The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-12-23

therefore felt IL my duty dlsuncliy 10 ue-
clare, in my annual message to Congress,
that no such concession could be 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 purposes wholly forbidden by
those laws, and obnoxious to the moral
censure of the world. Taking the mess
age as his letter of Instructions, our then
minister at Paris felt himself required to
assume the same ground in remon-
STRANGE which he felt it to be his duty to
present to NJ. Guitz, and through him to
the king of the French, against what has
been called the Quin,uple treaty. and his
conduct in this respect met with the ap-
proval Of this government. In close con-
lormity with these views the eighth article
of the treaty was framed which provides
that leach nation shall keep aAoat on the
| African seas force not less than eighty
guns, to act saperately and apart, under
instructions from their respective govern
ments, and for the enforcement of their
respective laws and obligations. From
this it will be seen that the ground ASST
med in the message has been fully main
tanned, at the same time that the stipula-
tons of the treaty of Client are to be car
ried out in good faith by the two coun-
tries, and that all prelcnce is removed for
interference with our commerce for any
purposes whatever by foreign govern
Imcnt. while therefore, the United States
have been standing up for the freedom of
the seas, they have not thought proper to
make that preteXt for avoiding a fulfil
mant Of their treaty stipulation, ora ground
for giving countenancc to trade repro
batod by our laws. A similar arrangement
by the other great powers could not fail to
sweep from the ocean the slave trade,
without the Interpolation Of any new
principle into the maritime code. We
may be permitted to hope thai the exam
pie thus set will be followed by some if
not all of them. We thereby also afford
suitable protection to the fair trader in
those seas, thus fulfilling at the same time
the dictates Of sound policy, and COM
plying with the claim of justice and hu-
} manity.
1t would have furnished additional
/ cause for congratulaton, if the treaty
could have embraced all subjects calcutta
: tee in future to lead to a misunderstanding
between the two governments. The ter
/ ritory of the United States commonly
called the Oregon territory lying on the
! Pacific ocean, north of the AID degree of
: latitude, to portion Of which Great
Britain lays clam, begins TO attract the
attention Of our felow-ci citizens, and the
, tide of population which has reclaimed
; what was SO lately an unbroken wider
= ness, in more contiguous regions. is pre-
, pairing TO flow over those vast districts
which stretch from the Rocky mountains
: TO the Pacific ocean. In advance Of the
requirement of individual rights to these
: lands, sound policy dictates that every
: effort should be resorted to by the two
governments, to settle their respective
+ claims. 1t became manifest at all early
J hour of the late negotiations, that any at
, tempt for the time being satisfactorily to
determine those rights, would lead to a
+ protracied discussion, which might en-
' brace in its failure other more pressing
= matters, and the executive did not regard
il as proper to waive all the advantages OF
: an honorable adjustment to other difficult
t ties of great magnitude and importance,
: because this, not so immediately pressing
, stood in the way. Although the difficult
5 ty referred to may not for several years to
. come involve the peace of the two coun
i tries, yet | shall not delay to urge OF
/ Great Britain the importance of its early
: settlement. Nor will Other matters o
commercial importance to the two coun
: tries be overlooked, and have good rea
# son TO believe that it will comport will
: the policy of England, as it does witt
h that of the United States, to seize upor
II this moment, when most Of the causes o
II irritation have passed away, to cement TIT
S peace and unity of the two countries b,
a wisely removing all grounds of probable
e future collision.
l. With the other powers of Europe gu
{, relations continue on the most amicablt
II footing. Treaties now existing with then
N should be rigidly observed, and every op
l. portunity compatible with the interests o
g the Uuited States, should be seized upol
II 0Ienlarge the basis of commercial inter
n burse. Peace with all the world is tn
s. true foundation of our policy, which Cal
il only he ranlnrnd nermanent hu the nrnc