Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-12-10
To the Senate and House of
Representatires of the United States:

man has MS gardens hlIeo with abundance, nho
the Of life, not to speak OF lis luxuries,
abound in every dire ction. While in soma other
nations steady and industrious labor can hardly
find the means Of subsistence, the greatest evil
which we have 10 encounter, is surplus OF pro-
duction beyond the homo demand, which seeks,
and with difficulty finds, partial market IN other
regions. The health Of tho country, with partial
exceptions, has for the past year been we'll pro-
served and under their FREQ and wise institutions
tho United States are rapidly advancing towards
tho contamination Of the high destiny which an
overriding Providence seems TO have marked out
Cor them. Exempt from domestic convn!-ion,
and at peace with the world, ore left free to
consult to the best means Of securing and ad.
vancing the happiness Of The People. Such are
tho circumstances under which you now assem-
BILE in your respective chambers, and which shod
lead Us to unite in praise ond Thanksgiving to that
great Being who made US; and who preserves US
a nation.
! congratulate on, fellow citizens. on tho hap
ply change in the aspect Of our foreign affairs
since my last annual message. Causes of com
plant at that time existed between the y. States
and Great Britain. which, attended by irritating
circumstances. threatened most seriously the pub
lie peace. The difficulty of adjusting amicably
tho questions at issue between the two countries,
in no small degree augmented by the lapse
Of time since they had their origin. Tho opln>
ions entertained by the Execution on several Of
the leading topics in dispute, wero frankly set
forth in the Message at the opening OF your late
session. Tho appointment Of special minister
by Great Britain to the United States with power
10 negotiate upon most Of the points OF difference,
indicated desire on her part amicably to adjust
them, and that minister met by the Execu-
tive in the Same spirit which had dictated bis mis-
sion. The Treaty consequent thereon, having
been daily ratified by the two Governments, CO.
by, together with the correspondence winch &c
compane II, is, herewith, communicate. rust
that willis, you may see in it nothing objection
able il NAV be tho means Of preserving, for an in
definite period the umcable relations happily ex.
istng between the two Governments. The qnes-
ton Of peace md war between tho United States
and Great Britain, is a question of the deepest
interes, only to themselves, but TO the civil
lied world, since il is scarcely possible that war
could oxsi between them without endangering
the peace Of chris,endom. Tho immediate efec,
of the Treaty upon ourselves will be felt in tho
security afforded 10 mercantile enterprise, which,
longer 8pprehensIve OF interruption, adven-
lures its speculaiions in the most distant and
froigh,ed with tho diversified productions of eve.
ry land returns to bless own. There is moth
ing in the Treaty which, in tho slightest degree,
compromits the honor dignity Of either nation.
Next to the settlement of the boundary line,
which must always DO a matter of difficulty be-
tween States as between individuals the question
which seemed to threaten tho greatest enoar-
rassment, was that connected with the African
slave trade.
By tho 10Th article Of the Treaty Of Client, it
was expressly declared that "whereas the traffic
in slaves is irreconciable with the principles of
humanity and justice; and whereas both bis Ma
jss,y and the United States DESTROYS of con-
,nung their eff ,rts TO promote its entire abol-
ton, it is hereby agreed that both The contract
ing parties shall use their best endeavors to ac-
complish desirable object" Ia tho en-
forcoment Of the laws and Treaty s'ipula,ions OF
Great Britain, practice had threatened TO grow
up the part of its cruisers of suh]ectug to Wis
ita,ion ships sailing under the American Flag,
hich vhi oil cd iIrle
rights, would subject 10 vcxa.ion u branch OF our
trade which was daily increasing, and which re-
quired the fostering care of the Governmen'.-
And although Lord Aberdeen, IN his correspond
ence with the American ENJOYS at London, ex
pressly disclaimeG all right TO detan an AmerI-
can ship on the high seas, oven i: found with
cargo Of slaves on board, and restricted the Brit
ish pretension to mere claim 10 visit and en-
quire, yet il could not well be dIscerned by the
Executive Of tho United States how such visit
and enquiry could be made without detention on
the voyage, and consequent interruption of the
trade. |, was regarded as the right of search.
presented only in new FORM and expressed In
different words; and therefore felt il TO be my
duty distinctly to declare, in my annual message
to Congress, that no such concession could he
made, and that the United States had both the
will and the ability to enforce their own laws.
and TO protect their flag from being used for pur
poses wholly forbidden by these laws, aud obnox
ious to the moral censurs Of the world. Taking
the Message as his letter Of instructions, our then
minister at Paris felt himself required to assume
the same ground 10 a remonsuance which he felt
IL to be his duty TO present to NJ Guzo,, and
through him the King of the French, against
what has been called the q Iintup'e treaty; and
his conduct, this respect, met with the appro
val Of this Government. In close conformity with
these views. the eighth article of the Treaty was
framed. which provides that leach nation shall
keep afoat in the African force no, less
than eighty guns, to oct separately and apart,
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menis, and for the enforce of their respec-
tive laws and obligations
From this will be that ths ground assumed in the
Messas has been fully maintained, the that
the spuations OF the Treaty of Ghen be carried
in good ath by the countries and that all
sremoved for interference with for any put
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