The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-12-12

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| the act of 1924.
During the last session of Congress, trea-
ties of amity, navigation, and commerce,
were negotiated and signed at this place
| with the government of Denmark, IN Eu-
rome. and with the Federation OF Central
America in this hemisphere. These trea-
t;es then received the constitutional sane
ton of the senate, by the advice and con-
sent to their ratification. They were accor-
dinghy ratified on the part of the U. States,
and. during the recess of Congress-, have
been also ratified by the other respective
contracting parties. The ratiflcations have
been exchanged, and they have been pubs
liShed by Proclamation, copies OF which
are herewith communicated to Congress.
These Treaties have established between
the contracting parties the principles OFF,
quality and reciprocity, i'll their broadcast
md most liberal extent Each party admit
| ting the vessels of the other into its ports,
laden with cargocs the produce or t1anufac-
lures of any quarter of the globe, upon the
payment of the same duties of tonnage and
! impost that are charged upon their own.-
The have further stipulated that the parties
| shall hereafter grant no favor of navigation
or commerce to any other nation, which
shall not, upon the same terms, be granted
to each her; and that neither party will
impose, upon articles of merchandise, the
produce or manufacture of the other, anv
other or higher duties than upon the like
articles, being the produce or manufacture
of any other country. To these princi-
Piles there is, in the Convention with Dem
mark, an exception, with regard to the
Colonies of that kingdom il. the Arctic
Seas, but none with regard to her Colo
MES in the West Indies.
In the course of the last summer, the term
to which our last treaty with Sweden was lin
tied, has expired. A continuation of it is in
! the contemplation of the Swedish government
| and is believed to be desirable ON the part of
I the United States. 1t has been proposed by
the king Of Sweden that pending the negocia-
| ton of renewal, the expired treaty should be
mutually considered as still in force; a meas
ure which will require the sanction of Congress
to be carried into effect on our part, g. which
| | therefore recommend to your consideration
I With Prussia, Spain, Portugal, and in gem
eral all the European Powers, between whom
and the United States relations offriendly in
tercourse have existed, their condition have
not materially varied since the last session of
Congress-, Iregret not to be able to say the
| same of Our commercial intercourse with the
Colonial Possessions Of Great Britain. in A.
meriea. negotiations of the highest impor-
lance to our common interests have been for
several years in discussion between the two
governments and on-the part of the u. s.
have been invariably pursued in the spirit Of
candOr and Cancellation. Interests of great
magnitude and delcacy havc been adjusted
by the conventions Of 1915 and 1873 while
that of 1922. mediated by the late emperor
Alexander had promised satisfactory com
promise Of claims which the government of
the y. s. Injustice to the rights of a numerous
class of their citizens was bound to sustain
But with regard to the commercial intercourse
between the u. S. aud the British Colonies in
1 America, it has been hitherto found imprac-
ticabie to bring the parties to an understand
| ing satisfactory to both. The relative geo.
| graphical position, and the respective pro-
pucts ofnature cultivated by human Industry,
! haQ constituted the elements of commercial
intercourse between the United States and
| British America, insl,lar and continental. i'm
portant to the inhabitants of both countries.
But it had been interdicted by Great Britain,
upon principal heretofore practised upon by
the colonizing nations of Europe, of holding
the trade of their colonies, each in exclusive
monopoly TO nerseH. After the termination of
tbs late war.this Introduction had been revived.
and the British Government declined Including
this portion of our intercourse with her pos
sessions in the negotiation of the Convention
of 1915. The trade was then carried on ex-
clusively in British vessels till the act of Con-
gress concerning navigation, of 1918, and the
supplemental act of 1890, met the interdict by
a corresponding measure on the part of the
| United States. These measures, not of retail
iation, but Of necessary self defence, were soon
succeeded by an kct of Parliament, opening
| certain colonial ports to the vessels of the u
nited States, coming directly from them, and
to the importation from them of certain arti-
cles of our produce, burdened with heavy du-
| ties, and excluding some of the most valuable
articles of our exports. The United States O.
pened their ports to British vessels from the
.Colonies,upon termsas exactly corresponding
with those of the Act of Parliament. as. in the
relative position of the parties, could be made.
And negotiationwas commenced by mutual
consent, with the hope, on our part, that a
reciprocal spirit of accommodation and COM
mon sentiment of the Importance of the trade
to the Inhabitants of the two countries, be-
tween whom it must be carried on, would ul-
ltlmntely bring the parties to compromise,
with which both might he satisfied. With this
view, the Government of the United States
had determined to sacrifice something of that