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. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE The decision of bis imperial ma
2 ; : / oh tante ti ussia, on the
. 4'his day the resident of the United 1° 7 ne “ppsior of Ruma 2
Be: 3 transmitted to both houses question sabmatted to
i » 7
4 t '
v
A
’ .
% -h oly &.
i= preserved in it, and the youth areition, or concentrat@@ wit marrowe § 10 nd r ationg with otl} bs
well instructed in every science con. Jims where they are. With thejtries, which impose on us they 2
accted with the great objects of the limited means in the power of the ex-jtion (0 cherish and sustain oul niiiy-
They are aiso well train: {ccutive, lustructions were given (o the !factures. Satisfied, however, I tik.
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Ax
by hs institution.
b Fellow citiz=ns of the Scnate &
, free
© ly advanc<d to such a maturity, thal
y
¥
en
gnire, imposes, annually, an import-
tbat
5}
a conviction, that taking all its stipu-
advantage, deemed it my duty, in
{.compliance with the authority vested
OQ hor causes exist which are highly
- Interesting to the whole civilized world,
ob he interests of the Union, 1 shall
States
of congr:s
s the following Po
; MESSAGE.
cerning the coustruction of the
- ‘oe ~
|article of the treaty of Ghent,
ih
4
cen received. A ceunvenilon has
Many causes unite to make your becn concluded, between the parties
present meeting peculiarly Interesting under tie pediation of ns HE
fo our constituents, The operation TM2Jestys 10 Ds em Tine
of our laws, on the various subjects to which that afucle Shas I Ga Ie Yooh
which they apply, with the amend-| eect, 1n Sonfarmity with at de
, hic} they occasionally re-|S100. I shall submit this convention
main ito the senate for its advice and con
'sent as to the ratification, and if ob-
tained, shall immediately bring the
subject before congress, for such pio
visions as may require the Interposi
tion of the legisla'u'e.
In comphance with an act
session, a territorial government has
necn established in Florida, on * the!
niinciples of our system. By this ac
tive inhabitants are secared. inthe ful
enjoyment of their rights and hibertics,
and to admission into the union, with
equal partieipation iy the governmen!
with the origival states, on the con
ditions heretofore prescribed to other
lterritories. By aclausz in the ninth
article of the treaty with Spainy by
which that territory w s ceded to the
Untied Statesyit is stipulated that sat
isfaction shall be made for the injuries.
if any, which by process of law, shal
be established to have been suffered
by the Spanish officers, and individual
Spanish inhabitants, by the late oper:
ations of our troops in Florida. No
provision having yet been made, u
carry that stipulation into e ffectyit it
submitted to the considerationof cor
gress, whether it will be Top Cy
vest the competent power, 1 th c
trict court of Pensacola, or in some
tribunal, to be specially organized for
hots: of Representatives .
nt duty on the representatives of a
ree people. Our System has happt-
your cares in
be augmented
X am not aware that
respect, will
of Jas!
and to no potion of & more so, in cer
tain views, than to the United Sta‘es
Of these c.uses, and of their buariog
communicate the sertimen ts which |
have ‘formed, with that freedom which
a sense of duty dicrates. It is preper
however, to invite your aitentlof, In
the fist irs’ance, to those concerns
resp: cling which legislative provision
is thought to be particularly urgent
On the 24 hof June jast a conven-
tion of naviga ian and commerce was
consluded, in this city, between the
United States snd France, by minis-
ers duly authorised fer the purpose,
The s notion of the executive bhavine
been given to this convention, under
lations ini0 view, it (ested essentially
on a basis of reciprocal ard equal
i ti eexecutive, by the second sec-
tion of the act of the last session, of he oto
3 : ; 40.
Ke 6h of May, concerning navigation, 3 A
the : Fs 2 > The fiscal operations of the year
suspend, by proclamation, until the
fosuspend, p ? ave been more successtul than had
end of the pext session of congress, n J |
. . 1 o 1
the operations of the act, entitied «an been anticipated at the commence
Act to impose a new tonage duty | onjhent of the last session of congress.
