The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-12-15
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The President Of the United States,
s1Eir.y-svsrd Consrs, s~end Ssssien.
Ftllsr aifisens ffls Ssnefe. md
effhe House n Rspresniuf;ress
TnE briel space which has elapsed
since the clnse Of your last sessi,n has
been marked bv no extraordinary poll
tieal event The quadrennial election
Of t'hief Magistrate has passed of with
lleSs than the usual excitement. How
ever individuals and parties may have
been disappointed d in the result, it is
nevertheless subject Of national con-
graduation that the choice has been
effected BY the independent sufsiages
Of free people. undisturbed by those
influences which in other countries
have too often affected the purity Of
popular elections.
Our grateful thanks are due to an
All-merciful Providence. not only for
staying the pestiIence which IN different
forms has drsolafed some of our cities.
but for crowning the labors Of the hus-
bandman with an abundant harvest,
aud the nation generally with the bles-
sings of peace and prosperity.
Within few weeks the public mind
has been deeply affected by the Of death
of Daniel Webster, filling at his decease
the office of Secretary Of State. His
associates in the Executive government
have sincerely sympathized with his
family and the public generally on this
mournlul occasion. His Commanding
talents, his great political and profess
sional emirfence. his weIl-tried patriot
ism, and his long and faithful services,
in the most important public trusts,
have caused hls death to be lamented
throughout the country. and have earn
ed for him lasting place in our his
! tory.
In the course Of the last summer con.
siderable anxiety was caused for shorl
time by an official intimation from the
government of Great Britain that order.
had been given for&the protection of tn,
fisheries upon the coasts Of the British
provinces in North America agains
the alleged encroachments Of the 6shin;
vessels ofthe United States and France
The shortness Of this notice and the sea
son Of the year seemed to make it |
matter Of urgent Importance. II wa'
at first apprehentled that an increased
naval force had been ordered to th,
fishing grounds to carry into effect th'
British Interpretation Of those proyi
sions in the convention of 1918, in re-
ference to the true intent of which The
two governments differ. 1t was sool
discovered that such was not the desigl
Of Great Britain, and satisfactory ex
plantations of the real objects of thu
measure have been given both here ans
in London.
The unadjusted difference, however
between the two governments as to thu
Interpretation Of the first article Of til,
convention of 1918 is still matter 0
importance. American fishing vessel
within nine or,ten years have been ex
, cluded. from waters to which they hat
free access for twenty, years after tn
negotiation of the treaty In l84J
, this exclusion was relaxed so far a
concerns the Bay of Fundy, but tn
just and liberal intention of the HON
government, in compliance with wha
we think the true construction of th
con, ention, to open all the other cute
bavs to our fishermen, was abandoned
/ in consequence Of the opposition Of tn
colonies. Notwithstanding this, the Tn
ted States have, since the Bay of Fur
DIV was re-opened TO our fishermen
lS45, pursued the most liberal cours
toward the colonial fishing interest
By the revenue law of 1916, the duti,
II on colonial fish entering our ports wei
Or very greatly reduced. and by the war;
housing act it is allowed to be entere
or in bond without payment of duty.
st this way colonial fish has acquired Il
monopoly Of the export trade in o'
!, market, and is entering to some extel
into the home consumption. The
facts were among those which increase
i. the sensibility Of our fishing interest
- = at the movement in question.
. These circumstances and the inc
dents above alluded to have led me
!, think the moment favorable for r
consideration Of the entire subject
the fisheries on the coasts of the Britt
provinces, with a view to place the
upon more liberal footing Of reclpr
cal privilege. A willingness to me
US in some arrangement of this kind
understood to exist, on the part Gre
Britain, with desire on her part
es, include in one comprehensive sett
o'- ment, as well this subject as the co
merciaI intercourse between the U
ted States and the British proyinc
| have thought that whatever arran'
ments NAV be made on these two ST
= jects. it is expediept that. they shot