The Arkansas advocate., 1834-12-26
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Fello,o Citizens of fthe Senate
 nnf House Of Representatives.

rous condition of our beloved country. Dl- vine Providence has favored us with gene raj health, with rich rewards 1T. the fields oi agriculture aiid ia every hr;ch. brra;ics. and with peace to cultivate and extend the various resources which employ the virtue and enterprise of our citizens. Letus trust that, in surveying a scene so fiatterlng to our free institutions, our joint deliberations to preserve them may be crowned with sue cess.
 Our Foreign Relations continue, with but few exceptions, to maintain the favorable aspect which they bore in my last annual message. and promise to extend those ad- pantages which the principles that regulate our intercourse with other nations are so we'll calculated to secure.
 The question of the Northeastern Bound ary is still pending with Great Britain, and the proposition made in accordance with the resolution of the Senate for the estab- lishment of a line according to the treaty of l7S3, has not been accepted by that gov ernment. Believing that every disposition is felt on both sides to adjust this perplex- ing question to the satisfaction of all the parties interested in it, the hope IS yet in- dulged that ii may be effected on the basis of that proposition.
 With the Governments of Austria, Rus sia, Prussia, Holland, Sweden, and Dem mark, the best understanding exists. Com merce, with all, is fostered and protected by reciprocal good will, under the sanction ofIiberal conventional or legal provisions.
 In the midst of her internal difficulties, the Queen of Spain has ratified the Conven- ton for the payment of the claims of our ci- tizens arising since 1919. 1t IS Tn the course of execution on her part, and copy of it is DOW laid before you for such legisla- ton as may be found necessary to enable those interested to derive the benefits of it.
 Yielding to the force of circumstances, and to the wise counsels of time and expe- rience, that power has finally resolved DO longer to occupy the unnatural position in which she stood to the new Governments established in this hemisphere. 1 have the great satisfaction of stating 10 you that in preparing the way for the restoration of har- mony between those who have sprung from the same ancestors, who are allied by con- mon interests, profess the same religion, speak the same language, the United States have been actively instrumental. Our ef. forts to effect this good work, will be perse- vered in while they are deemed useful to the parties. and our entire disinterestedness is felt and understood. The act of Con- gross to countervail the discriminating du- ties levied to the prejudice of our nayiga- ton, in Cuba and Porto Rico, has been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at Madrid, to be communicated 10 the Government ofthe Queen. No intel- Fgence of its receipt has yet reached the Department of State.
 If the present condition of the country permits the Government to make careful and enlarged examination of the true infer ests of these important portions of It's doal- nions, no doubt is entertained that their fl- 1 ture intercourse with the United States vii be placed upon more just and liberal ba. SIS.
 The Florida Archives have not yet beer 1 selected and delivered. Recent order have been sent to the agent of the United 1 States at Havanna, to return with all tha he can obtain, so that they may be II Washington before the session of the Su preme Court, to be used in the legal ques tions there pending, to which the Govern mant is :. r~sty
 Internal tranquillityis is happily restored te
 Portugal. The distracted state of the country rendered unavoidable the postpone. ment ot final payment of the just clam. of our citizens. Our diplomatic relation. will be soon resumed. and the long subslst ing friendship with That power affords the strongest guarantee that the balance duo will receive prompt attention.
 The first instalment due under the Con vention of Indemnity with the King of the Two Scilies, has been duly received, ane an offer has been made to extinguish the whole by prompt payment--an offerI die not consider myself authorized to accept as the lndemntication provided is the ex. elusive property of individual citizens ot the United States. The original adjust. lnent of our claims, and the anxiety display ed to fnl6l at once the stipulations made for tke payment of them, are highly honorable to the Government of the Two Sicilies. When 1t is recollected that they were the result of the injustice of an intrusive power temporarily dominant in their territory, re pugnance to acknowledge and to pay whicl would have been neither unnatural nor un expected, the circumstances cannot fail b exalt it's character for justice and good faih In the eyes ofall nations.
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