Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-10
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Due place is accorded in the preceding columns
to the Message of the President of the United States
transmitted yesterday to both Houses of Congress
To large portion of readers its contents will
not be new, as copies of the entire document will
have been distributed in every direction before this
paper containing it can reach their hands Did we,
therefore, set no higher estimate upon the value of
this annual State paper than some of our contempt
raries in certain parts of the Union have heretofore
been known to do, we might think it unnecessary to
make our readers further acquainted with it. But,
always deeming much higher of the consequence
OF this State paper, annually emanating from the
Chief Magistrate of the Republic, in the discharge
of one of his first constitutional duties, we have
never failed to record it at large, as we do to-day,
upon the tablets of the National Intelligencer.
Without attempting at present any thing like a
review OF this important exposition of the state of
the Nation, and of the views entertained by the
President upon particular questions of national poll
cy, we may be allowed to say that, as whole, the
perusal Of it has afforded us qualification in many
| things-and even agreeable disappointmentin some
leaving us little to regret but its opinions, differing
from our own, on certain points upon which we had
no reason to expect them to agree.
BY far the most interesting, and, we sure, the
most acceptable to almost every class of readers
nearly the whole of that part of the Message which
treats of our relations with Foreign Powers Con-
trary to what we had been led to expect, from the
rumors confidently circulated in certain public jour
mails of the existence of serious misunderstanding
between this Government and more than one Fo-
reign Power, we learn from the Message that no
questions are depending between the United States
and any other Government but what there is good
reason to believe may be amicably adjusted. With
Great Britain friendly negotiations are depending
both in regard to the Fisheries and to the Central
American question, with prospect of favorable
result. With France our relations continue on the
most friendly footing, and commercial treaty is in
the of negotiation With regard to Spain, the
President announces, with undisguised satisfaction,
that since the last Congress no attempts have been
made by unauthorized expeditions within the United
States against either of her colonies and that all the
means at his command will be vigorously exerted
to repress any movement towards such unlawful
acts that shall hereafter be manifested within
our limits. Between the United States and Next
co there are, as it is well known, open ques-
tons, especially that concerning the true boun-
dairy line of our Territory Of New Mexico and the
Mexican State of Chihuahua; but ait is reason
able to expect, negotiations having been opened by
the two Governments on the subject, that an ar
rangement satisfactory to both countries may be
concluded and lasting friendship between them
confirmed and perpetuated." TT cannot escape the
attention Of reader that the phraseoogy Of this
latter sentence, literally quoted from the Message,
excludes the idea of any design, the part of the
present Administration, of countenancing further
acquisitions of Mexican territory Between THU
Government and the States of South Americ;
there exist amicable relations and friendly inter
course. With Austria there appears to have beer
no recent controversy except that relating to the
case of Koszta, from which the President does not
intimate any apprehension of further iwill between
the two countries. With regard to China and the
expedition to Japan, we learn that our Commits
sioners have commercial objects only in view.
We ARE THUS in the language of the President,
AT PEACE WITH ALL FOREIGN POWERS.