Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-01-11
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Fello,0- CHizens Of the Senate
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wages OF lire ana disease nave painfully a
flictedlotherwlse hourishing portions ofol
country; and serious embarrassments yt
derange the trade of many of our cite.
But, notwithstanding these adverse circun
stances, that general prosperity which ha
been heretofore SO bountifully bestowe
upon US by the Author ofall good, still con
tlnues to call for our warmest gratitude
Especially have we reason to rejoice in til
eXuberant harvest which have lavishly re
compensed well directed industry, and gi
ven to it THAT sure reward which is vainl
sought in visionary speculations. Icanno
indeed view without peculiar satisfaction
the evidences afforded by the past seaso
of the benefits that spring from the stead
devotion Of the husbandman to his honora
ble pursuit. No means of individual com
tort is more certain, and no source of ma
tional prosperity is SO sure. Nothing cal
compensate people for dependence up
on others for the bread they eat; and tha
cheerful abundance on which the happines
of every one so much depends, Is to b,
looked for nowhere with such sure rellanc,
as in the industry Of the agricuturalist.
and the bountics of the earth;
With foreign countries, our relations ex
hibit the same favorable aspect which was
presented in my last annual message, and
afford continued proof of the wisdom of the
pacific, just, add forbearing policy adopted
by the first Administration of the Fedora
Government, and pursued by its successors
'Nha extraordinary nnwar yoctad in M, a.,
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 means to meet 1t,
have not been exerted. They have, there.
fore, been attended with no other result
than to increase, by the confidence thus re-
posed in me, my obligations to maintain,
with religious eXactness, the cardinal prin-
cirles that govern our intercourse with 9th
er nations. Haprily, in our pending ques-
tions with Great Britain. out of which this
unusual grant Of authority arose, nothing
has occurred to require its GXertions; and
as it is about to return to the Legislature,
trnst that no future necessity may call for
its exercise by them, or its delegation to
another department Of the Government.
For the settlement of our Northeastern
boundary, the propositions promised by
Great Britain for commission of cxpiora-
ration ind survey, has been received, and
counter project, including also provision
for the cerlain and final adjustment of the
limits in dispute, is now before the British
Government for its consideration. A lust
regard to the delicate state of this question
and proper respect for the natural impa-
tience OF the State of Maine, not less than
a conviction that the negotiation has been
already protracted longer than Is prudent
on the part of either Government, have led
me to believe that the present favorable
should on no account be suffered
to pass without putting the question foiev-
er at rest. feel confident that the Co
gernment of her Britanic Majesty will take
he same view of the subject, as | am per-
suaded it is governed by desires equally
strong and sincere for the amicabc tcrmi-
nation of the controversy.
To the intrinsic difficulties of questions
of boundary lines, especially those desert
bed in regions unoccupied, and but partial
y known, is to be added in our country the
,mbarrassmcnts necessarily arising out of
our Constitution, by which the General
Government is made the organ Of negotia-
ing, and deciding upon the particular in
.erests of the states on whose frontiers
.hese lines are to be traced. To avoid
mother controversy in which a state Co.
'ernment might rghttuly claim to have
ler wishes consulted, previously to the
conclusion Of conventional arrangements
her rights of jurisdiction or ter
ritory. have thought it Necessary to call
he attention of the Government of Great
Britain to another portion of our contermI-
nous dominion, Of which the division still
remains to be adjusted. refer to the line
from the entrance OF Lake Superior to the
most northwestern point Of the Lake of the
w oods, stipulations for the settlement of
which are 20 be found in the seventh article
IF the treaty of Ghent. The commission
,rs appointed under that article b. the two
Governments having differed in their opin-
ons, made separate reports, according to
is slipuiahons, upon the points of disagree
nent, and these differences are to be sub
ntted to the arbitration of some friendly
sovereign or State. The disputed points
should be settled, and the line designated,
before the Territorial Government, of
which it is one of the boundaries, takes its
place in the Union as q State; and | rely
lpon the cordial cooperation of the British
Government to effect the object.
There is every reason to believe that dis
.urbances like those which lately agitated
he neighboring British Provinces will not
lgain prove the sources of border conten-
ions, or interpose obstacles TO the contln-
lance of that good understanding which it
S the mutual interest of Great Britain aud
he United States to preserve and mann
ain.
Within the Provinces themselves trans
utility is restored, and on our frontier that
Misguided sympathy in favor of what was
Presumed to be a general effort in behalf OF
popular rights, and which in some instances
nisled few of our more inexperienced ci-
izens, has subsidized INTO rational convlc-
ion strongly opposed to all intermeddling
With the internal affairs of our neighbors.
The people of the United States feel. as it
S hoped they always will, a warm soictude
or the success of all who are sincerely en-
leavoring to improve the political condition
If mankind. This generous feeling they che
ish towards the most distant nations; and
t was natural, therefore, that it should be
weakened with more than common warmth
nbehalf of their immediate neighbors. But 1t
loes not belong to their character, as COM
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