The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-12-05
Nlt PntSWENIlS MESSAGE,

since yOur Ihrt 'esCulDllDR, hU
other year Of health aud boun,iIul
'hsi vest has passed. end while It bas
not pfessed the Almighty TO bless
'us wita o return Of pence, we can
not but nress On, guarded by the
hest light he gives ss, trusting that
in his own time aud Wise way all
will be we'll.
" =" FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The correspondence touching for
eign Affairs which has taken p'ac,
during the last year 10 herewith sub
United in virtual compliance with a
request to.thst effect, made by the
'Ilouse OF Representatives. near the
close Of the last session Of Congr, ss.
II the conditions oil our relations
with other nations !s less gratifying
than il has usually been at former
y, riods, is certainly more satisfsc-
tory than q nation 80 unhsppily dis.
'trncted as we are, might reaso onab' y
have spprehended.
: Ia The month OF June last, there
were some grounds TO expect tha
the maritime powers which at ih,
beginning of our domestic Difficult
ties, so unwisely and so nnsuccess
fully as we think, recognized th'
Insurgents as bclligerent powel
would soon rtcedc from that posi-
lion which HIS proved only less in
furious to themselves than to on
country.
But Lie / mporary reverets wh C.
aiter@ ards befel the national urma
and which were exaggerated by ou'
disloyai ciiiz ms abroad, have hith'
erto delayed that act Of simple jus
Jtice. The civil war which has sc
radically changed for the momen
The occupation habits of the Amer
lean people, has necessarily disturb
ed the social conditions and affected
very deeply the prosperity OF ih'
nations with which we have carried
on q commerce that has been ste ad
lily increasing throughout a perirt
~ half q century. 1t has, at th'
came time, excited political ambi
,ions and sppr. h neicns, which hav,
produced o profound agitation thro'
out the civilized world. In this un
usual agitation we have forborpt
taking part in any controversy be
tween parties and factions in any
such States. We have attempted
no propagandism, and acknowledg
cd no revolution, but we have left Il
every nation the exclusive conduc
and management OF it's own affairs
Our struggle has been, OF course
contemplated by loreign nations with
reference, less 10 its own merits, thar
10 it's supposed aud often exsggera
I'D oil, cts, and tho consequences re
snltinG to those natiors themselves
Nevertheless, complaint on the
part of'tbis Government, even if Il
were jus', would certainly be un'
wise.
INDIVIDUAL GRIEVANCES.
A blockade of 5000 miles Of Sc,
coast could not be established ant
vigorously enforced in season o
great commercial activity like tn,
present, without committing occa
Sjonal mistakes and inilicting unin
territorial injuries upon foreign ma
tions and their subjects. A civil wal
occurring in country where ioreigI
ers Reside and carry on a airade under
treaty stipulations is necessarily
fruitful OF complaints of the viola
tions OF neutral rights. All sucl
collisions tend to excite misappre
tensions. and possibly, to produce
national recriminslions between ma
tions which have a common interes
in preserving peace and friendship.
in clear cases Oh these kinds,
have, so tat IA possible, heard and re
dressed complaints which have been
preferred by friendly powers. There
10, however, a large and augmentiIg
pnmber OF doubtful cases, upoi
which the government is unable tt
agree with the governments whose
protectisn u is demanded by the claim.
ants. There arc, moreover, many
cases in which the United Stat 8, OF
their citizens, suffer wrongs from ma.
val or military authorities Of foreign
nations. which the government oI
these States are not at once prepar
ed 10 redress. | have lr'poscd ia
some Of the foreign States, thus in
terested, mutual conventions, to OK
anime aud adjust such complaints
This proposition has been made es
pecisily to Great Britain, France
Spain and Prussia. In each case i
has beeh kindly received; but haI
not yet been formally adopted.
..l coLoNIzAII N.
Applications have been made t.
me by many free Americana of Atri
can descent to iavor their emigration
with q Wow to such colonization a
was contemplated in recent acts o
Congress. Other parties, at hom,
and abroad ,soms nom tut rested mo
tises, and other nations have sngges
tel similar measure, while on th,
other hand several OF the Spsnisl
American Republics have protesie,
against the sending oi such colonie
IN THAR reenpcti VA ierl itorita