The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-12-15
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
F.tfaW CITIZENS or the SEskTs
Axp Horsg Or ErPaEsssIa rtsEs:

grrss and the Iulilmcnt on that occasion 0
n the duty imposed upon new President, i
one of the best evidences Of their capacit
10 realize the hopes Of the founders of a po
/ litical system at once complex and systenat
4 ical While the different branches of tn
II government are. to certain extent, ndc
pendent of each other, the duties Of al
4 ul.ke. have direct reference 10 the success
n of the whole. Fortunately. under this sys
tenn no man is SO high and none 50 humbl,
in the scale of public station. as to escape
from the scrutiny or 10 be exempt from the
responsibility which all official functions i'm
ply. Upon the justice and intelligence o
the masses, in a government thus organi.
zed. is the sole reliance of the coniederacy
ard the only security for honest aud earnest
devotion 70 its interests against the usurpa-
ton and encroachmcnt- Of power, on the
one hand, or the assaults Of personal ambi-
tion On the other. The interest of which
have spoken is inseparabe from an inqui-
ring. selfgovernng community, but is stm-
ulated doubtless at the present time by the
unsettled condition of our relations with
foreign powers; by the new Obligations re-
sultng from sudden extension of the field
u enterprise; by the spirit with which that
crgy with viii its resJGrees for meeting
the demands Of humanity have been devel
oped.
Although disease assuming at one time
the characteristics of d wide spread deyasta-
ting pestience, has lett its sad trace upon
some portions of our country, we have still
the most abundant cause for feyereut thank
tulness 10 God for an accumulation ot sig
.t 81.
II i we'll that consciousness of rapid
advancement ard increasing strength oa
lah tuaitf associated with an abiding sense
ol dependence upon Him wh9 holds in His
hands the destiuics oi Heu and nations.
Recognizing the wisdom OF th@ hrotd
principles pf absolute religions liberation
proclaimed ia our tunlaacUfa iaw. and re-
l3ieius in th- benign influence which it has
exea;ed upon our social and political condi-
ton, should shrink from Il clear dn'y did
TAIL 10 express MY deepest conviction that
We can place no secure reliance upon any
apparent progress, il it be not sustained by
national integrity. resting upon the grcnt
truths affirmed and illustrated b. divine rev.
clatoa.
In the midst OF our sorrow for tie allict-
ID ana suffering. il has been c5as9liHg to see
ho9 promptly disaster mads true neighbo.s
ot districts uud cities separated widely from
rach ether. aud cheering TO watch the
strength ol that common bond OF brother
hood which untrs all hearts in all parts ol
this Union, when danger threatens from
abroad or cllauitcs inpcnd over us at
home.
Our diplomatic rel2i;oHs With foreign
powers have un Iergone y. essentia, change
since the adj mrnment of the last Congress
With some of them, questions ot disturb
ing character are still! pending, bat there are
.-gloA reasyi,s to, hslyss Thai these may be
1isscaHiv adjusted.
Foy some years pasi. Great Britain has SO
construed the lirat article Of the Convention
oG the goth Of April. 1878. in regard to the
fisheric Of the North Eas,ern coasts as to
rxciulc cur citizens from eme Of the fish
ing grounds to Which they freely resortad
Tor nearly quarter of century subsequent
to the date of that treaty. The United
States haze not acqlicsccd in that construc
ton, but always claimed for their fishermen
all the rights wliirh they had 50 long epj ~
ed without molcstaton.
Witt view to remove all difficulties on
tbs subject, and to extend the right of cur
fishermen beyond the limits fixed by the
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