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distant seas with our Canvass.
Let US be grateful for these BLESSING,
10 the benehccnt Being who has con.
'errea them, and who suffers us TO in
uu'se reasonable hope Of their con.
''hoance and extension, while we ne.
g're' not the means bv which they
may De preserved. If we NAV d,re
to Judge OF His future designs bv IN.
manner in which his pas, favor. have
oeen bestowed, he has made our ma.
uonai prosperity 10 depend on the pre.
servation of our liberiies-our na,,o,
al force on our federal union-and our
individual happiness on the maintcp .
ance OF our State rights anil wise ins;i-
tutions. IL weare prosperous AZ home.
anu respec ted abroad, n i. because ~ =.
are tree. united. industrious, and ODE.
utent to the laws. While we cuntinu..
So, We shall, by the blessing of Heaven.
60 on IN the happy career We have be
suo' and which has brought US, in the
short period Of our political existence.
from population Of three to thirteen
m,ilions-irom thirteen separate Co.
lonies To twenty-four United States
from weakness to strength-from a
rank scarcely marked in the scale of
Nations to high place in their res
poet.
This last advantage il one that ba.
resulted, IN great degree. f.om the
principles (which have guided our IN
tercourse with foreign Powers. since
we have assumed an equal station a
mong them: and hcnce. the annual ac.
count which the Executive render, 10
the country. of the manner IN which
that branch OF his duties has been full
hiied, proves instructive and salutary.
The pacific and wise policy Of our
Government kept Us IN a state of ncu-
'rality during the wars that have. \,
different periods since our political
existence. been carried on by other
Powers: but this policy. while il rave
activity and extent To our commerce.
exposed II IN the same proportion To
injuries from the bcl'iserent nations.
Hence have arisen CLAIMS of indemni
tv Tor those injuries. England, France.
Spain. Holland, Sweden, Denmark.
Naples. and lately Portugal. had all.
IN greater or less degree. infrinccd
our neutral rights. Demand, for re
paratlon were made upon all. They
have had in all. and continue To have
IN some cases, leading influence on
the nature OF our relations with the
Powers on whom they were made.
Vi the claims upon England il is
unnecessary to speak. further than to
say, that the state cf things To which
their prosecution and denial gave rise
has been succeeded by arrangements,
productive of mutual good feeling and
amicablc relations between the two
countries, which it lshoped will not DC
interrupted. One of these arrangements
II that relating To the colouiai trade,
which was communicated IL Con
gress ct the last session and although
the short period during which II has
been in free will not enable IRE te
form an accurate Judgment Of lis
! operations there Is every reason TO be.
ilevc that IT will prove highly bcnefi
cial. The trade thereby authorized
has employed, 10 the 5Oth Septembe;
last, upwards of 3o,CC0 tons OF Amer
can, and 5000 tons oil foreign ship
ping in the outward voyages and. IN
the inward, ne,rly a. equal amour,
OF American. and 20.O0O only Of 70
reign tonnage. Advantages, too, hav,
resulted 10 our agricultural interest.
from the state ~ the trade bctwecn
Canada and our Territories and State
bordering on the ~. Lawrence and
the Lakes. which may prove more than
equivalent to the lass sustained bv tnC
discrimination mad, TO favor the trade
Of tie Northern colonies with The " s'
Indies.
After ocr transition from the state
Of colonies TO that of an independent
nation, many points were found neces
sary TO be settled between Us ant
Great Britain. Among them was 'h'
demarcaiion Of boundaries. not dc
scribed with sufficient precision in ih,
Treaty Of Peace. Some ct the lines
that divide the States and Territorici
of the United States from the BRITISH
Provinces, have been definitely fixed
That. however, which separates "a
from the PfOsins cs oG { anada and New
DtoHsNtNh W the sNotih anu tbt Fsde'
was still N dispute when ! came int
Office. But found arrangements mad,
Tor its settlement. over which had n,
control. The Commissioners who la,
been appointed under the provisions
of the Treaty of Client. having Lcci
enable TO agree. n convention va
made with Great Britain by my immc
drstc predecessor IN ufire. With th,
advice aud consent o. the Senate. b.
~hicb " was agreed that The point
ct difference which have ARISEN - Oh,
settlement Of tie bn1udafr lme BE-