Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-04-15

nc ioiioWinP message from the Fre-
sident o. the Unned States was yester-
day communicated to the House Of Rep
reseDtatlves: Nat. Jour. E1tra.
To he House Of Representatives.
ofMe United States.
WASHINGTON, 5th MARCH, 1926.
In compliance with resolution of the
House OF the 5th ult. requesting me TO
cause to be laid before The House so much
OF the correspondence between the Unit
ed States and the new States of America
or their Ministers, respecting the pro-
posed Congress, or meeting of diplomat
ic Agents a Panama, and such informa-
ton respecting the general character of
that expected Congress as may be in my
possession, and as may in my opinion
be communicated without prejudice to
the public interest; and also to inform
the House SO far as, in my opinion, the
public interest may allow, in regard to
what objects the Agents of the United
States are expected to take part in the
deliberations of that Congress. now
transmit to the House report from the
Secretary OF Slate, with the correspon-
dence and information requested by the
resolution.
With regard to the objects in which
the Agents Of the United States are cx-
pected to take part in the deliberations
OF that Congress, l deem it proper to
premise, that these objects did not form
the only, or even the principal motive
for my acceptance Of the invitation. My
First and greatest inducement was, to
meet in the spirit OF kindness, and friend
ship, an overture made in that spirit by
three sister Republics of this hemls-
phere.
The great revolution in human affairs
which has brought into existence nearly
at the same time eight sovereign and IN
dependent nations in our own quarter O!
the globe, has placed the United States
in situation not less novel. and scarce
ly less interesting, than that in which
they had found themselves by their own
transition from cluster of colonies to a
nation OF sovereign States. The deliver
ance of the Southern American Repub-
lies from the oppression under which
they had SO long been afflicted, was hail
ed with great unanimity by the people Of
this Union, as among the most anspi-
cious events OF the age. On the 4th OF
May, 1922, an act oil Congress made an
appropriation Of one hundred thousand
dollars for such missions to the indepen-
dent nations of the American continent,
as the President of the Uni,ed States
might deem proper.
In exercising the authority recognized
by this act, my predecessor, by and with
the advice and consent Of the Senate, ap-
pointed, successfully, Ministers Plenipo.
Tertiary to The Republics of Colombia
Buenos Ayres, Chill and Mexico. Un-
willing to raise among the fraternity OF
freedom questions OF precedency and ell
quette, which even the European mon
archs had Of late found ii necessary in a
great measure TO discard, he despatched
these Ministers to Colombia, Buenos
Ayres, and Chill, without exacting from
those Republics, as by the ancien, prIn.
ciples of political primogeniture be
might have done, that the compliment Of
a PIenipo,en,iary Mission should have
been paid first by them to the United
States.
The instructions prepared under his
direction 10 Mr.. Anderson, the first Of
our Ministers to the Southern continent,
contain a, much length the general prin-
ciples upon which he thought it desira-
BILE that our relations, political and COM
mercial, with these our new neighbors,
should be established for their benefit
and ours, and that Of the future ages Of
our posterity. A copy of so much Of
these instructions as relates to these &c.
neral subjects is among the papers now
transmitted to the House. Similar in.
struc,ions were furnished to the Minis
,ers appointed to Buenos Ayres, Chilli,
and Mexico; and the system Of social
intercourse which it was the purpose Of
those missions to establish, from the first
opening Of our diplomatic relations with
those rising nations, is the most effective
exposition Of the principles upon which
the Invitation TO the Congress Of Panama
has been accepted by me, as we'll as Of
the objects Of negotiation At that meet.