The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-12-24
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
10 tie Senate and House Of
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In coming together, leliOW ciliLenS, W
enter again upon the discharge of the du
ties with which the people have charged
us severally, we find great occasion to re-
joice in the general prosperity of the coun-
try. We are in the EN- oyment of all the
blessings of civil and religious liberty,
with unexampled means of educaiion
knowledge, and improvement. Through
the year, which is now drawing to close,
peace has been in our borders, and plenty
in our habitations; and, although disease
has visited some few portions of our land
with distress and mortality, yet, in gene
raj, the health of the people has been pre-
served, and we are all called upon by the
highest obligations of duty, to renew our
thanks and our devotion to our Heavenly
Parent, who has continued to vouchsale
to us the eminent blessings which sur
round us, and who has so signally crown
ed the year with his goodness. If we
find ourselves increasing beyond example
in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in
knowledge, in every thing which promotes
human and social happiness, let us ever
remember our dependence, for all these,
on the protection and mcrcitul DISPENSE
tons of Divine Providence.
Since yourlast adjournment, Alexander
Mcleod, u British subject, who was in
dicted for the murder Of an American CT
tizen, and whose case has been the sub
ject Of correspondence heretofore COM
municatcd TO you, has been acquitted by
the verdict Of al impartial and intelligent
jury, and has, under the judgment Of the
court, been regularly discharged.
Great Britain having made known to
this government that the expedition fitted
out from Canada for the destruction Of
the steamboat Caroline, in the winter Of
1897, and which resulted in the destruc-
ton of said boat, and in the death Of IN
American citizen, was undertaken by or
dcrs cmanating from the authorities Of the
British government in Cannda, and de-
handing the discharge Of Mcleod upon
the ground that, if engaged III that cXpo-
dition, he did but fulfil the orders Of his
government, has thus been answered in
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Observation-Disclosures. ...,uo., prisoner iron,
c,sc,J,. without ., orJ.r 81 the nronar
tribunal directing his DISCHARGE. The pre.
cisa st,ooor tho 1roceedi,os ut which snrh
orJer nav No m,do ;s , mater or munici.
MI rornI9,;on ovcl,siyeI, ond MT n he
comnlaincJ Of NV anv other Government,
Tn cases If his kind govornmcn, be.
comes nol;,icaIJv responsible only when
;,s ,r,hnrals of last resor, are shawn to
have ronJorod uniust and in;urious iudo.
monts in matters not doubtful TO the
est,hl;sbmon, and elucida,ion Of this nrin-
c;n,I ~ na,;or b,s Iont is authority more
eG;c;on,lv ,h,r Great Rr;,o;n ilexan.
der Mcleod having his option either to
nrosecu,e wri, Of error from the decision
oftbe sunreme court of New York, which
b,d hoon tendered mon his annlica,ion
for DISCHARGE to the sunreme court of
the Tinted States or 70 submi, his case to
the decision If = ;urv nrcferred the latter,
deemipc il the rea]iest mode of obtaining
his liberation and the result has fullv sus.