Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-03
Presidents Message
Rtlojp-eifizt1s of 2t Senate

Since your last annual assembling an
other year ofhealth and bountitnl harVests
has passed Aud while It has not pleased
the Almighty TO bless Us With return OF
peace, NO can bat press on guided by the
pest light He gives us, trusting that in HislI
own good time, aud wise way, all viii yet
be well.
The correspondence touching foreign af-
fairs which has taken place during the last
year is herewith submitted, in virtual COM
pliance with request TO that effect, made
by The House of Representatives near the
close Of the last session Of Congress,
II the conditions OF our relations with
other nations is less gratifying than it has
usually been at former periods, it is GER
tainlS more satisfactory than 3 nation SO
unhappily distracted as Ne are, might reas
onably have apprehended. In the month
Of June last there were some grouuds7tot
expect that the maritime powers which, At
the beginning Of our domestic difficulties,
so uuWisely aud unnecessarily, rs we think,
recognized the insurgents as q belligerent,
would soon recede from that position,
which has proved only less injurious to
themselves, than 10 our oRu country. But
the temporary reVerseB which afterwards
befell the national arms, and which were ex-
aggerated by OprzoWn disloyal citizens
abroad, have hitherto delayed the act OF
simple justice.
The civil war, which has so radically
changed, for the moment, the occupations
and habits of the American people, has nee
essarily disturbed the social condition, and
affected very deeply the prosperity of the
nations with which We have carried on q
commerce that has been steadily increAs-
ing throughout period of half q century.
II has, At the same time, excited political
ambitions and aPprehensions which have
produced profound agitation throughout
the civilized world. In thisuuGsual agi-
tRti0n We have forborne from taking part
in any controversy between foreign states,
and between parties or factions in such
states. We have attempted no propagad-
ism, and acknowledged no revolution. But
we have left TO every nation the exclusive
conduct and management ofits own affairs.
Our struggle has been, of course, contain
plated by foreign nations with reference
iesS 10 its own merits, than to its supPos-
ed. aud often exaggerated effects aud con-
sequences resulting to those nations Them
selves Nevertheless, complaint on the
part Of this government, even if it were
Just, would certainly be unwise.
The treaty with Great Britain for the
suppression of the slave trade has been
put into operation with good prospect o
complete success. It is an occasion OF
special pleasure, to acknowledge that the
execution of IL, on the part of her Mnies-
tvs government, has been marked with .
Jealous respect for the authority of the
United States, and the rights Of their NOR
al andloyal citizens.
The convention with Hanover for the
abolition of the state dues has been car
riei into effect, under the actot Congress
for that purpose.
A blockade of three thousand miles OF
sea.coast could not be established, and
vigorously enforced, in a season of great
co1nmerciaI activity like the present, with
out committing occasional mistakes, and
inIiieting unintenLiouAl injuries upon
foreign nations and their subjects.
. A civil war occurring in a country where
foreigners reside and carry on trade under
treaty stipulations, is necessarily fruitful
of complaints of the violation of neutral
Fights. All such collisions tend TO excite
misapprehension, and possibly to produce
mutual reclamations between nations which
have commoninterest in preserving peace
and friendship. In clear cases Ofthsse
kinds have, so far as possible, heard and
redressed complaints which have been
presented by friendly powers. There is
still however large and auRmenting
number of doubtful cases upon which the
government IS unable to agree with the
governments whose protection is demand
ed by the claimants. There are, more
over many cases in which the United
States, or their CitiEensr suffer wrongs
from the naval or military authorities Of
foreign nations, which the government of
those are not at once prepared to redress.
i haye proposed TO some of the foreign
states, thus interested, mutual conventions
10 examine and adjust such complaints.
This proposition has been made especially
to Great Britain, to France, to Spain, and
10 Prussia. In each case IL has been kindly
reeeived, but has not yet been formally
adopted. 80 - ~.
/ deem Il my duty to recommend an APP
.nronriafion In behalf of the owners o.. the
Sorweoiau bark Admiral P. Tordeuskiold,
which vessel was, in May, 1851, prevented
by the commander Of the bloekadtng force,
oE Charleston from leaving that port with
cargo, Notwithstanding similar privilege
had, shortly before, been granted TO an
English vessel. have directedithe Sec
retSry of State to cause the papers In the
case TO be communicated to the proper
committees. 81 tesEs.i .a,,sf.z sat.
Application have been, made to me by
MANY free Americans of African descent to
favor their emigration. with n view
To such soioniEation as 'sas contemplated
n recent acts of Congress. Other parties,
Al home and abfoad-some from interested
notices. Others from patriotic eonsidera-
lions. and still others Influenced by Philan-
thropic sentiments-have suggested simi-
lar measnres while. on the other hand.
seYersi of the Spanish Americas rsPpblies
have protested against the sending Of such
colonies to their respective territoeies.--
Under these cireumstaneesiI have declined
70 move any such colony 10 any states with
ont frst obtaining the consent Of its gov
eminent, with an agreement on its part 70 |
nd mr. Quah Ami1flntS IN All /
the rights Of freemen; and IShave at the
same time, offered to the several stateb |
situated within the tropics, or having coli
onies there, to negotiate With them subject
TO the advice and consent Of the Senate, to
-6agor.the voluntary emigration of persons