Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-08

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Esuov Citizens of the Senate, !
and House of Representatives.: :
regret that cannot, on this occasion +
congratulate you that the past year has :
bee1 one of unalloyed prosperity. The /;
r,vaCes of fire and disease have painfully :
,flicted otherwise fourishing portions of :
our country, and serious embarfassments
-, derange the trade of many of our cit
Z Bot Notwithstanding these adverse
circumstances, that general prosperity
rhich has been heretofore so bountifulv
bestowed upon US by the Author of all
,ood. still continues to call for our warm
81 gratitude Especially have we reason
"a rejoice in the exuberant harvests which
have lavishly recompensed well directed
industry and given to it that sure reward !
which is vainly sought in visionary spec
ulations. | can not indeed view without |
pecuIiar satisfaction the evidences afforded |
by the past season of the benefits that
spring from the steady devotion of the
husbandman to his honorable pursuit. No
means Of individual comfort is more GER
ian. and no source of national prosperity
Is so sure. Nothing can compensate a
people for dependence upon others for
he bread they eat; and that cheerful
abundance on which the happiness of eve
" one so much depends, is to be looked
for nowhere with such sure reliance as in
The industry of the agricnlturist and the
bounties of the earth
With foreign countries our relations ex-
hiba The same favorable aspect which was
presented in nv last annual message, and
afford continued proof of the wisdom and
Of the pacific, Just and forbearing policy
adopted by the first Administration Of the
Federal Government. and pursued by It's
successors. The extraordinary powers
! vested in me by an act Of Congress, for the
defence Of the country in an emergency,
) considered so far probable as to require
. that the Executive should possess ample
n means TO meet it, have not been eXerted
" They have, therefore, been attended witt
!. No olher result than TO increase, by tht
ad conf lence thus reposed in me, my obliga
= lions to maintain, with religious exactness
80 the cardinal principles that govern our in
n. tereOurse with other nations. Happily
so in our vending questions with Great Brit
ry aln. ont of which this unusual grant O
81. authority arose, nothing has occurred t.
require its exertion; and as 1t is about
otprn to the Legislature, trust that n
Dos, future necessity may call for Its exercis
. by them or its delegation TO another de
: anment of the government
s Forthe settlement OF our Northeaster
r1,c he
. Great Brtlin for commission ot e
pIoralion and survey, has been receive
eud count.r project, including also
provision for certain and final adju
Aent of the limits in dispute, is now
fore the British Government for its co
s'e' sderation. A Just regard to the deIics
,uie of this question and a proper resp'
or the natural importance OF the State
N line. not less than conviction that
rgotialion has been already protrac'
mger than is prudent on the pat
ether government, have led me to belle
WY that the present favorable moment sho'
on no account be suffered to pass with
putting the question forever at rest.
confident that the government OF
Brannic Majesty will take the sa
view Of this subject, as | am persuade
is governed by desires equally strong
sincere, for the amicabe termination
he controversy.
rolhe intrinsic difficulties of question
boundary lines, especially those descrl
regions unoccupied and but paru
inown, is to be added in our country
Embarrassment necessarily arising OF
our Constitution by which the Gen
government is made the organ of nego
og and deciding upon the particular II
v Sso Of the States OH whose frontiers
i inca are to be traced. To avoid ano
controversy in which State Govern
- might nghfully claim to have her WI
TOsuitsd, previously 10 the conclusic
III conventional arrangements concer
"'e' u right or jurisdiction Of territor
@Vetho't it necessary to call the atleI
a'he government of Great Britain Z
i ne' portion Of our conterminous do
nday " w. Of which The division still renal
adjusted refer to the line from
$5@ge SVanee Of Lake Superior 10 the
- 400 SwSno Western point Of the Lake o
u viii p "OOds stipulations for the settleme
/ and r'' Och are to be found in the 7lh arti
...soeipak treaty Of Client. The commissi
Tponted under that article by The
= so'etnments, having differed in
Oh. p!OlOus, made separate reports, acco
sOmmOp'' @alpulations, upon the points oil
.,oai. Veemenl, and these differences ar
@ submitted to the arbitration Of
.endly sovereign or state. The {
points should be settled and Il
gnated before the Territorial @
the S'Or Of which it is one of the b
On - ~ ~ takes its place 10 the nnio
NC; and rely upon the cord