Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-12-20
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
70 t4s Senate tara House Of

10 the Dendle anu House 0t
RePreseaiG'iUes ofhe Unacd Stdte1:
We have continued reason to- express
ourIprOfouns gratitude 10 tho great Gre
ator Of all things for numberless benefits
conferred upon US as a People. Blessed
with genial seasons, the husbandman has
his garneTs filed with abundance, and
the necessaries Of life, not to speak Of
its Injuries, abound in every direction.-
While in some other nations, steady and
Industrious labor can hardly find the
means Of subsistence, the greatest eVi
which we have 10 encounter, is a surplus
Of production beyond the home demand,
which seeks, and with difficulty finds. a
partial market In other regions. The
health, of the country, with partial excep-
tionS, has for the present year be en- well
preserved ;and under their free and wise
institutions, the United Stetes are rapid.
ly advancing towards the consummation
ofthe high destiny which an overruling
Providence seems to have marked out
FOr them. Exempt from domestic con.
vqlsiOn. aud at peace With the world. we
are left free 10 consult as to the best
means Of securing and advancing the
happiness Of the People. Such are the
circumstances under which you now as
Semble in your respective chambers, and
which should ead,us TO unite in praise
and Thanksgiving 10 the Great Being who
made us, and who preserves as na.
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! congratulate you, fellow citizens, on
the happy change in the aspect Of our
Eore;gn affairs since my last annual mess
ace Causes Of complaint at that time
existed between the United States and
Great Britain, which, attended by irita-
ting circumstances, threatened most Sc
riously the public peace. The Difficult.
" Of adjusting amicabIy the questions
al issne between the two countries, was
in no smaA degree augmented,,sby the
IaDse of time since they hal their orr
pin The opinions entertained by the
Executive on several of the leading top
,cs in dispute, we're frankly set forth in
the Massage at the opening of your late
session. The appointment ofa special
minister by Great Britain tOihe United
States with power 10 negotiate upon
most of the points Of difference. indica.
ted desire on her part amicAbly to ad-
lust them, and that minister was met nv
tho executive in the same spirit which
had dictated his mission. The Treaty
consequent thereon, havingbeen dolly ra.
tifed by the two Governments, a copy,
tooether with the correspondence which
accompanied il, is, herewith, c0nmu"ls
Gated, 1 trust that whilst you may see
mi, nothing objectionable, it may be he
means Of preserving. for an indefinite
Deriod. the amicable relations happily
existing between the two Governments.
The question of peace Orwar between
tho Uuited States and Great Britain, 10
a question Of the deepest interest, moi
only to themselves, but to the civilized
world, since it is scarcely possible that
war could exist between them without
endangeting the peace of Christendom'
The immediate 9 effects Of the Treaty up
on ourselves will be felti the security
afforded 10 mercantile enterprise, which
no longer apprehensive Of interruption
adventures It's speculations in the most
distant sea and, freighted with the diver
sifed productions Of every land, return:
IN bless our own. There is nothing.ir
the treaty which, in the slightest degree
conpromits the honor or dignity Of ei
ther nation. Next 10 the settlement o
the boundary line, which must always b'
a matter Of difficulty between States a
between indi yiduals, the question whicl
seemed to threaten the greatest emhar
rassr,ent, was that connected with th'
African slave trade.
By the 10th article Of the Treaty o
Client it was expressly declared, tha
"whereas tho traffic IN slaves is irrecon
cilabIe with the principles Of hHmshit
and Justice; and whereas both His Ma
ie,ty and the United States are desirou
Of continuing their efforts to promote IL
en,ite abolition, it is hereby agreed tha
both The contracting parties shall US
their best endeavors 10 accomplish 8
desirable an object" In the enforce
ment Of the laws and treaty stipulation
Of Great Britain, practice hac threaten
ed to grow UP on the part OF it's cruiser
efsubjecting to visitation ships sailIn
under the American flag, which, while
seriously involved our maratime rights
would subject to vsxaiioh branch
our trade which was daily increaslng,aN
which required The fostering care OF tn
Government. And although LordAbe
deem, ia his correspondence with Il
American Envoys at London, express
dIsclaimed all right 10 detain an Anne
can ship on the higRlseas, even If fouI
with cargo Of slaves on board, and /
stticted the British ptetensiou to a me
CLAIM. 10 visit and enquire, yet it cou
not we'll be disCerned blythe Exeeuti
Ufahs United States how such visit q