Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1824-12-10
RRMsTDEEgN's 7MEssAaE.

Washington, Dec. 7, 1924
This nv nj IL o'clock, the President of the Uni
tel States communicated 10 both Houses of
Congress the following
MESSAGE:
Feliop Ci'iSens IF the Senate
and Horse of Representatives
The view which have now 10 present
10 YOU Of our affairs, Foreign and Domestic.
realizes the most sanguine anticipations,
which have been entertained of the public
prosperity. VI we look to the whole, our
growth. as nation, continues TO be rapid,
compose it. the same gratifying spectacle is
exhibited Our expansion over the vast
territory within our limits, has been great,
without Indicating any decline in those sec
tons from which the emigration has been
most conspicuous. We have daily pained
STRENGTH nv native population in every
qnar'er-a popn'a'inn devoted to our hap
py session. 1T government, and cherishing
the bond 'f union with fraternal affection
Evnrr'ence has hardly shown. thai the
di""rrrre of climate and of industry. pro-
din" from that cause, inSeparable from
such vast domains, and which, under other
systems. M hit have n repulsive tendency.
cannot fail TO produce. with us, under wise
REGULATIONS. the orrosite effect. What one
portion wants the other may supply, and
this VIII he most sonsiblv felt by the parts
most distant from each other, FORMING.
thereby, domestic market, and an active
intercourse between the extremes, and
throushou every portion of our Union
Thus, by a happy distribution of power
between the National and State Govern
nentS, governments which rest exclusive
iy on the sovereignty of the. People, and
which are fully adequate to the great pur-
poses for which they were respectively in
stituted, Causes which might otherwise lead
10 ACKNOWLEDGMENT, operate powerfully to
draw us closer together. in every other
circumstance, a correct view of the actual
state OF our Union, must be equally graft
tying 10 our constituents. Our relations
with foreign powers are of friendly cha
racter, although certain interesting difleren-
ccs remain unsettled with some. Our re-
venue, under the mild system of impost
and tonnage, continues to be adequate to
al! the purposes of the Government. Our
agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and
navigation, flourish. Our Notifications are
advancing in the degree authorized by ex-
istsng appropriations. TO maturity and due
progress is made in the augmentation of
the Navy, to the limit prescribed for it by
law. For these blessings, we owe 10 Al
mighty God, from whom we derive them.
and with profound reverence, our most
grateful and Inceasing acknowledgements.
In advertlng to our relations with for
eign powers, which are always an obiec;
OF the highest Importance, | have 10 re-
mark, that of the subjects which nave been
brought into discussion with them during
the present Administration, some have
been satisfactorily terminated; Others have
been suspended, to be resumed hereafter.
und9f circumstances more favorable to sue
cess; and others are still in negotiation.
with the nope that they may be adjusted,
VIII mutual accommodation to the interests
and to the satisfaction of the respective
parties. 1t has been the invaria5e object
VI 'iIo Cps ciJs-lSlt- 10 Cherish the most
friendly relations with every power, and
On principles and conditions which might
make them permanent. A systematic ef-
ioT 11S been made to place our commerce
with each power, on a footing Of perfect
reciprocity; to settle with each, in spirit
ct candor and liberaIity, all existing differ
cnees, aud 20 anticipate and remove, so far
Us i'mignt be practicable, all causes Of fu-
ture variance.
II having been 5 .puIatpd blythe Seventh
Ariel of the Convention OF Navigation
and Commerce, which was concluded on
the t@easy-ioJrt!l juno, eighteen hundred
and twanty-two. between the United States
AMI France, hut the said Convention
slIoall con.i1uc in force two years, from
'hr inst Of Octob =, of that year, and for
az indefinite tern forwards, unless one Of
~ parties should declare its intention to
Fenodnce q, IL which event, it shond cease
:" o2ertts 4" The end of SIX months, from
S"cI Declaration and, no such intention
having been announced, TIC Convention
having bc'n found advantageous % both
l'''ies; . IRIS since remained, and Sal re-
'a1Ds, IL f5.cc. st tie tine when tbs,