Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-12-12

he government and citizens of the United !
States have an hahitual intercourse. Al
he date of my last annual message, Mexl-
% was the only nation which could not be
included in so gratifying reference to our
foreign relations.
/ ann happy TO be now able TO inform you
that advance has been made towards the
adjustment of our difficulties with that |
republic and the restoration of the customa- !
nv good feeling which the two governments,
which when ratified, will refer to arbitra |
ment of friendly power all the subjects
between US growing out Of injuries to indi-
viduals. There is at present also reason to
believe than an equitable settlement Of all
dispuied noints will be attained without
farther difficulty or unnecessary delay, and
thss authorize the free resumption Of d.
rlomatic intercourse with our sister repub-
lic..
With respect to the northeastern bounda-
nv of the United States, no official cores
poadence between this government and that
OF Great Britain has passed since that
communicated TO Congress towards the
cio-e of their last session. The offer TO
negotiate convention for the appointment
Of joint commission of survey and explor-
alton, am, however, assured will be met
by her Majesty's government in a conciIia-
tory and friendly spirit, and instructions to
enable the British Minister here to conclude
such an arrangement will be transmitted 10
him without needless delay. 1t is hoped
and expected that these instructions will be
of a liberal character, and that this negoci-
alton, II successful, will prove to be an
important step towards the satisfactory and
final adjustment OF the controversy.
| hoped that the respect for the laws and
regard for the peace and honor Of their own
country which has ever characterized the
citizens OF the United States, would have
prevented any portion of them from using
any means to promote instruction in the
territory of power with which we are at
peace, and with which the U. S. are desir-
Gus OF maintaining the most friendly rea-
tons. regret deeply however, to be obliged
to inform you that this has not been the
case. Information has been given 10 me,
derived from official and other sources, that
many citizens of the United States have
associated together to make hostile incur
slons from our territory into Canada, and to
aid and abet Instruction there IN violation
OF the obligations and laws of the Unite
States, and in open disregard of their own
duties as citizens. This information has
been in part confirmed, BY hostile invasion
actually made by citizens of the U. States,
in conjunction with Canadians and others,
and accompanied by forcible seizure cl
| the property of our citizens, and an applica-
tlon thereof to the prosecution of military
operations against the authorities and peo-
pie Of Canada.
The results of these criminal assaults
upon the peace and order of a neighboring
country have been, as was to be expected
fully destructive to the misguided or deluded
| persons engaged in them, and highly iniu-
! rlous 10 those in whose behalf they are
pEofessed to have been undertaken. This
authorities in Canada, from intelligence
received OF such intended movement among
our citizens, have felt themselves Obliged
them; have actually embodied the militia
and assumed an attitude to repel the inva-
sion to which they believed the Colonie.
were exposed from the United States. A
state of feeling on both sides of the frontie
has thus been produced, which called TO
! prompt and vigorous interference If al
BILE dispositions of the United States tow
ards Great Britain, as we'll as their dut,
themselves, would lead them to maintain
strict neutrality, and to restrain their citi
Zens from all violations of the laws which
have been passed for its enforcement.
But this government recognizes still
higher obligation to repress all attempts OF
the part OF its citizens to disturb the peace
OF country where order prevails, or ha,
been re-established. Depredations by GU
cltlzens on a country at peace with tht
united States, or combination for commit
ting them, have at all times been regarded
Dy the American government and people
with the greatest adherence. Military in
curslons by our citizens into countries 81
situated, and the commission Of acts O
violence on the members thereof il
order to effect change in its government
or under any pre:ext whatever have. from
the commencement Of our government. beel
equally criminal on the part of those en-
gagged in them, and as much deserving G
punishment as would be the disturbance O
the public peace by the Preparation O
similar acts within our own territory.
BY no country or persons have thes
Invaluable principles Of international law
principles, the strict observance of whic
Is so indispensable to the preservation G
social order in the world--beep more cal
nestly cherished or sacredly respected tina
oy those great and good men who first de
clared, and finally established, the independ
ence of our country. They promulgate
and maintained them at an early and cri,
lcal period in our history; they were sub
s;antially embodied in legislative enac,
ments of highly penal character, the faith
, ful enforcement Of which has hitherto been
and will, trust, always continue to b.
regarded as a duty insepara5ly associate
!, with the maintenance Of our national homo
That the people of the United States shout
ieel an interest in the spread of politics
institutions as free as they regard their ow
) 70 De, is natural, nor can sincere solicitud
lot the success Of those VINO are, at an
tlme, IN good faith struggling for their al
QUESTION, be imputed to our citizens as
crime With the entire freedom of opinion