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Inj friendly p9licy, which .bas invariably guided our I 1 of our count:pee desferiew-whiels they exhibit is ,
be reciprocated, a just and satisfactory ar- h rly gratifying. The payments which have i
ccencils,
ell gement may be expected. It is proper, however, made into the Treasury shew
the very ptedect
to remark, that no proposition has yet been made, state of the public revenue. After
satisfying the iti
from which such a result can be presumed. propriations made by law for the support of the civie
elt was anticipated, at an early stage, that the government, and of the military and naval establish-
owe between Spain and the colonies would become meats, embracing suitable pnerision for fertifications
highly interesting to the United States. It was na- and for the gradual increase of the navy, payieg the
nee that our citizens should sympathise in events interest of the public debt, and extinguishing more
vhirb affected their neighbours. It seemed probable than eighteen millions of the principal, within the
we that the prosecution of the conflict along our present year, it is estimated that a balance of more
coast, and in contiguous countries, would
affect
than six millions of dollars will remain in the Tree-
nely interrupt our commerce and otherwise affect sury on the first day of January, applicable to the
our citizens. These an- current service orate ensuing year.
the persons and property of.
eipations have been realized. Such injuries have " The payments into the Treasury durink the year
tbeen enee from persons acting under the autho- 1818, on account of imposts and tonnage, resulting
rity of both the parties, and for which redress has, principally from duties which have accrued in the
is most instances, been withheld. Through every present year, may be fairly estimated at 20 millions
stage of the conflict, the United States have main- of dollars ; internal revenuesnds, at two ll
five
,five
tailed an impartial neutrality, given aid to neither hundred thousand ; public la at one million
of the parties in men, money, ships, nor munitions of hundred thousand ; bank dividends and incidental
, They have regarded the contest, not in the receipts, at five hundred thousand ; making, in the
light of an ordinary insurrection or rebellion, but as whole, twenty-four millions and five hundred thou-
a civil war between pasties nearly equal, having, as sand dollars.
to neutral powers, equal rights. • • " The annual permanent expenditure for the sup-
. Our ports have been open to both, and every port of the Civil Government, and of the Army and
article, the fruit of our soil, or of the industry of Our Navy, as now established by law, amounts to eleven
citizens, which either was permitted to take, has millions eight hundred thousand dollars ; and for the
been equally free to the other. Should the Colonies Sinking Fund to ten millions ; making in the whole
establish their independence, it is proper now to state, twenty-one millions eight hundred thousand dollars ;
that this Government neither seeks nor would accept leaving an annual excess of revenue beyond the ex-
from them any advantage, in commerce or otherwise, penditure, of two millions seven hundred thousand
which will not be equally open to all other nations, dollars, exclusive of the balance estimated to be in
The Colonies will, in that event, become independent the treasury on the first day of January 1818.
States; free from any obligation to, or connexion with eln the present state of the treasury, the whole
us, which it may not then be their interest to form on of the Louisiana debt may be redeemed in the year
the basis of a fair reciprocity. 1819 ; after which, if the public debt continues as it
a In the summer of the present year an expedition now is, above par, there will be annually about flee
was set on foot against East Florida, by persons millions of the sinking fund unexpended, until the
claiming to act under the authority of some of the year 1825, when the loan of 1812, and the stock
Colonies, who took possession of Amelia Island, at created by funding treasury notes, will be redeemable.
the mouth of the St. Mary's River, near the boon- "It is also estimated that the Mississippi stock
dary of the State of Georgia. will be discharged during the year 1819, from the
" As this Province lies eastward of the river Mis- proceeds of public lands assigned to that object ; after
sissippi, and is bounded by the United States and the which the receipts of those lands will annually add
Ocean on every side, and has been a subject of nego- to the public revenue the sum of one million five
nation with the Government of Spain, as an indent- hundred thousand dollars, making the permanent
sity for losses by spoliation, or in exchange for ter ri annual revenue amount to twenty-six millions of dol-
tory of equal value westward of the Mississippi—a tars, and leaving an annual excess of revenue, after
fact well known to the world—it incited surprise that the year 1819, beyond the permanent authorised ex-
any countenance should be given to this measure by pcnditure, of mere than four millions of dollars.
any of the Colonies. As it would be difficult to re- eßy the last returns from the Department of War,
concile it with the friendly relations existing between the militia force of the several States may be estima-
thc United States and the Colonies, a doubt was en- ted at eight hundred thousand men, infantry, arta-
tatained whether it had been authorized by them, or cry and cavalry. Great part of this force is armed,
any of them. This doubt has gained strength, by and meesures are taken to arm the whole. An int-
the circumstances which have unfolded themselves Prorrmrt in the organization and discipline of the
militia, is one of the great objects which claims the
is the prosecution of the enterprise, which have =remitted attention of Con .
marked it as a Mere private Unauthorized adventure. e The. lar force amounts nearly to the number
Projected and commenced with an incompetent force, required by law, and is• stationed along the Atlantic
reliance seems to have been placed on what might be and inland frontiers.
