The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-12-04
Presidents Message.
Third Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress, december Ist 1852.

Since your last assembling anothe
vaar of health and bountltul harvest
has nassed, and while it has not pleas
ed the Almighty to bless us wit
2 return of peace, We cannot but pres
on. guarded by the best light he give
ms. trusting that in his own good t'm'
and wise way, all will be well.
The correspondence touching Ior'
eion affairs which has taken place
during the last year, IL herewith SUP
r,i+tod in virtual compliance with
request to that effect, made by thu
House of Rep esentatives near the
close of the past session of Congress
If the condition of our relations with
other nations is less gratifying than II
las usually been at other periods II
has certainly been more satisfactory
than nation so unhappily distracted
Is We are, might have reasonably APP
pretended.
In the month of June last there were
some grounds to expect that the mar
thine powers which at the beglnni' 2
OF our domestic difficulties so unwlse
" and so unsuccesstully as we think
recognized the insurgents as beiii@
erent power. would soon recede from
that position which has proved only
less Injurious to themselves than u
our own country, buJ the temporary
rcverses which afterwards beteI the
national arms and which were cXag
gerated by orr own dls!oyal citizens
abroad, have hitherto delayed tina
act OF simple justice
The civil wal which has so ra:iicai
ly changed tor the moment the occH~
pationS and habits OF the American
people, has necessarily disturbed tnc
social condition and Elected very
deeply the prosperity OF the nations
with which we have carried on a com
MERGE that has been steadily lncreas
ing throughout period OF halt cen
tury. 1t has at the same time excited
political ambitions and approximations
which have PRODUCED profound ~
itation throughout the civilized world
Ia this unusual agitation VIC nave
forbOrne taking part in any contr"
yersy between parties aud factions IN
any such States. We ave attempted
no propagandism and acknoW lodged
no revolution, but we have left to every
nation the exclusive conduct and mans
ageIuent of it's own affairs. Our strug-
gle has been OF course contemplated
by fore On nations with reference less
to it. own merits than To It's supposed
and often exaggerated effects and the
.nsequences resulting 10 those ma
tons themselves Nevertheless, com
plant 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 ha~
been put into operation with good
prospect Of cOmplete success. It's an
occasion of especial pleasure to ac>
kcwledge that the execution of it on
the part of Her Majesty's government
has been marked with a jealous re-
81 ect for the authorities of the United
States, and the rights of their moral
and loyal citizens.
The convention with Hanover for
the abolition of the State dues has
been carried into full effect under the
act of Congress for that purpose
A blockade of 5000 miles of sea
coast could not be established and Wig
orously enforced in season of great
commercial activity like tina present
without committing occasional miss
takes, and in1icting untntentional IN
iuries upon foreign nations and their
subjects. A civil war, occurring in a
country where foreigners reside and
carry on trade under treaty stipala
tons, IS necessarily fruitful of com>
plants Of the violations Of neutral
rights. All such collisions tend to
excite misapprehansiOns and possibly
to produce national reclamatl0ns be-
tween nations which have a common
interest in preserving peace and
friendship.
In clear cases of these kinds | have
so far as possible heard aud redressed
comrIaints which have been preferred
Ivy friendly powers. There i, howev
or, a large and augmentlng number OF
doubtful cases Upou which the gov
eminent is unable TO agree with the
Government whose protection Is de
mandec by the claimants There are,
moreover, many cases in which the
Cu ted States or their citizens Sutfrr
wrongs from naval or military author
titles Of foreign nations, which the gov
ernment OF these States are not pre-
pared to redress
have proposed to some OF the for
eign States thus interested mutual
conventions to examine aud adjust
such complaints. This proposition
his been made especially t. q ea,e
Britain, to France, to Spain and to
i uSsia. In each case it has been
kindly received but has not yet been
formally adopted.
deem it my duty to recommend an
appropriation in behalf of the owners
o. the Norwegian bark Admiral p.
Forclens RioIa, which vessel wa in
May 1891 prevented by The commander
OF the btockadlng force off ChartestoI
from leaving that port with a cargo
Notwithstanding similar privilege
hal shortly before been granted to al,
English vessel. | have directed tn
Secretary OF State to cause the papers
in the case to be communicated TO the
proper committee.
Applications have been made to III,
by many free Americans of African
descent to favor their emigration, with
a view to such colonization as wa
contemplated III recent acts of Con-
gress. Other parties, at home auc
abroad, some from interested motives.
others upon patriotic principles, ant
still others influenced by philanthrn-
pic sentiments, have suggested SIM
liar measures; while on the other hand
several OF the Spanish American Re
publics have protested AGAINST the