The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1853-12-17
THE
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Washington, Dec. 6.
FsloU citizens Of the Senate
nnd Hnnss nf pea,rp ec,f,yf,,see

and House Of Representatives..
The interest with which the people Of
this republic anticipate the assembling Of
Congress, aud the fulfilhnent on that oc-
casion OF the duty imposed upon new
President, is one of the best evidences of
the capacity to realize the hopes of the
founders of political system at once
complex and systema,ical. While the
different branches OF the Government
are to certain extent independent Of
each other, the duties OF all alike have a
direct reference to the success of the
whole. Fortunately, under this system,
no man is so high and none SO humble in
the scale of public station as to escape
from the scrutiny, or be exempt from the
responsibility which all official functions
imply. Upon the justice and intelligence
OF the masses, In a government thus or
ganized, is the sole reliance Of the con-
iederacy, and the only security for honest
and earnest devotion to its interest, a.
gainst the usurpation and encroachments
of power on the one hand, or the assaults
Of personal ambition Oh the other.
The interests Of which have spoken
are inseperable from an inquiring, self
governing community, but stimulated,
doubtless, at the present time, by the un-
settled condition of our relation with sew
eral foreign powers, by the new obliga-
tons resulting from a sudden extension of
the field of enterprise, by the spirit with
which that field has been entered, and
the amazing energy with which its re-
sources for meeting the demands of hu-
manity have been developed. Although
disease at one time assuming the char
acteristics of widespread devastating
pes,ilence, has left its sad trace upon some
portions Of our country, we have still the
most abundant cause for reverent thank.
lulness to God for an accumulation of
signal mercies showered upon us as ma.
ton. 1t is we'll that consciousness OF rap
id ADVANCEMENT. and increasing strength,
be habitually associated with an abiding
sense of dependence upon Him who
holds in His hands the destinies Of men
and nations.
Recognizing the wisdom of the broad
principles Of absolute religious liberation,
proclaimed in our fundamental law, and
rejoicing in the benign Influence which II
has exegted upon cur social and political
condition, should shrink from a clear
duty, and did | fail to express my deepest
convictions that we can place no sure re-
lance upon any apparen, progress il 1t be
not sustained BY national integrity, rest
ing upon the grand truths affirmed and
illustrated by Divine Revelation. In the
midst of our sorrow for our afflicted and
suffering, ii has been consoiing to see
how promptly disaster made true neigh
bors Of districts, and cities widely separa-
ted from each other, and cheering 10
watch the strength OF that common bond
OF brotherhood, which smltes all hearts In
all parts Of the Union, when danger
threatens from abroad or calamities I'M
pend over us al home.
Our diplomatic relations with foreign
powers have undergone no essential
change since the adjournment of tie
las, Congress. With some of them,
questions of disturbing character are
stitl pending, but there are good reasons
TO believe that they may be amicably ad-
lusted. For some years past, Great Brit
ain has Sc construed the first article OF the
Convention Of the 2o,h OF April 1918,
il regard TO the fisheries Of the Northern
Coast, as to exclude our Citizens from
some Of the fisheries to which they freely
resorted for nearly century snhsequen,
to the date of that treaty. The I. s.
| have not acGulesced In the construction
but always claimed for their fishermen
all the rights which they had SO long en-.
loyed without molcstation. With view
to remove all difficulties on the sublcct
to extend the right Of our fishermen be.
yond the limits fixed by the Convention
OF ISIS, and to regulate trade between
the United States and the British NoIti
American provinces, negotiation ha:
been opened with lalr prospect OF ia
yofabie result. To protect our fisher
men in the enjoyment Oh their rights, am
4 To prevent collisions between them AM
British fishermen, deemed il expedicn
10 station a naval force in that quartz
I during tie fishing season.
i Embarrassing questions had also riser
between tie tSo governments IN regard t
Central America. Great Britain La.
proposed to settle these by an amicabl,
arrangement, and om minister IN Lon
don is instructed to enter into negotiation
Oh tlat subject. A commission Tor al
justing the claims OF cur citizens agains
Great Britain and those OF British sub
Ijects against the U. S., organized ,tnde
: the Conversion Of the Stu Of February ]
now sitting III London for the trausactio
of business.
!. 1t is in many respects d@irable that III
boundary lne between tue l.. >. and til
Brit sh Provinces in the northwest. a
drilaed IN the Convention ot Jan. II
l,i6, especially that par, which Spa rat,
tie territory ol NasbiD.rtCa rom tie 5l,,