The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1856-01-19
Mssssgs.---synopsis.
WAsnIxGToN CrrY, Dee. 81.

The Presidents Message was read
to-day, in the Senate. He states that h
has delayed until this time his annua
communication to the two Houses il
consequences of the non-organization 0
the House, hut his convictions of duty
will not permit him to delay it any long
er going to Congress, for information O
the state of the Union and for recon.
mending such measures as he Judges ne.
cessary or expedient.
He commences by going into the his
tory of Central American affairs, in par.
ticular. The President refers to the re.
cent troubles in Kansas. and says thai
her people must be protected in the ex,
ercise of their rights without interior.
ence on the part of the people of any 9TH
Ter State, commencing the subject to The
early attention of Congress. He euIo-
gises the popular sovereignty and gives
q history of the formation of the Union,
expatiating on State rights with particu.
lar reference to slavery and the fugitive
slave law. He regards the agitation oil
the subject of slavery as dangerous to
the durability Of the Union; regrets to
see States disregard their constitutional
obligations and refuse to obey the laws
of Congress. He denies that the Snu,h
has obtained advantages over the North
in the Federal Government, and proceeds
to refer to the ordinance of 1887 and
the acquisition of Louisiana to illustrate.
The balance of power between freedom
and slavery comes down to the annexa-
tionof Texas. the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, etc., and argues that the
South has got no more than belongs to
her; gives an elaborate defence OF the
principles of the Nebraska bill, and In
dignantly denies that il was breach of
faith. @
Several grave questions are pending
with regard to some of the foreign pow
ers, the most important of which is that
with Great Britain arising out of the
Nicaragua question. II was the under.
standing of the United States in making
the treaty that all the present States Of
the former Central American Republic
would thenceforth enjoy complete indie
pendence, and that both the contracting
powers engaged equally and to the same
extent for the present and future, that if
either of them had any claim of right in
Central America, such claim was unre-
servedly relinquished by the stipulations
of the convention, and that no dominion
should exist in any part of Central
America by Great Britain or the United
States. This government consented to
restrictions in regard to region OF coun-
try wherein we had specific aud peculiar
interests only upon the conviction that
like restrictions were in the same sense
obligatory on Great Britain. But for this
understanding it would never have been
concluded by US. Great Britain so con-
strues the convention as to maintain un-
changed all her previous pretensions over
the Mosquito coast, etc. These preten-
sions are founded on assumptions of po-
litical relations between Great Britain
and the remnant of Indians on that coast,
entered into at time when the whole
country was in the colonial possession of
Spain. 1t cannot be successfully con-
troverted that by public law of Europe
and America, no possible act of such In
dams or their predecessors confer on
Great Britain any political rights. 1t,
however, became apparent that Great
Britain still continued in the exercise of
large authority in all that part of Cen
trail America, commonly called the Mos
quito coast, and covering the entire length
OF Nicaragua and part of Costa Rica.-i
This act of Great Britain being contrary
to the rights of the States of Central
America as understood by this govern
ment, has been made the subject OF ne
gotiation through the American minister
in London. Great Britain has by re-
peated and successive treaties renounced :
all pretensions of her own and recog- t
nized the full and sovereign rights of
Spain in the most unequivocal TERMS
Great Britain now re-aSserts her right to
this extent of the gulf coast. In the !
eastern coast OF Nicaragua the interior .
ence of Great Britain, although once ex-
cried in the form of the military occu- !
patton of the port of San Juan del Norte,
she now presents claims of the rightof
protectorate over the Mosquito Indians.
The President adds that this government
steadily denies that at the date of the
treaty, Great Britain had any possession !
on that coast, other than the limited es-
adjustment at Balize.
The President states that the British
government sees no reason for the inter
ruption of peaceful intercourse on ac-
count of this difference of opinion, and
hopes for an amicable solution of this
controversy He adds that there is. how
ever, reason to apprehend that with Great
Britain in actual occupation of the dis
puted territories, this international diff
Guilty cannot long remain undetermined
without involving In serious danger the
friendly relations which it is the interest
as well as the duty. of both countries to
cherish and preserve. 1t will afford me
sincere qualification, says the President,
ii future efforts shall result in the success
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