Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-12-10
PRESIDENTS rIEsaAoE.


Third Session Of tie Thirty sepe,.d Congress,
December LIST, 1862
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of
Represent atives:
Since your last assembling al OF lcr year of
health anu bountiful harvests + as passed, and
while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless
Us With return ofpeace, we cannot hut press
on guarded br the best light he gives US,
trusting that in his own good time and wise
way, ali viii be well.
oUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The correspondence touching foreign affairs
which has taken place during the last wear.
IS herewith submitted, in virtual compliance
with request to that effect. made hy the
House of representative near the close of
the past session of Congress. If the con-
dition OF our relations with other nations is
less gratifying than it has usually been at
other periods it has certainly been more satis-
factory than nation so unharpily distracted
as we are, might have reasonably apprehend-
ed
In the month Of June last there were some
grounds to expect that he maritime powers
which ct tie beginning OF our domestic diff
cuIties so unwisely and so unsuccessfuIIv as
we think, recognized the insurgents as a bel
lgerent power, would soon reeede from that
position which has proved only less iDi .rious
to tnemrelyes than to our country. but the
temporary reyerSos which afterwards betei
the national arms and which were exaggerat-
cd By out o,gn disloyal citizens abroad, have
hitherto delayed that act of simple Justice
The civil war which has o radically chang
ed for the moment the occupations and habits
OF the American people, has necessarily dis
turbed the social condition and affected very
deeply the prosperity of the nations with
winch we have carried on a commerce that
mas been steadily Increasing throughout
period Of half century. It has at tie same
time excited political ambitions andapprehen-
SONS which have produced a profound agita-
| ton throughout the civilized world
In this unusual agitation we have forborne
| taking part IN any controversy between par
ties and factions in any such States. We
| have attempted no propagandism and ac-
| knowIedged no revolution, but we have left
| to every nation the exclusive conduct and
management of its own affairs Cur strur-
gle has been Of course contemplated b. for
eign nations w. iJh reference less to its own
merits than to its supposed and often exac-
geGated effects and the consequences resulting
to those natiors themselves Nevertheless.
eomp!aint On the part of this government,
even if 1T were just, would certainly be un-
wise.
SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
preston OF the slave trade has been put into
/ operation with q good prospect of complet7
success. 1t is an occasion of especial pleas
ure to acknowledge that the execution of it on
the part of Her Majesty's government has
! been marked with jealous respect for the
/ authorities of the United States, and the
/ rights Of their moral aud loyal citizens
Ihe convention with Hanover for the abo-
! lItion Of the State dues has been carried into
/ full effect under the act Of Congress for that
| purpose
| The COAST BLOCKADE
/ blockade of 5000 miles of sea coast
/ could not be established and vigorously en-
! forced in a season of great commercial activi-
ty like the present without committing occa-
si0nal mistakes, and inhcting unintentional
| injuries upon foreign nations aud their SUD
/ Jects. A civil war, occurring in country
/ where foreigners reside and carry on a trade
unuer treaty stipulatious, is necessarily fruit
| fGl II complaints Of I'll violations OF neutral
/ rights. All such collisions tend to excite
misapprehensions and possibly to produce
national reclamations between nations which
nave common interest In preserving peace
and friendship
In clear cases Of these kinds have. 50 far
as possible, heard and redressed complaints
which have been preferred by friendly powers
I mere IS, however, large and augrnentinr
NUMBER OF doubtful cases upon which the
/ Government IS unable to agree with the Gov.
| whose protection is demanded bv the claim
ants. Ihere are moreover, many cases i'll
winch the United States or their citizens sgf-
Ter wrongs from naval or military authorities
OF foreign nations, which the government of
1hese states are not prepared to redress.
AN INTERNATI)NAL CONVENTION.
/ have proposed to some of the foreign
states thus interested mutual conventions t,
examine and adjust such complaints. This
proposition has been made especially To Great
Britain, to France, to Spain and to Prussia.
In each case it has been kindly received hat
has not yet been formally adopted
THE CASE OF 4 SoRwEGIAy EAaK.
deem it my duty to recommend an app-o-
Il Pration IN behalf of the owners of the Nor
I weglan bark Admiral Z. Forcien= kiola wb;ct
vessel war in Nay 1861, prevented bv the
commander of the bloclzading force of Char
4 lesion, from leaving that port with a cargo.
4 Notwithstanding similar privilege had
shortly before been grrnted to an English
vessel. j have directed the Secretary Of State
to cause the papers in the case to be commu-
hlcated to the popular committee.
AFRICAN EMIGRATION.
Application have been made to me by many
Tree Americans Of African descent to f,vor
theif emigration, with view to such coIoni-
zatlon as was contemplated in recent acts OF
I Congress. Other parties, at home and abroad
some from interested motives, Others upon
patriotic principles, and still others infuenc-
ed by philanthropic sentiments, have suggest
ed similar measures while on the other hand
several ofthe Spanish American Republics
have protested against the sending Of such
colonies to their respective territories
Onder these circumstances / have declined
i 20 move any such cuiony to any State with
/ out first obtaining the consent Sits Govern
ment, with an agreement on its part to receive
and protect such emigrants in all their RIGHTS
/ as freemen, and have, at the same time,
1 offered to the several States situated in the
tropics, or having colonies there to negotiate
I with them, subject to the advice and consent
+ Of the Senate, to favor the voluntary emigra-
ton OF portions of that class to their respec-
i tive Territories, upon conditions which shall
/ be equal, just and humane
Liberia and Hayti are yet the only countries
/ to which e0lonists of African descent from
+ here could go with certainty of being re-
/ ceiyed and adopted "a citizens, and | regret
/ to say that such persons, contemplating col
onization. do not seem so willing to enigr4te
+ to these countries as some oths=s, nor so will
4 ling as think their interest demands. | be-
! lieve. however, that the opinion is improving
4 thprp will lfa a,sr,,..,,,