Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-12-11

and protection Of all which, and the continuance
Of the public advantages involved, it il impossible
for the Government OF the United States to be in.
different.
have deemed the danger of the recurrence OF
iawless violence in this quarter imminent to
make IT my duty 10 station q portion Of eur naval
force IN the harbors of Panama and Aspinwall, in
order to protect the persons and property Of the
United States in those ports, and to insure to them
safe passage across the Isthmus, and il would, in
my judgment, be unwise to withdraw the naval
force in those ports until by the spontaneous action
Of the Republic of New Grenada, otherwise,
some adequate arrangement should have been made
Tor the protection and security of line of inter
oceanic communication so important at this time,
not to the United States only, but all other mari
TINE states, both OF Europe and America. Mean
while negotiations have been instituted by means
oil special commissioner to obtain from New Gre
NADIA full Indemnity for injuries sustained by eur
citizens on the lshmus, and satisfactory security
for the general interests of the United States.
Addressing TO you my last Annual Message the
occasion seems to be an appropriate TO express
my congratulations In Wow Of the peace, greatness
aud prosperity which the United States now possess
and enjoy, to point you to the state of the varisus
| departments Of the Government, and Of all the
| great branches, OF the public service, civil and
military IN order TO speak OF the intelligence and
| integrity which peryadss the whole, would be to
indicate but mperfsotly the administrative condition
of the country and tie beneficial effects Of that on
the general welfare, nor would it suffice it to say
that the nation IL actually at peace at home and
that the canvass Of its mariners whiisn every sea-
| and the pillow of Its husbandman is marching stead
lily onward to the bloodess conquest OF the conti-
nent that cities and popuous States are springlng
up as II by enchantment from tie bosom of our own
Western wilds and that the courageous energy of
our people il making these United States the great
Republic Of the world These results have not been
attained without passing through trials and perils
by experience OF which, and thus only nations can
harden into manhood
| Our fersfathers were trained to the wisdom which
conceived, and the courage which achieved indie
| pendence, by the circumstances which surrounded
them, and they were thus made capable of the ere.
alton Of the Republic.
1t devolved on the next generation to 90 nsolats
the work of the Revolution, to deliver tho country
entirely from the conflicting trans atlantic PARTIAL
ties or antpathies which attached to our colonial
| and revolutionary history, and to organize the
practical operation of the constitutional legal nsti
tutions OF the Union. To US of this generation
romans the not less noble task of maintaining and
extending the power of the United States. Wehave
ut length reached that stage of tho national career
| IN which the dangers to be encountered, and the
sxsrtions to be made the inideents not of weak
| ness but OF strength.
In our foreign relations we have to sttempcr our
power TO the sss happy condition Of therRepublics
in America, and to place ourselves in the Guinness
and conscious dignity of right, by the side of the
greatest and weathiest empires of Europe. In our
domestic relations have 10 guard against the
shock of the dscentents the ambitions the interests
and the exuberant and therefore sometimes rrecu
impulses of opinion or Of action, which are the ma.
tural products of the present political alton the
sefreliance and the restless spirit of enterprise Of
the people of the United States.
shall prepare to surrender the Executive trust
TO my successor, and retire to private life with
sentiments OF profound gratitude to the good Prov
dience, which during tho period of my adlninistra
ton has ysuchsafsd to carry the country through
mary difficulties, domestic and foreign, and to
enable me to contemplate the spectacle of AMIGA ble
and respectful relations between ours and othor
governments, and the establishment of constitutional
order and tranquility throughout the Union
FRANKLIN PIERCE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 1856.