Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-12-14
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

Ifany people ever had cause to render UP thanks
to the Supreme Being for parental care and pro-
lection extended to them in all the trials and diff
culties to which they have been from time to time
exposed, we certainly are that People. From the
first settlement of forefathers on this continent
through the dangers attended upon the occupa-
ton of savage wilderness through period Of
Colonial dependence through the war of the Rev.
Olution-in the wisdom which led to the adoption
ofthe existing Republican form%of Government
In the hazard incident to war subsequently waged
with one Of the most powerful nations of the earth
lin the increaseof our population I'm the spread
of the arts and sciences, and in the strength and
durability conferred on political institutions emana
ting from the People & sustained by their Willthe
superintendent Of an overriding Providence has
been plainly visible As preparatory, therefore, to
entering once more upon the high dutiesof legis-
lation, it becomes us hunbly to acknowledge Our
dependence upon Him as our guide and protector,
e. to implore continuance of His parental watch
fulness over our beloved country. We havenew cause
for the expression Of our gratitude in the preserva
ton of the health Of our fellow citizens with some
partial and local exceptions, during the past sea-
son-for the abundance with which the earth has
welded up its fruits to the labors of the husband
man-for the renewed activity which has been inn
parted to commerce-for the revival Of trade in all
ia departments-for the increased rewards attend
AIT on the exercise of the mechanic arts-for the
eoainted growth of our population and the rapidly
reviyins prosperity Of the whole country. I shall
be permitted to exchange congratulations with you,
gentlemen of the two Houses of Congress, on these
suspicious circumstances, and to assure you, IN adj
vance, of my ready disposition to concur with you
in the adoption of all such measures as shall be-
calculated to increase the happiness of our constt
uents and to advance the glory of our common
country.
Since the last adjournment of Congress, the Ex-
ecutve has relaxed effort to render mdestru ct-
Bile the relations of amidity which 30 happily exists
between the United States and other countries
The treaty lately concluded with Great Britain has
tended greatly to increase the good understanding
which reciprocity of interest is calculated to en-
courage, and it is most ardently to be hoped that
nothing may transpireto interrupt the relations OF
amity which is so obviously the policy of both
tons to cultivate.
A question of much importance still remains to
be adjusted between them. The territorial limits
ofthe two countries in relation to what is COM
monty known the Oregon territory, still remains
in dispute. The United States would be at all
times indis2osed to aggfandiZe themselves at the
expense of any other nation but while they would
be restrained by principles of honor, which should
govern the conduct of nations well that OF lndl
Viduals, from setting up demand for territory
which does not belong to them, they would as un-,
willingly consent to surrender of their rights
After the most ri 81 ras Unbiased
examination of the subject the United States have
always contended that their rights appertan to the
entire region of country lying on the Pacific, and
embraced within the forty-second, and hfty-fourth
30 m degrees of north latitude. This claim balng
coaroverted by Great Britain, those who have pre-
ceded the present Executive, actuated, no doubt,
by an earnest desire to adjust the matter upon
terms mutually satisfactory to both countries have
caused to be submitted to the British Government,
propositions for settlement and final adjustment,
which, however, have not proved heretofore accep-
table it., Our Minister at London has, underin-
structons. again brought the subjectto the co1sid'
Grafton of that Government; and while nothing
will be done to com ororit the right honor of the
United states every proper expedient will be re-
sorted to in order to bring the negotiation now in
the progress of resumption, to speedy and happy
termination. In the meantime it is proper to re-
mark that many of our citizens either AREA iy
established in the territory, or are on their way
thither for the purpose of forming permanent set
Elements, while otherssare preparing to follow
and.in view of these facts Fmust repeatthe recon-
mendation contained in previous messages, for the
esta5lishm ,at of military posts, at such places, on
the line Of travel, will furnish security and pro-
lection to our hardy adventures against hostile
tribes of Indians inhabting those
Our laws ssouldsalso follow them, so modified as
the circumstances of the case my seem to re-
quire Under the influence of our free system OF
government new republics are destined to spring
up, at ne distant day, on the shores OF the Paclhc
similar policy and feeling to those existing on
this sids Of the Rocky Mountains, and give wi
der and more extensive spread to the principles OF
civil and religious liberty
l am happy to inform you that the cases which
have ariscrl from time to time, Of the detention of
American vessels by British cruises on the co1st
of Africa, under pretelceof being engaged IN the
slave trade, have been placedin fair tram OF ad-
justment. In the case Of the William s. Francis,
full satisfaction will be allowed In the case OF the IL
grisS Seamew, the British Government admits that
satisfaction il due In the case Of the Jones, the