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,MEIIJCAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
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WAsmixtyrox, DiC. 7, 0211.
is day, at 12 o'clock, the President of the United
States annsuunicatoll to bath Houses of .Congress titoefflo
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AIESSA GE :
trellmr.eitirene of the **We, esti of the
Howe of Repreeentativer.
Me view which I have now to prosent to you of our Waits,
Anglin sod domestic, realizes the most sanguine anticipations which
Bove been entertained of the public prosperity. If we look to the
whole, our growth, as • nation, continues to be rapid beyond ex-
ample: if to the States which compose it, the same gratifying
spectacle is exhibited. Our expansion over the vast territory with-
in our limits. has been groat. without indicating any decline in
those sections from which the migration has been most conspieu-
We have daily gained brength, by a naive population, in
a quarter : a popuhisionallomed to our happy system of govern-
ment, and cherishing_ the bog Sc union with fraternal affection.
Experience has alreadoodolewe the diffroence of climate, and
elf Iticlustry proceeding HMO ebeekinseparable from such vast
domains, and which. under twenties, might have a repulsive
tredency, cannot liii_tiarssiess with us, ender wise tegulatioos,
- - this
effect.' Ines one potion wants the other may supply,
this will be aim seboibly felt by the parts most distant from
other, forming *Web, a domestic market, and an active inter-
- between the extremes. and throughout every part of our
• Thee, by a lumpy distribution of power between the Na.
and State Governments, governments which met exclusively
re severeignty of the people, and are folly adequate to the
purposes for which they were respectively instituted, causes
might otherwise lead to dismemberment, operate powerfully
• us closer together. In 'every other circumstance, a correct
the aetnal state of our Union must be equally gratifying to
oar ecasentomits. Our relation, with Foreign Powers are of a
f
character, although certain interesting differences remain
with louse. Our revenue, under the mild system of im.
OW sad tonnage-matinees mire adequate to all the purposes of the
Otreernotent.• •oar agriculture, commerce. !suntan-titr
navigation flourish. Our fortilleations are advancing in the
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Watatoriatel by existing appropriations, to maturity ; and thsepopol
=dlls male in the augmentation of the navy, to the limit real
for it by law. , For these blessings, we owe to Almighty'
.Getaa from whom we derive them, and with profound reverent%
Age OM grateful and unceasing acknowledgmeets.
...Jill ablerang to our relations with Foreign Powers, which ale
MOO as dace of the highest importance, I have to remark, thin
oefalsettibjects which have been brought into discussion with them
eladeet the present administration, some have been satisbewelap
Cased:noted ;'others have been sesoceded to be resented hereafter, ,
circumstances more favourable to success ; and others are
m negotiation, with the hope that they may be seaweed with
Axel accommodation to the interests, and to the satisfactiee Sc
alltallepective parties. It has 'been the invariable object 4461
-00eilenthent to cherish the most friendly relations Pith -ferry
Potts, sad on principles and conditions which might make them
=erre A systematic effort has' been made to place our com-
with each Power on a footing of perfect reciprocity ; to settle
iwith each, in a spirit of candour and liberality, all existing differ.
emcee, and to anticipate and remove, so far as it might be peace-
cable, all causes of future variance.
It having been stipulated, by the Seventh Article of the Cotten.
ties of Navigation and Commerce, which WAS concluded on the
.Uth June, 18.22, between the United States and France, that the
said Convention should continue in force for two years from the Ist
• Aof ablterber of that year. and for an indefinite term afterwards, on-
, eof the parties should declare its intention to renounce it, in
seuveetintdietelsahroautilodn ;
ceasesnd tae toopseurachteianttetuhteionenidavoifogaixbetemonan.tbs
'...tfi.. the Convention having been found advantageous to both
..a. , it has since remained ar.d still remains in full force. At
Isbeairoe when that Convention was concluded, many interesting
...atubjects were left artsettled, and particularly our claims to imams.
nay for epoliatimil which were committed on our commerce to
..oje late wars. Votabese interests tied claims, it was in the content-
paition of the palates -"melte provision at a subsequent day, by a
more comprehensiVe aiall hive treaty. The object has been
aas :.duly to finer by tee eeutive, but yet it has not been
le
eccomprishera. It is hop • rat a favourable opportunity will
present itaar for opening a negotiation, which may embrace and
..arrange all existing differehces, and every other concern in which
they have • common interest, timm the accession of the present
(Ring of France. an event which has occurred since the close of the
tut session of empress.
11 ith Great Britain our commercial intercourse rests on the same
''footing that it dad at the last Session. By the Convention of 1816,
the commerce 'between the United States and the British dominions
. Europe and the East Indies, was arranged on a principle of
reciprocity. Tato Convention was confirmed and continued in
-force, with slight exceptions, by a subsequent treaty, for the term
of ten ,years, from the iftth of Goober, 1818, the date of the latter.
The trodbirith the British Colonies in the West Indies has not,
se yet, been arranged by treaty, or otherwise, to one satisfaction.
