Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-12-09
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
FELLOW citizens Of the Senate
and of the House of Represeaatr

and of the House Of Representatives.
Tie blief space which has elapsed
since the close of your last session has
been marked by no extraordinary politi>
OIL event. The quadrenial election of
Chief Magistrate has passed Of with less
than the usual excitement. However
individuals and parties may have been
disappointed in the result, it is neverthe-
less subject Of national congratulation
that the choice has been effected by the
independent suffrages 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 stay
ing the pestilence which in different
forms has desolated some of our cities.
but for browning the abors of the has
6andman with an abundant harvest. and
the nation generallyiwith the blessings Of
peace and prosperity. IL
Within few weeks tlse pubic mind
has been affected by the death 81 Daniel
Webster. filling at his deceasestheloffic
of Secretary of State. His Sssgtjates
in the Executive government if.jve sin,
cerely sympathized with bis fatAily and
the public generally on this mournfuI
occasion. His commanding talents, his
great political and professional eminefise
his we'll tried patriotism, ard his lone
and faithful services. in the most impor.
tant public trusts. have caused Ills death
to be lamented throughout the country
and have earned for him lasting place
in our history.
In the course of the last summer con
siderable anxiety was caused for a shor
time by an official intima!ion from The
government OF Great Britain that order.
had been given for the protection of The
fisheries upon the coasts of the British
provinces in North America against th,
alleded encroachnents Of the fsbine
vessels of the United States and France
The shoFtness of this notice and the sea,
son OF the year seemed 10 make it a mat,
ter OF urgent importance. It was a,
first apprehended that an INCREASED ma
val force had been ordered to the fishino
grounds to carry into effect the BRITISH
Interpretation OF those provisions in The
convention OF 1918. in reference to the
true intent of which tho two govern.
ments differ. 1t was soon discovered
that such was not the design Of G,ea
Britain, and satisfactory explanations o
the real objects CT the measure hav,
been given both here and in London.
The unadjusted difference, however,
between the two Governments as to the in
depreciation of the first article of the Con
vent'on OF ISIS Is siIla matter of impor
lance. American fishing vessels With,
nine or ten years have been excluded from
winters to which they had free access fo
twenty-five years after the negotiation o
the Ircaty. 10 1645, this exclusion wa
{reiaxed so tar as concerns the Bay of Fua
| dy, but the just aad liberal intention of III
Home Government. in compliance viii
what we think the true construction of IN,
Convention, 10 open all the outer bavs d
our fishermen. was abandoned, in cSnse
quence Of the opposition of the colonies.-
notwithstanding this. the United State
have, since the Bay of Fundy was reonen
ed to our fishermen in ls45, pursne,
the most liberal course toward the coIoni
al fishing interests. By the revenue Law
OF lS46. the duties on colonial fish enter
ing our ports were very greatly reduced
and by the warehousiag act it is allowed 4
be entered in bond without payment of dn
~. 10 this way colonial fish has ACQUIRE,
the monopoly of the export trade in on
market, and is entering to some exten
INTO The hone consumption. These fact
were among those which increased tn
sens'bil'ty OF our fishing interest, at tn,
movement in question,
These circumstances and the incident
above alluded To have led me to think m,
moment favorable for a Reconsideration n
the entire subject of the fisheries o.