The Arkansas advocate., 1832-01-11

thefn. crowds the vilaryes of our cities with vessels, and covers thesmost distant seas with onr canvass.
 Let us be grateful for these blessings to. the beneiicent Being who has confer red them, and who suffers Us to indulge q .Fesssoiaah hl e nope of ileir continuance and extension, while we neglect not tire means by which they sasy sa;s5y, be fpiresers- ed. If we may dare to judge. of His future designsby the manner ia which his past favors have been bestowed, lie has made our national prosperity to de pend on the preservation of osx liber- ties--our national force on our federal ulion-and our individual happiness on the maintenance of our State rights and wise institutions. If We are pros porous al home, and respected abroad, itlis because we are free, united. indus trious and obeaient to the laws. While we continue so, we shall, by the bless ihgof Heaven, go on in. the happy ca reor VIC have begun, and which has brought us, in the sl4oft period of our political existence, ifoma population of three to thirteen millions-lfona thir- teen separate Colonies to twenty-fonr United states=-froms weakness 10 stfength--irom a rank scarcely marked in the scale of the Nations to . high place in theif respect.
 This l,sf advantage is one that has resulted, in q great degree, from the principles witch have guided our inter- course with foreign Powers, since We nave assumed ID equal station among them; and hence, the annual account which the E1eeutiVerendersto thecoun- try Of the manner in whiclthat branch. oi iiiis Siat,es ii:.s beer fulfilled, proves instructive nd salutary.
 He pacific asd wise policy Of our Goyeracsalst kept Us in a stale ol neu- traiity during the ears that have, at dit- ferent periods since or t;s.lisitalexis- tence, been carried or D. other pes' 'eFs;; but this policy while it gave f'fstis'itt and extent to our commerce, exposed #it in inc same proportion to injuries from the bcligcreat nations. Hence. have arisen claims of indemnity for ti4cse injuries. England, Trance, Spain, Holland, Swe- den, DeaaaF!!ss, Naples, and lately Por-1 fugal, had all in q greater or Iess degree iafringea our neutral rights. Demands for reparation were made upon aiy. = They have had in all, and continue to have in some cases, a leading influence On the nature of GUT reiations with the powers on whom ihcY were made.
 Of the claims upon England t Is ua- to speak, further t!ian ie say, that t}e state ot things to which their prosecution and denial gave rise has been succeeded by arrangements, pro- ductiYc of mutual good feelings and am icable relations between the two cosn- tries, which 1t is hoped will oot he in- terrupted. One of these arrangements ia that relating 10 the colonial trade, which was communicated to Congress at the last session;and although the short period during which 1t has been inforce will not enable nc to form an accurate judgment of it's operation. there is eve ry reason to believe that if will prove highly beneficial. The trade thereby authorized has employed, 10 the 39hl September last, upwards of g, 900 tons of American, and l5,0e0 tons of for eiga shipping in the outward voyages; ]; and, in the inward, nearly all equal a mountof American, and 20,000 only of foreign tonnage. Advantages, teo, have resulted te our agricultural interests from the state oi the traiie between Canada and our Territories and States bordering on the St. Lawreacc aad ihe Lakes, which may prove more than equivalent to the loss sustained ny the discrimination made 10 favor the trade of the Northern colonies with the West Indies.
 After our transition from the state of colonies to that of an independent na- ton, many points were found necessa- y to be settled between us and Great Britain. Among them was the demar- cation of boundaries, not described with sufficient precision in the Treaty of Peace. Some of tlse lines that divide the Statc and Territories of the Unit cd States from the British Provinces, have been dchnltively fixed. That, however, which separates us from the Province Of Canada and New Bruns- wick ta the North and the East, was stiff in dispute when came isste office.
 But found arrangements made for its settlement. over which l had no control.