In approach to that result has been made by legislative Acts.
whereby 'neer serious impediments which had been raised by the
patties, in difence of their respective claims, were removed. An
earnest desire exists, and has been menifested, on the part of this
°worriment, to place the commerce with the colonies, likewise, on
• footing of reciprocal advantage, anti it is hoped that the British
'vernment, seeing the justice of the proposal, and its importance
colonies, will, ere long, accede to it.
to Commissioners who were appointed for the adjustment of
boundary between the territo: ies of the United States and those
Great Crania specified in the fifth article of the treaty of
/tient, having disagreed in their decision, and both Governments
'having agreed to establish that boundary by amicable negoeiation
—between them, it is hoped that it may be satisfactorily adjusted in
that mode. The boundary specified by the sixth article has been
• established by the decision of the Comtrastamers. ['Tom the pro-
ess made in that provided for by the seventh, according to a
Report recently received, there is good cause to presume that it
ill be settled in the course of the ensuing year.
is a cause of scriorei regret, that no arrangement has yet been,
concluded between the two Governments, to secure, icy joint
co.opetation, the suppression of the slave trade. It-was the object
if the British Government, in the early stages of the negocistem,
( adopt a clan for the suppression. which should include the con.
cession of time mutual right of search, by the ships of war of each
'arty, of the vessels of the other, for suspected offenders. This
- objected to by this Governntent, on the principle that as the
of search was a right of war, of a belligerent towards a neutral
r, it might have an ill effect to extend it, by treaty, to an of-
which had been trade comparatively mild, to a time of peace.
nxiatis, however, for the suppression of this trade, it was thought
ivisable, in compliance witli-a resolution of the House of Repro.
(entativet, founded on an Act of Congress, to propose to the British
Goveinment an expedient, which should be free from that objet.
at; and mere effectual fur the object, by making it piratical. is
,t mode. the enormity of the crime would place the offenders out
A the protection of their Government, and involve no question of
search, or other question between the parties, touching their re-
spective rights. It was believed, also, that it would completely
suppress the trade, in the vessels of both parties, and by their
mpectivetitizetis and subjects in those ofother powers, with whom
was hoped that the odium which would thereby be attached to
mold produce a corresponding arrangement, and by means thew
Its entire extirpation for ever. A Convention to this effect wee
Jaded and signed in London, on the 13th day of el arch, 1824,
Plenipotentiaries duly authorised by both Governments, to the za-
cation of which certain obstacles have arisen which are not entirely
roved. 'flit differences between the parties still remaining
been reduced to a point not of sufficient magnitude, as is pre_
el, to be permitted to defeat an object so near to the heart of
nations, and so desirable to the friends of humanity through-
-a the woad. As objections, however, to the principle recom.
wooded by time House of Representatives, or at least to the conse-
quences inseparable from it. and which are understood to apply to
the law, hove been raised, which may deserve a reconsideration of
s whole subject, I have thought it proper to suspend the condo-
s of a new convention until the detininve sentiments of Congress
be net:twined. The documents relating to the negotiations
with that. Intent, eobraitted to your consideration.
ur.oonneree with tiweden has been placed one footing of ps
reciprocity, by deity ; and•Otth Roaming aim Netherlaralaa.
six, time tree Hanseatic Cities, the Dukedoms of Oldenburg
lardinie, by internal regulations on each aide, founded on ma-
agreement between the respective Governments.
: principles upon which the commercial policy of the United
is !auntie& are to be traced to an early period. They are
daily connected with those upon which their independence wee
tassel, and ore their origin to the enlightened men who took the
'in our affairs at that important epoch. They are developed
ir first treaty of cotomerce with France, of (heath of February,
and by a fortnal a omminion, which was instituted iMine•
ly after the conclusion of their revolutionary struggle, for the
tote of negociating treaties of cmuinerce with every European
cr. The first twenty of the United States with Prussia, which
negaciated by that commission, affords • signal illustration of
t principles. The act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1016,
ted immediately after the return of a genernl peace, was a new
ire to foreign nations, to establish our commercial relatisea
them, an the basis of free and equal reciprocity. That prin.
has pervaded all the senor (:ongows, and all the negotiations
e Executive on the subject since.
Convention for the settlement of important questions. in re.
-1 to the North. west roast of this continent, and its adjoining
was concluded end signed at St. Petersburgh, on the
_last, by the elinistar Plenipotentiary of the United
eel', and Plenipotentiaries of the I.npenal Government of Russia.
will immediately be laid before the Senate, fur the exercise of
e conflated:mai authority of that body, with reference to its rati-
saw. It is proper to add, thut the manner in which this nego.
ition was invited and conducted, on the part of the Emperor, has
'n very satisfactory.
'he great and extraordinary changes which have happened in
iovernment of Spain and Portugal, within the last two years,
lout seriously affecting the friendly relations which, under all
them. have born maintained with those Powers. -by the United
tot. have been obstacles to the adjustment of the particular
tects of discussion which have arisen with each. A resolution
Senate. solopted at their last Session, milled for lafiromation,
the effect produced upon our relations with Spain, by the re.
atition, on the part of the United States, of the independent
_moth American Governments. The papers containing that inky.
made% are now communicated to Congress.
A Charge d'Affaires has been received from the independent ao-
erernment of Brazil. That country, heretofore a colonial possession
of Portugal, had some yens since beenzroclaimed, by the Soarer
reign of Portugal biuiself, an indepeu cr.' kingdom. Since his

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