Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-12-06
The Presidents Message.
From the Picayune.7

From the Picayune.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The Presidents mes
sage was delivered to Congress to~day.
The President claims that the result of the
recent Presidential election is an emphatic
condemnation of a sectional policy and an
equally emphatic declaration in support of the
| equality OF the States i. the Union.
The President condemns generally the sIa-
very agitation, a history of which he gives.
He defends the Kansas Nebraska act and
The repeal or the Missouri compromise, which
be argues was no breach of faith.
The President than reviews the recent
events in the Territory of Kansas. The dis
orders which prevailed there, he SAYS, were
grossly exaggerated for party effect. The real
trouble was that a political party turned Kan,
sas into a battle field for the purpose of infu<
encing the Presidential election.
The President then announces that all dis
orders are suppressed, and that civil war no
longer exists in Kansas.
Nearly the entire message relates 10 this
subject.
The reference in the message to foreign af-
fairs is brief and unimportant.
During the fiscal year the receipts into the
Treasury from customs duties, amounted to
wv CHdli SIALS AIbul uIllIIOuS Vi QOtIdIS, anu
from all sources, to seventy~lhree millions nine
hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, which,
with the balance on hand on the first day of
July, 1855, made the total resources ninety
two millions eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
The expenditures during the fiscal year, in
GLIDING three millions of dollars, in the execu>
ton of The treaty with Mexico, and excluding
the sums paid in liquidation of the public debt
amounted to sixty millions one hundred and
seventy-two thousand dollars. The public
debt has been reduced to thirty millions nine
hundred thousand dollars.
The President recommends such. an altera-
ton in the tariff as will reduce the revenue
from customs duties to fifty millions of dollars.
Certain changes in the policy Of distributing
the troops are alluded to, and an increase in
the naval force is recommended.
The advantage and desirableness Of new
contracts for the conveyance of the California
mails by the Tehuan.epec or Nicaragua route
IS urged upon the attention Of Congress.
The President announces the conclusion of
a supplemental treaty with Great Britain,
whereby the controversy as to the construction
Of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty has been settled.
The Sound dues question, the President an
n%ounces, is not yet settled, but is in a state
that leads him to hope it will ere long be satis>
f%actoriIy arranged.
With Spain, the President says, no new
difficulties have arisen, but he regrets to add
that little progress has been made in the settle
ment OF the pending questions between the
two countries. The negotiations with a view
TO the relief of our with Cuba from
some ofi burdens, ana to provide for a more
speedy settlement OF local disputes, lie says,
have not yet been attended with any evident
results.
The President assents to the abolition of
priVateering, proposed by the seven powers re-
presented in the Paris Conference, provided the
proposition be so amended as TO exempt the
private property of belligerents, except articles
contraband of war, from capture. He expresses
a hope that this amendment will be adopted.
The President inform sCongress that he has
refused TO receive either of the recent Minis
ters sent from Nicaragua to Washington, be-
cause 1t is Impossible at present to tel! which
IS the Government de facto.
He also announces that he will resist the
Of New Granada in any attempt
TO levy her tonnage or mail taxes on US.
The President expressly charges the Governs
ment of New Granada with being responsible
for the Panama riot it April last. He states
that he has demanded fall indemnity and provi-
sion for the families Of the American citizens
who were Killed in the riot, and that he has
appointed a special commissions to negotiate
with the New Granadian Government for
indemnity for the past, and securities for the