The Nevada Democrat., 1857-01-07

manded of that government that the perpetra-
tors of the wrongs in question should be pun
ished; that provision should be made for the
families of citizens Of the United States who
we're killed, with full indemnity for the proper
ty pillaged or destroyed. For this purpose ne
gotations have been instituted by means of a
special commission, to obtain from New Grana-
da full indemnity for injuries sustanedby our
citizens on the Isthmus and satisfactory secu-
rity for the general interests of the United
States. #ft5ttt
In conclusion, the President says:
In addressing to you my last annual message
the occasion seems to me an appropriate one
to express my congratulations In view OF the
peace. greatness, and felicity which the United
States now possess and enjoy. To point you TO
the state of the various departments of the Gov
ernment and of all the great branches OF the
public service, civil and military, in order to
speak of the intelligence and the integrity which
peryades the whole, would be to indicate but
| imperfectly the administrative condition Of the
country. and the beneficial effects of that on the
general welfare.
Nor would it suffice to say that the nation is
actually at peace at home and abroad that Its
Industrial interests are prosperous; that the can
! vas of its mariners whitens every sea; and that
the plow of its husbandmen is marching stead-
| v onward to the bloodless conquest OF the Con-
tinent; that cities and populous States are
sprnging up, asif by enchantment, from the
bosom of our Western wilds, and the courageous
energy of our people is making of these United
States the great Republic of the world. These
| results have not been attained without passing
through trials and peris, by experience OF
which, and thus only, nations can harden into
manhood Our fore-fathers were trained to the
wisdom which conceived, and the courage which
achieved independence, by the circumstances
which surrounded them, and they were thus
made capable of the creation of the Republic
1t devolved on the next generation to consoli-
date the work of the Revolution, to deliver the
country entirely from the influences of conflict
| ing transatlantic partalities or antipathes
which attached to our Colonial and Revolution
airy history, and to organize the practical oper
alton of the constitutional and legal institutions
of the Union. To us, of this generation, re
mains the no less noble task of maintaining ant
extending the power OF the United States. W.
have, at length, reached the stage Of the nation
al career in which the dangers to be encoun
tered and the exertions to be made, are the
incidents, not of weakness, but of strench. Ii
our foreign relations we have to attemper oul
power to the less happy condition of other Re
publics in America and to place ourselves in th'
calmness and conscious dignity of right by th'
side of the greatest and wealthiest of the en-
pires of Europe. In our domestic relations, w
have to guard against the shock of the discon
tents, the ambitions, the interests, and the exu
berant and, therefore, sometimes irregular i'm
pulses of opinion, or of action, which are th
natural product of the present political eleva
tion tho sell lfrpliancp and the restless snirit a
enterprise of the people of the United States
l shall prepare to surrender the Executive
trust to my successor and retire to private lif
with sentiments of profound gratitude TO tn,
good Providence which, during the period of my
administration, has vouchsafed to carry tn,
country through many difficulties domestic ant
foreign, and to enable me to contemplate thu
spectacle of amcable and respectful relation
between ours and all other Governments, ant
the establishment of constitutional order an(
tranquility throughout the Union. ..al