Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-12-10
Presidents Message.
feaow Citizens ofhe Senate.


and d the House # Representatives.
The view which have now to pre-.
sent to YOU, of our affairs, foreign and
domes site, realizes the most sanguine
anticipations which have been enter.
tanned, of the public prosperity. If
we look to the whole, CUR growth as
nation, continues TO be rapid beyond
example; if to the states which com
pose it, the same gratifying spectacle
is exhibited. Our expansion over the
vast territory within our limits, has
been great, without indicating any de-
cline in those sections from which the
emigration has been most ausplclous
We have daily gained strength, by a
native population in every quarter:
population devoted to our happy sys.
TEN of government, aud cherishiDg the
bond of union with fraternal affection.
Experience has already shown, that
the difference of climate, and of indus.
try proceeding from that cause, inse
parable from such vast domains, and
which, under other systems, might
have repulsive tendency cannot fail to
produce with US, under wise regula
tons, the opposite effect. What one
portion wants, the other may supply,
and this will be most sensbly felt by
the parts most distant from each other,
forming thereby domestic market,
and an active intercourse between the
extremes, and throughout every por-
ton of our union. Thus, by happy
distribution of power between the ma.
tional and state governments; govern.
ments which rest, exclusively, on the
sovereignty of the people. and are fully
adequate to the great purposes for
which they were respectively institu-
ted, causes which might otherwise lead
to ACKNOWLEDGMENT, operate powerfully
to draw us close together. In every
other circumstance, correct view OF
the actual state of our union. must be
equally gratifying to our constituents.
Our relations with foreign powers are
of a friendly character, although Ger.
tain interesting differences remain un.
settled with some Our revenue, IN.
der the mild system of impost and ton
mage, continues TO be adequate to all
the purposes of the government. Our
agriculture, commerce, manufactures
and navigation, flourish. Our forti6-
cations are advancing, in the degree
authorized by existing appropriations,
TO maturity; and due progress is made
in the augmentation of the navy, to
the limit prescribed for If by law. For
these blessings we owe to Almighty
God, from whom we derive them,
and with profound reverence, our
most grateful and unceasing acknow-
Judgments.
In adverting TO our relations with
foreign powers, which are always an
object Ofimportance, l have to remark
that of the subjects which have been
brought into discussion with them du
ring the present administration some
have been satisfactorily terminated
Others have been suspended, to be re
sumed hereafter, under circumstances
more favorable to success, and others
are still in negotiation with the hope
that they may be djusted, with mutu
al accommodation TO the interests and
20 the satisfaction of retrospective par
ties. 1t has been the invariable object
of this government, to cherish the
most friendly relations with every
power, and on principles and condi
tions which might make them perma
nent A systematic effort has been
made to place our commerce with each
power, on footing of perfect reel
procity; to settle with each, in spirit
of candor and liberalty, all existing
differences, and to anticipate and re
move, SO far as might be practicable,
all causes of future variance.
1t having been stipulated by the Sc
venth article of the convention of navi
CATION aud commerce, which was con
Guided on the twenty fourth OF June
eighteen hundred and twenty two, be.
tween the United States aud Franc,
that The said convention should cont.
nue IN force tor two years, from the
Ar5t Oh OcIober, of that year, and for