Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-12-09

/ The President OF the United States trans
mitted, this day, 10 both Houses Of Con-
| gress, the following
MESSAGE.
FeUow- Citizens Oft Senate,
and Of the House Of Representatives.:
The view which have now TO pre-.
cent to you Of our affairs, Foreign and
Domestic, realizes the most sanguine
anticipations, which have been enter
tanned of the public prosperity. If we
look to the whole, our growth, as a pa
ton, continues to be rapid. beyond ex-
ample: if to the States which compose
it, the same gratifying spectacle is exc
hibited. Our expansion over tho vast
territory within our limits, has been
great, without indicating any decline IN
those sections from which the einigra-
tion has been most conspicuous. We
have daily gained strength BY a native
population in every quarter-a popula-
| ton devoted to our happy system OF go
vernment, and cherishiDg the bond OF
union with fraternaI affection. Expe
rience has already shown, that the diff
| ference OF climate, and ofiDdustry, pro-
ceediDg from that cause, inseperab!e
from such vast domains. and which, un.
(! der other systems might have rePul.
siye tendency, cannot fail to produce,
with US, under wise regulations, the OPP
posite effect. What one portion wants,
the other may supply, and this will be
most sensibly felt by the parts most
distant from eac h other, forming, there.
by, domestic market, and an active in
tercourse between the extremes, and
throughout every portion of our Union.
Thus, by happy distribution OF pow
er between the National and State Go
vernments, governments which rest ex-
clusively on the soyereignty of the PEG.
pie. and are fully adequate to the great
purposes for which they we're respec.
lively Instituted, causes which might o.
therwise lead to ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ope-
rate powerfully to draw US closer to-
gether. 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 ofa friendly charac-
ter, although certain interesting differ
euces remain unsettled with some. Cor
revenue under the mild system Of i'm
post and tonnage, continues to be ade-
quste to all the purposes of the Govern.
mept. Our agriculture, commerce.,
manufactures, and navigation, flourish.
Our Notifications are advancing in the
degree authorised by existing appropri-
atoms; to maturity; and doe progress is
made in the augmentation of the Navy,
to the limit prescribed for it by law
For these blessings we owe to 4 lmighty
God, from whom we derive them. and
with profound reverence, our most
grateful and unceasiDg acknowledges
ments.
In adverting to our relations with 70.
reign powers, which are always an OBJ
ject of the highest Importance, have
to remark. that of, the subjects which
have been brought into discussion with
them during the present Administra.
ton, some have been satisfactorily ter
minated: others have been suspended,
to be resumed hereafter, under circum
stances more favorable to success. and
others are still in negotiation, with the
hope that they may be adjusted, with
mutual accommodation TO the interests
and to the satisfaction of the respective
parties. 1t has been the invsrable OBJ
lect of this Government, to cherish the
most friendly relations with every pow
err, and OH principles and conditions
which might make them permanent
A systematic effort has been made to
place our commerce with each power,
on footing of perfect reciprocity; to
settle with each, in spirit of candor
and hberality, all existing differences,
and to anticipate and remove, SO far as
it might be practicable, all causes Of
future variance.
Ii having been stipulated by the Sc
venth Article of the Convention of Ma.
vigation and Commerce. which was con.
cluded on the tweDty-fourth June, eigh
teen hundred and twenty-five, between
the United States and France, that the
said Convention should coatinue in
force for two years, from the first of
| October, of that year, and for an iDdef.
mite term afterwards. unless one of the
parties should declare it's intention to
reDounce it, In which event, it should
cease to operate at the end of six months
from such declaration; and, no such in.
tention having been announced, the
Convention no vino heen found adva nta.