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Philadelphia,
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MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, i/9 6 -
ELECTION RETURNS.
RtTURu er Votes . ?
Dnß 1 V lO u
PRESIDENT | 1 & ii S
AND ~ m t»
VICE-PitESfDENT ,
iNcw-Hainpftiire/
Maflachufctts,
KhoJe- Iflandj
C'onnefticnt, 9 * S
Vermont, jug| - ,i
New-York,
New-Jersey, • 7 7
l c nfylvania, 1 2 14 13 ,
Delaware, i 3
Maryland, 7 4 4 3 *
Virginia,
•Kcn-neky,
T *nre fee,
North-Carolina,
Scuth-Carolina,
Georgia,
'lota!,
CONGRESS.
At 12 o'clock this day, the Senate in a body, waited
en the President of the United States at his haufe,
when the Vicc-Prefidcnt presented the following j
address in anfnver to his fpeecb to both Houses at the
opening of the fejjton—
WE thank you, ftr, for your faithful and de
tailed cxpofure of the existing situation of our
country; and we fineere!} join in sentiments of
gratitnde to an overtuliiig Providence, for the dif
tinguifUed (hve of public prosperity, and private
Itappftfe-fs, which the people of the United States
fj peculiarly
We are folly sensible of the advantages that have
resulted from the adoption of measures-(which you
have fucccfsfully carried into effect) to preserve
pence, culiivate friendthip, and promote civtliza.
lion, aniongft the India* tribe?, on the wdlern
frontiers f«eli»«s of humanity, and the me ft lr>
ltd political interells, equally encourage the conti
ntuuee of this fyltem.
We observe with pleasure, that the delivery of
the military polls, lately occupied by the Biitifh
forces, within the territory of the -United States,
was made with cordiality, and promptitude, as soon
»s circumdances would admit; and that "the other
provifionsof our treaties with Great-Britain and
Spain, that were objetts sf eventual ..arrangement,
ait sliotit being cairied ißto effect, with entire har
tcicny and good faith.
The unfortunate, but unavoidable difficulties,
that opi/ofed a timefy compliance with the terms
of the Algerine treaty, are much to be lamented :
as they may oecafion a temporary suspension of the
advantages to be derived, from a solid pease with
that powef, and a p«rfe& fecuiitv from its preda
tory warfare ; at the fame time, the lively impref
£ons that affe&rd the puttie mine?, on ttjj rcJtrap
tion of our captive fellow-citizens, afford the molt
laudable incentive to our exertions, to remove the
remaining obflacles.
WeperfefUy coincide with yuu in opinion that
the importance of our commerce demands a naval
force for its pro t eft ion again!! foreign infnlt and
depredation, and our folifitvide to attain that ob
ject will be always proportionate to its magnitude.
The necefiity of accelerating the eiUbiithment
©f certain afeful manufactures, by the intervention
of legislative aid snd protediion, and the encour
agtmcnt due to agiiculture, by the creation of
boards, (cpmpofed of intelligent individuals) to pa- !
tronife this primary pursuit of society, ar« lubjefts
which wilt readily engage our moil ferioui atten
tion.
A national univcrfity rr.ay be converted to the
tnsft uftful ptirpofes—The science of legislation,
being so efferitially dependant on the endowments
of the mind, the public interests multreceiv* effec
tual aid from the general diffufion of knowledge ;
and the United States will affumc .1 more dignified
flation, among the nations of the earth, by the
fuceefiful cultivation ofthe higher branches mi lite
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