties with our ma.