" Of the naval force, it has been necessary to
drawn, in defiance of our laws, from within Our
maintain strong squadrons in the illieriterranean, and
limits; and of late, as their resources have failed, it •
m the Gulf of Mexico.
has assumed a more marked character of unfriendli- " From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting
ness to us, the island being made a channel for the the country bordering on bake Erie, purchases have
illicit introduction of slaves from Africa into the been made of lands, on conditions very favourable to
United States, an asylum for,fugitive slaves from the the United. States, and, as it is presumed, not less so
to the tribes themselves. By these purchases,
the
neighbouring States, and a port for smuggling of Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been ex-
every kind. tinguished to the whole of the land within the li-
" A similar establishment was made at an earlier mits of the State of Ohio, and to a great part of that
period, by persons of the same description, in the in the Michigan territory, and of the State of Indi-
Gulph of Mexico, at a place called Galvezton, within ana. From the Cherokee tribe
i a track has been pur-
the I • mits of the United States, as we contend under chased, in the State of Georgia, and an arrangement
made, by which, in exchange for lands beyond the
the cession of Louisiana. This enterprize has been Mississippi, a great part, if not the whole, of the land
marked, in a more signal manner, by all the objet- belonging to that tribe, eastward of that river, in the
tionable circumstances which characterised the other, States of North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee,
and more particularly by the equipment of privateers and in the Alabama Territory, will soon be acquired.
By these acquisitions, and others, that may
which have have annoyed our commerce, and by smuggling.
nobly be expected nto follow, we shall be enabled
These establishments, if ever sanctioned by any au- to extend our settlements from the inhabited parts of
thority whatever, which isnot believed, have abused the State of Ohio, along Lake Erie, into the Michi-
their trust, and forfeited all claim to consideration. gan territory, and to connect our settlements, by. de-
A just regard for the rights and interests of the grees, through the State of Indiana and the Illinois
United States required that they should be sup- teril„tA° lame'
re to that of Missouri.
pressed, and orders have accordingly issued to that soon be produced to the south, through the whole
effect. The imperious considerations which pro- extent of the States and territory, which border on
duced this measure will be explained to the parties, the waters emptying into the Mississippi and the
whom it may, in any degree, concern. Mobile. In this progress, which the rights of Na-
" To obtain correct information on every subject tare demand, and nothing can prevent, marking a
gro rapid and gigantic, it is our duty to Make
in which the United States :are interested, to inspire wth
new efforts for the preservation, improvement, and
just sentiments in all persons in authority, on either civilization of the native inhabitants. The Minter'
side, of our friendly disposition, so far as it may con- state can exist only in the vast uncultivated desort- j
port with an impartial neutrality ; and to secure pro- It yields to the more dense and compact form, and
greater force, of civilized population ; and of right
per respect to our commerce, in every port, and from
ought to yield, for the earth population
given to mankind
every flag, it has been thought proper to send a ship to support the greatest number of which it is capable,'
of war, with three distinguished citizens, along the and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from
southern coast, with instructions to touch at such the wants of others more than is necessary for their`
ports as they may find most expedient for these pur-
ng
pos. With the existing authorities, with those in townha t :11 support and
reservations
frt-lanldt is
gardetifer thet° knows"
with thee tribes on Lake° Erie, were madey with a view:
the
niusr_ssession of, and exercising the sovereignty, to individual ownership among them, and to the
can the communication be held : from them alone cultivation of the soil by all, and that an annual
redress for past injuries, committed by persons stipend has been pledged to supply their other wants,„
acting under them, be obtained ; by them alone can It will merit the consideration of Congress whether
the commission of the like, in future, be prevented. other provisi • • on, not stipulated by the treaty, ought
" OW relations with the other Powers of Europe to be made for these tribes, and for the advance-.
have
experienced no essential change since the last meat of the liberal and humane policy cf the thiii
Session. In our intercourse with each, due attention States towards all the tribes within our limits.
continues to be paid to the protection of our corn- more particularly for their improvement in tbsilitilof
coerce, and to every other object in which the United civilized life. ..tul 40
a
St_ es are interested. A strong hope is entertained, e Among the advantages incident to theielkif,
that, by adhering to the maxims of a just, a candid, chases, and to those which have preceded the scene;
and friendly •
policy, we may long preserve amicable rity which may thereby be afforded to our inhmS•
relations with all the Powers of Europe, on conditions fr • is peculiarly important. With sulk'
frontiers,
advantageous and honourable to our country. barrier, consisting of our own people, thus Sante
. With the Barbary States and the Indian Tribes on the Lakes, the Mississippi and the Mobile, With
cur pacific relations have been preserved. e the protection to be derived from the regular forcer
"In calling your attention to the internal concerns i Indian hostilities; if they do not altogether cease,