Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-25
From the Boston Daily advertiser.
FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Boston Daily advertiser.
FRENCH PAPERS.
The Presidents Message to Congress at the
opening of the session, is published entire in
the Journal des Debats. 1t NAV crafty some
Of our readers, to see some Of the reflections
upon it of NJ de Chateubriand. We extract
the following passages from long article:-
The annual Message of the President of the
United STATES, is a document important to be
studied by our politicians, our statesmen, our
representatives-we may even go farther-by
our princes. This study becomes agreeable,
when, instead of the military rudeness of COL
Monroe, the style of this document offers the
diplomatic. wisdom, the polished manner, and
the philosophical tone Of Mr.. J. Quincy Adams
This message exhibits first the foreign poll.
CIV. Ii is altogether pacific, but firm and no
bic. The principal object of the United States,
is to obtain universal freedom and reciprocity
of commerce; it is their interest as a very &C
those restrictions which are made necessary
for the interest Of manufacturers in European
States, il is probable that this principle will
gradually become predominant over all the
civilized world. We see with regret that the
commercial treaties between France and Anne
RIGA are only provisional. We see with plea
sure America declaring, that the pirates of the
Archipelago only abuse the Greek flag, with
out any fault on the part of the Government Of
the Peloponessus. This appears to us more
noble and more just than the severe measures
prescribed to the French and Austrian squad
rons. We are not astonished, but we are
grieved to see something feeble in the efforts
Of the American navy to repress the horrible
traffic in human blood, on the western coasts
of Africa; the existence Of slavery in some Of
the American States, explains the embarrass-
ment in which the central authority finds itself,
and the violent though powerless declarations
of the State Government of Georgia, justify
the circumspect language Of the President,
who appears to defer till an approaching oc-
casion, the discussion of such delicate sub.
ject.
The most important feature in the foreign po-
hey of the Anglo-Americans, is the sending an
Ambassador 10 the Congress of Panama, a reso-
luton, which, followed by a prudent choice of
the person to be sent, may consolidate the liber-
ty Of whole hemisphere! For we cannot con-
ceal, that the Spanish Americans have great
need of the counsels of a nation more expert
enced in the career of independence Descend
ed almost entirely from the ranks Of privileged
castles, or from the military class, the distin-
guished men in these new States have rather
patriotic and generous sentiments, than admi-
nis,rative and political ideas Let them study
the progress Of the United STATES, at the same
time wise and energetic: let them establish
promptly regular finances and respectable fleets,
organise their constitutions, SO that that may
skifully lead multitude, still Ignorant and in
doen,; introduce with prudence, liberty of wor-
ship, of opinions, and of industry: let them form
their CabiLdo upon the plan and in the spirit of
the Anglo-American municipalities and provin-
cial assemblies, (the only real and solid founda-
ton of free governments; awaken also reason,
which slumbers among people accustomed
to state of pupilage, and develope peaceably
the powerful germs Of activity, which certainly
are not wanting to the countrymen Of Nina and
ofthe Baron d 'Erolles, but which too often burst
out and are destroyed in the fire Of devouring
passions. Intimate communication with the
United States, especially with the states OF New
England, would be an excellent source OF in
struc,ion for the Spanish Americans-It is for
the eldest daughter of American liberty to be
the guide Of her younger sisters, and to gain
ONcT tHctH TIC iphiS Vi pei SuoStSu anu hieHe
ship; let her show herself frank, disinterested,
great and generous. The noble pos, Of being
at the head of new world, is certainly well
worth the sacrifice of a few dollars in duties,
and few bales Of cotton.
The proclamation Of the President of Mexi-
CO, on the occasion of the taking of the fort of
St. Juan d'Uloa, shews, in striking manner,
the difference between the moral situation of
the Anglo-Americans, and that of the people
newly separated from the Spanish monarchy.
There is in this proclamation something of the
boasting Of our revolutionists. This little ci-
tadel, to be sure, is taken, but there remains
in Mexico itself the love Of power, the vanity
Of titles, the pride of hereditary distinctions,
and almost absolute separation Of the enlght-
ened and governing class, from an immense
mass Of laborers, who are as much strangers
to every sentiment Of liberty, as to all political
knowledge. All these are Spanish citadels,
which still threaten the Mexican republic Its
independence is better secured than its liberty;
it is powerful, ma gni6cent state, but the ele'