The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-12-13

good understanding between the parties would
be- beneficial to the interests Of both. The
origin of the political relations betwixt the
U. States and France, is cOeval with the first
years of our Independence. The memory of
ii is interviewer with that of our arduous
struggle for national existence. Weakened as
it has been since that time, it can by us never
he forgotten: and we should hail with exult
alton the moment which should indicate
recollection, equally friendly in spirit, on the
part of France. A fresh effort has recently
been made, by the United States residing at
Paris, to obtain a consideration of the Just
claims Of the citizens of the Uuited States, to
the PREPARATION of wrongs long since commit
ted, many of them frankly acknowledged, &
all Of them entitled upon every principle of
Justice, to a candid examination. The prOp0-
sal last made to the French Government has
been TO refer the sub jeCt, which has formed
an obstacle to this consideration, to the deter
mination of a Sovereign, the common friend
of both. To this offer no defDiiye answer
has yet been given but the honorable spirit
which has at all times been the pride
and glory of France, will not ultimately per-
NIT the demands Of Innocent sufferers to be
extinguished in the mere consciousness of the
power to reject them.
A new Treaty Of Amity, Navigation, Com
nerce, has been concluded with Sweden,
which will be submitted to the Senate for
their advice with regard to its ratification. At
more recent date, Minister Plenipotentia-
ry from the Hanseac Republics of Hamburg,
Lubbock, and Bremen, has been received,
charged with special mission for the nego-
citation OF Treaty of Amity and Commerce
between that ancient and renowned League
and the United States This negotiation has
accordingly been commenced, and is now in
progress, the result of which will, if success
full, be also submitted to the Senate for their
consideration.
Is Since the accession of the Emperor Nicho-
las to the Imperial throne of the Russias, the
friendly disposition towards the United States
SO constantly manifested by his predecessor,
have continued unabated, and have been re-
Gently testified by the appointment of Min
ister PIcnopotentiary to reside at this place.
From the interest taken by this Sovereign in
behalf of the suffering Greeks, and from the
spirit with which others Of the great Europe
an Powers are CO operating with him, the
friends of freedom may indulge the hope,
that they may obtain relief from that most
unequal of conflicts. which they have so long
and SO gallantly sustained: that their indie
pendcnce will be secured by those liberal
institutions, Of which their country furnish
ed the earliest examples in the history of
mankind, and which have consecrated to
immortal remembrance the very soil for
which they are now again profusply pour
ing forth their blood. The syrpathies which
the people and Government of the United
States have so warmly INDUCED with their
cause, have been acknowledged by their gov
eminent, in letter of thanks, which | have
received from their lllustrious President, a
translation of which is now communicated to
Congress. the Representatives of that nation
to whom this tribute of gratitude was intend
ed TO be paid, and to whom it was Justly due.
In the American hemisphere, the cause of
freedom and independence has continued to
prevail: and if signazed by none of those
splendid triumphs which had crowned with
glory some of the proceeding years, it has on
ly been superseded by the expulsion of the
enemy over whom it could have been achev-
ed. Our friendly wishes and cordial good will
which have constantly followed the southern
nations of America IN all the vicissitudes of
their war of independence, are succeeded by
a solicitude, equally ardent and cordial, that,
by the wisdom and purity of their institutions
they may secure to themselves the choicest
blessings of social order, and the best rewards
of yirtuous liberty. Disclaiming alike all right
and all intention of interfering in those con-
Germs which it is the prerogatve of their in
dependence to regulate as to them shall seem
fit. we hail with joy every indication of
their prosperity, of their harmony, of their
persevering and infexlble homage to those
principles of freedom and of equal rights,
which are alone suited to the genius8and tenn
per Of American nations. 1t has been there
fore with some concern that we have Obser-
we'd indications of intestine divisions in some
! of the republics of the South, and appear
ances of less union with one another, than
| we believe to be the interest of all. Among
| the results of this state of things has been
that the Treaties concluded at Panama do
not appear to have been ratified by the con-
! tracing parties, and that the meeting of the
| Congress at Tacubaya had been postponed.
J In accepting the invitations to be represented
at this Congress, while a manifestation was
intended on the part of the United States, of
the most friendly disposition towards the
Southern Republics by whom it had been
proposed, it would furnish an opportunity for
bringing all the nations of this hemisphere to
the common acknowledgement and adoption
of the principles, in the regulation of their in
ternational relations, which would have secu-
red a lasting peace and harmony between
them,a have promoted the cause of mutu-
al benevolence throughout the globe. But as
obstacles appear to have arisen to the re- as
sembling of Congress one of the two Minis