American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-12-10
M ES S E.
FellO7p-Chi-e,is Of The Senate,
and Of NE Iotse of Rebrsser,1,;,,es

our aHalrs, Foreign snd domestic, realizes the mos
sangune anticipatons which have been entertained
OF the public prosperity. II we look to the whole
our growth, as a nation, continues to be rapid, be
yond example; it to the States which compose it.
the same gratifying spectacle is exhibited. Our
expansion over the vast territory within limits
has been great, without indicating any decline in
those sections from which the emigration has been
most conspicuous. We have daily gained strength
by native population in every quarter-a popua.
ton devoted TO orr happy system OF Government,
and chetishing the bond of union with fralernal
affection. Experience has already shown, that the
difference OF climate, and Of industry, proceeding
from that cause, inseparable from such vast do
mains, and which. under other systems might have a
Iepulsve tendency, cannot fail TO produce, with US
under wise regulations, the opposite effect What
one portion wants, the other may supply and this
will be most senshly felt by the parts most distant
from each other forming thereby, a domestic mar
ke, and an active intercourse between the extremes
and throu bout every portion Of our Uuion. Thus,
by happy distribution Of power between the Ma
tlonal and State Governments, governments which
rest exclusively on The sovereignty Of the People
sad are fully adequate to the great. purposes for
which they were respectively instituted, causes
which might otherwise lead 10 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
operate powerfully to draw Us closer together In
every other Circumstance, a correct view Of the
actual stale oil our Union, mus, be equally CRAFTY
powers are OF friendly character although Ger.
tain interesting differences remain unsettled with
some Our revenue, under the mild system oil
lmpost and tonnage. continues 10 be adequate TO all
Inc purposes oil the Government. Our agriculture
commerce, manufactures, and navigation flourish
Our notifications are advancing in the degree an
thorzedh by existing appropriations, 10 maturity
ana que progress Is made in the augmentation oil
the Navy, to the limit prescribed for II hy law Fo
W In ,irht I'll
whom We derive them. and with profound reverence
our most grateful and unceasing acknowledgements
10 idVsrung 10 our relations with foreign powers
winch are always an object of the highest import
ance' | have TO remark, that Of the subjects which
have been brought into discussion with them du
ring he present Administration, some have bsenl
satisfactorily erminated others have been suspend
ed to be resumed hereafter under circumsia ices
more favorable 10 success and others are still in
negotiation, With the hope that they may be adjusted
with mutual accommodation to the interests and toI
the satisfaction OF the respective parties Ii has
been the nvarlable object of this Government. tol
Cherish the most friendly relations with every now |
err and on principles and conditions which might
make them permanent. A systematic effort basl
been made to place our commerce with each power
on footing Of perfect reciprocity to settle whI
each IN spirit OF candor and lberality all existing
differences, and to anticipate and remove. So far
as II might be practicable all causes OF future yari
ance. |
II having been stipulated by the Seventh Article
q the Convention of Navigation and Commerce !
which was concluded on the twenty.fourth Iune
eighteen hundred and twenty-five, between the
United States and France, that the said Convention
shou'u continue IN force Tor two years, from the
hrst OF October OF that year, and for an indefinite
term afterwards, unless of the parties should
declare lis intention TO renounce it, in which event
shouio cease TO opperae at the end OF six months
from such declaration ; and no such intention bav
ing been announced, the Convention having been
found advantageous to both parties il has since re-
manned, and still remains, in force AT the lime
"hen mat convention was concluded, many inter
e'ung subjects were lett unsettled, and particularly
our Claim to indemnity for spoliations which werr
committed on our commerce in the late wars. For
Hese interests and claims, It was in the contempa.
tion OF these parties, to make provision at subse
quent day, by more comprehensive and de6ni.
i've treaty. The object has been duly attended to
since oy the Executive, but, as yet, il has not been
accomplished. II is hoped that iavot able oDDor.
tuniiy will present itself, for opening a peeotia
ton. which may embrace and arrange all existinc
differences and every other concern in which thew
nave common interest, upon the accession of the
present King OF France, an event which has occur
cd since the close of the last Session of Con-
gress.
With Great Britain our commercial intercourse
rests on the same ooIing that it did az The last SEES
SION. BY the convention of one thousand eipht
hundred and Fifteen the commerce between the
Onited States and the British duminions in Europe
and the East Indies, arranged on principle of
reciprocity. That convention was confirmed and
continued N iorce, with slight exceptions, by a
subsequent Treaty, for the term OF ten years. from
me twentieth October, one Thousand eight hundred
and eighteen, the dale oil the latter The trade