Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-12-15
From the Washington Telegraph Of Tuesday,
December g., 1929
NJ E 8 s A G E.

This day. at 10 o'clock the President of the Unit
ed States communicated to both Houses Of Congress
the following
MESS AGE.
TELLow-CIrIzENs OF THE SENATE,
AND House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
1t affords me pleasure to tender my friend
1y greetings to you on this occasion of your
assembling at the Seat of Government, to
enter upon the important duties to which
you have been called by the voice of our
countrymen. The task devolves on me, I'M
der provision of the Constitution, to pre-
sent to you, as the Federal Legislature of
twenty -four sovereign States, and twelve
millions ofhappy people, a view of our affairs;
and to propose such measures as, in the dis
charge of my official functions, have sug-
gested themselves as necessary to promote
the objects of our Union.
In communicating with you for the first
time, it is, to me, source of unfeigned sat-
isfaction, calling for mutual graduation and
deyout thanks to benign Providence, that
we are at peace with all mankind, and that
our country exhibits the most cheering evil
dence of general welfare and progressive
Improvement. Turning our eyes to other
nations. our great desire is to see our breth-
rem ofthe human race secured in the bles-
sings enjoyed by ourselves, and advancing
in knowledge, in freedom, and in social hap
piness.
Onr foreign relations, although in their
general character pacific and friendly, pres
ent subjects of difference between US and
.other Powers, Of deep interest, as well to
the country at large as to many of our citi-
.zens. To effect an adjustment of these
shall continue to be the object of my earn
est endeavours and Notwithstanding the
difficulties of the task, do not allow myself
ito apprehend Hnfavourahle results. Bless
Led as our country is with every thing which
constitutes national strength, she is fully
adequate to the maintenance of all her in
terests. In discharging the responsible
trust confided to the Executive in this re-
spect, it is my settled purpose to ask moth
ing that is not clearly right, and to submit
to nothing that is wrong; and | fatter my
self, tn 1t, supported by the other branches
of the Government, and by the intelligence
and patriotism of the People. we shall be
able, under the protection of Providence,
to cause all our Just rights to be respected.
OF the unsettled matters between the u.
States and other Powers, the most promi-
nent are those which have, for years, been
the subject of negotiation with England,
France, and Spain. The late periods at
which our Ministers to those Governments
left the United States render it impossible,
at this early day, to inform you of what has
been done on the subjects with which they
have been respectively charged. Relying
upon the Justice of our views in relation to
the points committed to negotiation, and the
reciprocal good feeling which characterizes
our intercourse with those nations, we have
the best reason to hope for satisfactory ad-
justment of existing differences.
With Great Britain, alike distinguished in
peace and war, we may look forward to years
rof peaceful, honorable, and elevated COM
petition. Every thing in the condition and
history of the two nations is calculated to
inspire sentiments of mutual respect, and to
carry conviction to the minds of both that
it is their policy to preserve the most cordi-
al relations. Such are my own views ; and
it is not to be doubted that such are also the
prevailing sentiments of our constituents.
Although neither time nor opportunity has
been afforded for full deveiopement of the
policy which the present Cabinet Of Great
Britain designs to pursue towards this coun-
try, indulge the hope that it will be of a
just and paci6ck character; and if this an
ticipation be realized, we may look with con-
fidence to speedy & acceptable adjustment
of our affairs.
Under the Convention for regulating the
reference to arbitration of the disputed
points Of boundary under the fifth article of
the treaty of Client, the proceedings have
hitherto been conducted in that spirit Of
candor and liberality which ought ever to
characterize the acts of sovereign States,
seeking to adjust, by the most unexceptiona-
bic means, important and delicate subjects
of contention. The first statements of the
narfips have hoau ovebapoad and 4bo Ena1