Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-12-16
course has been uninteruptedly maintai-

ned.
With the Government of the Ottoman
Porte and its dependencies on the coast
IF the Mediterranean, peace and good
will will be carefully cultivated, and have
oeen fostered with such good offices as
he relative distance and the condition
Of those countries would permit.
Our commerce with Greece is carri-
ed Oh under the laws of the two Govern.
ments, rec,procally beneficial TO the
interests of both; and have
reason to look forward to the adoption
of other measures which will be more ex
tensively and permanently advantage
Gus.
Copies of the treaties concluded with
the the governments of Siam and Mus
cat are transmitted for the information
of Congress, the ratifications having. been
received, and the treaties made public,
since the close Of the last annual session.
Already have we reason TO congratulate
ourselves on the prospect Of considerable
commercial benefit; and we have, be-
sides, received from the Sultan of Mus
cat prompt evidence Of his desire to cul-
tivate the most friendly feelings, by lib
eral acts toward one of our vessels, be-
slowed in a manner so striking as to re.
quire on our part grateful acknow-
Judgement.
Our commerce with the Islands Of Cuba
and Porto Rico still labors under heavy
restrictions, the continuance of which is
a subject of fregret. The only effect Of
an adherence to them will be to benefit
the navigation of other countries, at the
expenses both of the United States and
Spain.
The independent nations of this conti-
nent have, ever since they emerged from
the colonial state, experienced severe tri-
ais in their progress to the permanent
establishment of liberal political institu-
tions. Their unsettled condition not on
Iy interrupts their own advances to pro-
sperty, but has often seriously injured
the other powers Of the world. The
claims Of our citizens upon Peru, Chill,
Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Gov
ernments formed out of the Republics of
Colombia and Mexico, are still bending,
although many ofthem have been presen-
ted for examination more than twenty
years. New Grenada, Venezuela, and
Ecuador, have recently formed a con-
vention for the purpose of ascertaining
and adjusting claims upon the Republic
of Colombia, from which it is earnestly
hoped our citizens will, ere long, receive
full compensation for the injuries origi-
nally inflicted upon them, and for the de-
lay in affording it.
An advantageous treaty of commerce
has been concluded by the United States
with the Peru.Bolivian Confederation,
which wants only the ratification Of that
Government. The progress of a subse-
quent negotiation for the settlement of
claims upon Peru, has been unfavorably
affected by the war between that Power
and Chill, and the Argentine Republic ;
and the same event is also likely to pro-
duce delays in the settlement of our de-
mands on those powers.
The aggravating circumstances con-
nected with our claims upon Mexico, and
a variety of events touching the honor
and integrity of our Government, led my
predecessor to make, at the second ses-
sion of the last Congress, special re-
commentator of the course to be pur-
sued to obtain speedy and final salts
faction oflhe injuries complained of by
this Government and by our citizens.
He recommended final demand of re-
dress. with contingent authority to the
Executive to make reprsals, if that de-
mand should be made in vain. From
the proceedings in Congress on that re-
commentator, it appeared, that the
opinion of both branches Of the Legisla-
ture coincided with that of the Execu-
tive, that any mode Of redress known
to the law Of nations might juslifiably be
used. 1t was obvious, too, that Con-
gress believed, with the President, that
another demand should be made, in or
der to give undeniabe and satisfactory
proof of our desire to avoid extremities
with a neighboring power; but that
there was an indisposilion to vest dis
cretionary authority in the Executive
to take redress, should unfortunately be
either denied or unreascnably delayed
by the Mexican Government. So soon
as the necessary documents prepared,
after entering upon the duties of my Of
fee, a special messenger was sent to
Mexico, to make final demand Of re-
dress, with the documents required by
the provisions of cur treaty.. The de-