Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-03-21

w AsHlNGToN, March 1G.
! The following Message yesterday transmitted by
the President OF the United States to Congress:
To Tue HoUsE REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE UNITED
STATES.
WdShington, March IS 1926
In compliance with the resolution the House of the
9TH ultimo, requesting be laid before the
House, much of the correspondence between the
Government of the United States, and the new States of
America or their Ministers, respecting the proposed
Congress, or meeting of Diplomatic Agent at Panama
and such information respecting the Qcne al
OF that expected Congress, may be my possession
and as may, III my opinion, be communicated without
prejudice TO the public interest; and also, inform the
House SO far as IN my opinion the public interest NAV
allow IN regard to what bects the Agents the Uni
ted States expected TO take part the deliberations
oil that Congress: now transmit TO the House. a report
frcn the Secretary OF State, with the correspondence
and Information requested by the resolution.
With regard TO the objects which the AGENTS Of the
C'ed Slaes are expected TO take part in the debe-
rations OF that Congress- deem ii propcr TO premise
that these objects did not form the ONLY nor even the
principal motive for my acceptance of the invitation
MY hrs ana greatest lnduccmeut to meet il. the
spirit OF kindness and friendship, overture made in
that spirit by three sisters Republics of this
The great revolution IN human affairs mich has brouo
INTO existence, nearly at the time eight SOVEREIGN
and independent nations quarter the rIobe
has placed the United States a situation not less mo-
vel, and scarcely less interesting, than that in which
they had found themselves, by their own transition from
cluster OF colonies TO nation of sovereign States
ihe deliverance of the Southern American Reppbj;cs
from the opprossion under which they had been so onr
afflicted, hauled with great unannity bv tho POI
pie OF tins Union, as among the suspicious events
81 the age On the 4th of May, 1922 an act of Con
fes made an appropriation OF hundred thousond
dollars for such missions to the Independent Nations
on the American continent, tie PrcsiIen, Of tho
United States might deem propcr.n
IL exercising the authority recognized BY fiji. art M,
predecessor by and with the advice and consent of he
Senate appointed, successfully Ministers Pepiooton
tlary to the Republics Of Colombia Bucnos Avres t.b
II, and Mexico Unwilling to raise among the frater-
NIFTY OF freedom, questions of presidency and etiouete
which even the European Aonarchs had of late found
II necessary IN great discard he dcsuatch
ed these Ministers TO Colombia, Buenos Ayres and
CHiil' Wiou XaCng from those EcpubIics as by the
ancient principles OF political priDogeniture he nirI
have done, that the compliment OF a PcniDotcnt;orr
mission, should have been paid first BY them 10 the Uni
tea States he instructions prepared under his d,rec
lion 10 MI Anderson, the first of our Ministers to tho
Southern continent, contain. at much length the rene
raj principles, upon which he thought il desii able that
our reatohs political and commercial, with these orr
new ne'ghoors, should be established for their bene CT
ana ours, and that of the future ages OF our posteri,v
copy OF so much of these Instructions as relates ia
thcse general subjects, among the papers now trans
fnted TO tie House Similar Instructions were firm
fS'icd 10 The Ministers appointed Bucnos Ayrcs CHI
H. and Mexico; and the system of social intercourse
winch IT was the purpose of those missions to establish
from The hrSt opening of our diplomatic relations with
hose rising nations IS the most effective exposition Of
the principles upon which the invitation 10 the Conoroec
at Panama, has been accepted by me- rs W ell ne of tho,
objects OF negotiation at that meeting in which If was
expected that our Plenpoentiarcs should take mart
The House will perceive that, even at the date of
these Instructions the first treaties between some of the
southern Republcs had been concluded bv which o,
hau stipulated among themselves this Diplomatic as
seho'y al fanama And it will be seen with what can
tou so aT as II might concern the policy of the limited
states, and at the time with " hat franl,oss .,J
good VIII towards those nations he gave councnance
10 'heir uesgn OF inviting the United States TO This rh
assembly for consultation upon american interests I,
was not considered conclusive reason for DECLINING
this Invaten that the proposal for assembling such .
congress had not first been made by ourselves Ii had
sprung from tie urgent, Immediate, and momentous
common lnefes Of the great communities strunooo
for independence, and, it were ouclxenino ;nf Ifs
rom mem tie proposition TO appeared IespectfnI
ana iflehoy; from US tc them, it could scarceIv have
been made, without exposing ourselves To suspici, IS
purposes OF anoitIOn IT not OF dOninaon more suted
10 rouse resistance and excite dstrust than 10 conciI;
ate favor ard friendship. The first and par,r,o,, 1870;
cPie upon which 1T was deemed wise and lust To- Law
the corner stone OF all future relations ,y I'M tbor
was dfSinterestcdness; the next was cordial od
10 heH the tinrd was clam of fair and canal roc;
procly Under these Impressions when the nvitat,o,
was ,orT'aIy and earnestly given lad it even been
uououul, whether any of the objects proposcd for
consideration and discussion at the Conmraee yoro
sech as that immediate and important interests
OF TIC Unhed States would be affected bv fLo is
sue should nevertheless have determined, an far
as IL depended upon INC, TO have accepted the invita-
uoh' ana 10 have appointed ministers TO attend t,e
,neetihg' Tue proposal itself implied that the Rcpub
nca ny whom II was made, bttcycd tlat important in
there desirable They had nyen lis noiico H., - =,
novelty OF her situation, and in the spirit of dcfeIenr
10 our experience, they would be pleased TO Iave tie
OeneHt OF our friendly counsel. To meet the to,nner
with which this proposal was made with a cold rcnniso
was not thought congenal 70 tfat warm Interest IN
iner weIiae with which the People and Government
81 the mon bad hitherto gone hand in hand frourh
,,'e "no'c progress of their Revolution. To insult
lhcn oy refusal of their overture and then invite
'hcn 10 similar assembly to be called bv ourselves
was an cXpedicn which never presented itself TO the
imnn. would lave sent ministers TO The rncefinr
ia" It 9een merely to give thcin such advice as they
might have desired, even with reference TO N,;. oc
"",'tS'$' not involving ours. would have sent Them
Ia u "eeh merely 10 explain and set forth - them
o reasons Tor aecIa'ag any proposal Of specific inca
which we might deem incompatible win our interests
" '"' P"''cs. In TIC intercourse between nations
,e"per IS missionary, perhaps more powerful than
, T..t N0'mng VS. ever lost by kind treatment
""'s can be gained by sullen rcpulscs and aspiring