American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-12-14

the arrival of his successor in the consul
ate, and our relations with Egypt, as well
as the relations with the Barbary powers,
are entirely satisfactory.
The rebellion which has so long been
fragrant in China. has at last been sup
pressed with the cooperating good offices
of this government, and Of the other com,
mercial States.
The Judicial Consular establishment
has become very difficult and onerous,
and it will need Legislative action to
adapt it to the extension of our commerce
and to the more intimate intercourse
which has been instituted with the gov
ernmont and people of that vast empire
China seems to be accepting with hearty
good will the conventional laws which
regulate commerce aud social intercourse
among the Western nations.
Owing to the peculiar situation Of ia
pan and the anomalous form of its gov
ernment, the action OF that Empire in
performing treaty stipulations. is incon-
sistent and caprecious nevertheless good
progress has been effected by the western
powers moving with enlightened concert
Our own peculiar claims have been al
lowed or put in course of settlement, and
the inland sea has been reopened to com
merce. There is reason also to believe
that these proceedings have increased
rather than diminished the friendship of
Japan towards the United States.
The ports Of Norfolk, fernando and
Pensacola have been opened by pr6cla-
nation. 1t is hoped that foreign mer-
chants will now consider whether it is
not safer and more profitable to them
selves, as we'll as just to the United States,
to resort to these and other open ports.
than it is to pursue, through many haz-
ards. and at vast cost contraband trade
with other ports which are closed-ifnot
by actual military operation. at least by a
lawful and effective blockade, For my
self, / have no doubt of the power and
duty Of the Executive under the law OF
nations. to exclude enemies of the human
race from an asylum in the United States.
If Congress should think that the pro,
ceedings in such eases lack the authority
Of law, or ought to be further repudiated
by it, [ recommend that provision be
made for oaectually preventing fore gn
slave traders from acquiring domicil IA
ciities for their criminal occupation in
our country
1t is possible that If it were new and
open question, the maratime powers, with
the light they now enjoy, would not con-
cedc the privileges OF u'yal bellgerent
to the Insurgents Of the United States,
destitute as they are, and always have
been, equally Of ships and of ports and
hsbors.
Disloyai emissarics have been neither
less assiduous nor more successful during
the last year than they we're before that
time in their efforts, under favor Of that
privilege, 10 embroil our country in for
egn wars The desire and determina-
ton of the maralime States to defeat that
design are believed to be as sincere, and
cannot be more earnest than Europe ;
nevertheless, Unforeseen political difficult
ties have arisen, especially in Brazilian
and British ports, and on the northwest
ern boundary of the United States, which
have required, and are likely to continue
to acquire, the practice of constant vigi-
lance and just and conciliatory spirit on
the part of the United States, as well as
of the nations concerned and their gov
ernments.
Commissioners nave been appointed
under the treaty with Great Britain on
the adjustment of the claims of the Hud
son Bay and Puget's Sound agricultural
companies in Oregon, and are now pro
ccediug in the execution of the trust as
signed them
In view Of the insecurity of life in the
region adjacent to the Canadian border,
10y the recent assaults and depredations
committed by inimical and desperate per-
sons who are harbored there, it has been
thought proper to give notice, that after
the expiration of six mouths, the period
constitutionally stipulated in the existing
arrangements with Great Britain, the
United States, must hold themselves at
liberty to increase their naval armament
upon the lakes, if they shall find that pro-
eeeding necessary.
The condition ofNthe border will neces-
sarily come into consideration, in connec-
ton with the question OF continuing OF
modifying the right of transit from Can
ada through the United States, as well as
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