Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-04

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| the public good.
This devotion will lead US to strongly re-
sist all impatience of constitutional limi-
! tations of Federal power and persistently
| check the increasing tendency to extend
the scope of Federal legislation into the
domain of State and local Jurisdiction.
! Upon the plea of subscribing the public
welfare, the preservation or the part 1t
| takes between proper subjects OF Federal
and local code and regulation is OF such
| Importance, under the Constitution, which
| is the law of our very existence, that no
consideration of expediency or sentiment
should tempt US TO enter upon doubtful
ground. Having undertaken to discover
and proclaim the blessings of free gov
| ernment, with the Constitution as our
| guide let US follow the way it points out.
Let us hope 1t will not mislead US, and
surely no one who has taken upon himself
| solemn obligations to support and preserve
| the Constitution can ind qualification or
solace for disloyalty in the excuse that he
wandered and disoSeyed in search of a
better way to reach the public welfare than
| that the Constitution offered.
PROTECTION OF POPULAR RIGHTS.
What has been said is deemed not inap-
| propriate, at time when from centurys
| hight We view the way already trod by the
|
| their future path. The seventh President
| of the United States, the soldier and states
man, and the firm and brave friend OF the
people, in vindication of his course as the
protector of the popular rights, and the
| champion of the true American citizen, de-
| clared: The ambition which leads me on
is an anxious desire and fixed determina-
ton to restore to the people unimpaires,
| the sacred trusts they have contded to my
| charge; to heal the wounds of the Constl-
tuition, and preserve it from further viola
! ton; to persuade my countrymen, as far as
| may, that it is not in a splendid Govern
ment supported by powerful monopolies
| and aristocratical establishments, that they
will find happiness, or their liberties pro-
| tected, but in plain syctem void of pomp,
| protecting all and granting fayors to none,
dispensing its blessings ike the dews of
heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in the
freshness and beauty they contribute and
produce that the genius of our people re-
quires. Such an one only under which our
States may remain for ages to come united,
prosperous and free"
AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD.
In pursuance OF a constitutional provi-
vision, requiring the President from time
to time to give TO the Congress information
of the state of the Union, | have the salts
faction to announce that the close of the
year finds the United States in the enjoy
ment of domestic tranquility, and at peace
with all the nations. Since my annual
message our foreign relations have been
strengthened and improved by the per-
| formance of international good Offices and
by new and renewed treaties of amity
commerce, and reciprocal extradition of
criminals.
Those international questions which still
await settlement are ali reasonably within
the domain of amicable negotiation, and
there is no existing subject of dispute be-
tween the United States and any foreign
power that is not as susceptible of satisfac-
tory adjustment by frank diplomatic treat
menL. The questions between Great Britain
and the United States, relating to the
rights of American fishermen under treaty
| and international comfy in the territorial
waters of Canada and Newfoundland, l re-
gret TO say, are not satisfactorily adjusted.
These matters were fully treated in nv
message to the Senate of February 20, 1888,
| together with which a convention, con-
| cluded under my authority with her Ma
jestys Government on the 18th of February
last, for the removal of all causes of misun-
derstanding, was submitted by me for the
approval of the Senate.
This treaty having been rejected by the
Senate, transmitted message to Congress
on the 23d of August last reviewing the
| transactions and submitting for considera-
| ton certain recommendations for legisla-
| ton, concerning the important questions
| involved. Afterwards, on the 18th of Sep
| tember, in response to a resolution of the
| Senate, l again communicated fully the
information IN my possession, as to
| the action of the Government of Canada,
affecting the commercial relations between
thA 1Arp aTtzSN 4 1I..s4
| including the treatment of American
| fishing vessels, in the ports and waters
| of British North America. The commune
| cations have all been published, and there
| fore opened to the knowledge of both
| Houses of Congress, although two were
| addressed TO the Senate alone. Comment
upon a repetition of their contents would
be superfluous, and | am not aware any
| thing has occurred which should be added
I to the facts therein stated. Therefore l
merely repeat as applicable to the present
time. the statement which will be found in
my message to the Senate of September
| 18th last: That since March /, 1887,
no case has been reported to the Depart
ment of State where complaint has been
made of unfriendly or unlawful treatment
J of American fishing vessels on the part of
| Canadian authorities in which reparation
was not promptly and satisfactorily OBJ
| tanned by the United States Consul General
| at Halifax.
Having essayed in the discharge of my
duty to secure by negotiations the settle
ment of a long standing cause of dispute,
and to remove constant menace to the
| good relations of the two countries, and
continuing to be of the opinion that the
treaty of February last which failed to re-
ceive the approval of the Senate, did sup
| ply a satisfactory, practical and final ad-
| justment, upon basis honorable and Just
to both parties of the difficult and vexed
question to which it related, and having
subsequently and unavailingly recon-
mended other legislation to Congress,
| which | hoped would suffice to meet the
emergency created by the rejection of the
treaty, now again invoke the earnest, i'm
mediate attention of the Congress to the
condition of this important question, as it
| now stands before them and the country,
| and for the settlement of which l am
deeply solicitous.
| LORD sACKvILLE WEST.
Near the close of the month of October
last, occurrences of deeply regretable ma
ture were brought TO my knowledge which
made il my painful but imperative duty to
obtain, with as little delay as possible, a
new personal channel of diplomatic inter
course in this country with the Govern
| ment Of Great Britain.
The correspondence in relation to this
! incident will in due course be laid before
you, and will disclose the objectionable
conduct of the official referred TO in his
interference, by advice and counsel, with
| the suffrages of American citizens in the
! very crisis of the Presidential election then
| near at hand also in his subsequent pub
lie declarations, to justify his action, super
adding impugnment of the Executive and
the Senate of the United States, in connec-
ton with important questions now pend
ing In controversy between the two Gov
ernments.
The offense thus committed was most
gross, involving disastrous possibilities to
the good relations Of the United States and
! Great Britain, constituting a gross breach
! Of diplomatic privilege and invasion of the
| purely domestic affairs and essential SOW
ereignty of the Government 70 which the
! envoy Was accredited Eaviup first fulfilled