act POSE g ge ; N . . ) " ’
Fo h shins and vessels, and for] The receipts into the Treasury dur-
reich hips @ § g . ol
fe TS ’ [ing the three first quarters of a year,
othee purposes,” and te suspend, hike {75 :
: . . _. {have exceeded the sum of fouiteen|
wize, all other duties on French ves | ° seo}
' the rooda imported in them militons seven hundred and forty-f
scls, or the goods ported 1 i , AN "a ot
which exceeded the duties on Ameri thousand: © doliais, « The piyimcuis
ean vessels; and on similar goods im made at the 'reasury during the sam:
a YOSSCIS,y © {10 G . anh
1 : ple je eXcec twelw ion:
ported in them. 1 shall submit this PP" wd have excecded tw Jve mii :
ion forthwith to the senate] 2 hundred and seventy -nine thous
sonvention fe 1 ¢nate : ; : oie
4 Fs adrice and consent as tiie’ rati [nd duilars 3 leaving in the treasu'y
f eh : on the 30th day of September last, in
See ur last sessions the prohi cluding one milion one hundred and
i Cc asl D3 18 :
Pine ya be p helsixty eight thousand five hundred
biton which had been tmposed on the :
e between the United States and piuety-two dollars and twenty
enmmerce betwe : United. States" art pnb Doda
and the British colonies, if the. Wes: four cents. which were In the treasury
lon ¢} st da { ww last. a sun
y : : n the first day ol January last, a sum
wdie wis continent, has like-| ; . rp ,
Indies, and on this 2 exceeding four millions one hundred
wise been removed. Satigciony Sv {ond twenty-eight thousand dollars,
ldsuee having YSeD Po GH » id "2°1 Besides discharging all demands
poss of EY gh Gata fur the current service of the year, in-
Rts om ps the British parlia- cluding the Interest and. ges
ment, bearing date en the 24th ofjnent of ioe pe Seb, hi Ly,
Jire last, on the conditions specified £eat s.ocx : 9 17508 ys roe
therein, I deemed it proper, in com. eighty Na dollars. ie iter
pliance with the provisions of the Sa Aly Ssiimase: . of ti e
fi s' section of the act of the last ses- defraying the current ASHE ,
sion above recited, to declare by proc. present quarter, and rec Ee i.
Jamation, bearing date on the 24th of {tW? millions of IX per So Stoc 0
Agunst lust, that the ports of the Unit: 1820, tiste will remain.iq be treasy.
ed States, and thence {oreward, and un- ty, on the first day of Jengary, Da
til ‘he end of the next sassion of con- rearly three millions of dollars. It
Fess he opened to the vessels of}!S estimated that the gross amount of
ent Rist erinthy ‘d in that trade, duties which have been secured, from
; pea re atic sheciBied in thatjtic Borst day of January to the 30th of
under the aun $f September last, has exceeded nineteen,
HEE entertained whether] Millions five hundred thousand doilars,
ie Rit PE congress appiied to thejand the amount for the whole Fo
Tritish colonies on this contigent, as probabl ot fall short of twenty-three
well 25 16 those in the West Indies ; nillions @f dollars. ; 3
atoas tbe act of varliament opened Ot the actual force in ervice under
but, as ti 2 I Ally with both.J:!'e present military establishment, the
2 mien js re toate of posts at which it is stationed; and the
wea a S a rhe obvious nol |-ondition of each post, ‘a report from
py 5s + Siatts. and ds me he secretary of war, whicn is now
joy 4 he Uni Ee ats orRes to] -ommanicated, will give a distinct idea.
je 1 she uretideyt some. discretion By like reports the state of the acade-
cs y of it, I thoumht it ad. {MY at West Point will be seen as well
2 hate vo a t it a corresponding »3 the progress which bas been made
: al “{in the fortifications along the coast,
chnsipaclion, and at the national armories and arsen-
als.
The position on the Red River, and
that at the Sanlt of St- Mare are the
only new pos:s that have been taken.
These posts with those already occupi-
ed in the meerior, are thougiit to be
well adapted to the protection of our
frontiers. Ail the force not placed iu
the garrisons along the coast, and ir
the ordinance depots, and indispensi-
bly necessary there, is placed cn the
frontiers.
"Wn
wu
it was the
ct of congrs
eon
vO
Shonld the cons:t utinpal sanction of!
the senate be given to the ratification
of the convention with France, legis-
lative provision will he necessary to
carry it fully into effect, Tas it like-
wisa will be to continue it in force,
on such conditions as may be deemed
and propery, the intercourse
which las b en opened between the
United States and British colonies. |
Rvary light in the possession of the
exacutive wi'l, in due time, be com-
municated on both subjects.
*
4st
1 S 1tal IS ~ol
ited States and Great Britain, con jed and
ficst|parts of the , protession.
bas| ways been found difficult to
direction.
disciplined in the practical)
It bas
.ne ardor inseperable from
«
al Iso
ceatrol ible, wh
that age,|'
rovernotr to accomplish this object, wise arn, that the interest of every part
far as it might be found practica- of pur Union, even of those most -
t
ich was proveatad by the dis- cfitted by manufactures, requires t
ressing malady bsfore referrefl (0 [this subject should be touched with
1
in such manner astogive it a properiTo carry: it fully into effect 1a either| he greatest caution, and a €ritical
too often
pressing which toa far,
necessary )
struction, in every such siuadon, are}
sometimes lost sight of. The great
objeetito be accomplished is the
straint of thet ardor,
regulations” and government,
diracrine 21 the energies of the youth:
ful mind to the attainment of useful!
knowledge, will keep it within a just]
subordination, and at the same time
~levare it to the highest purposes.
This object scems to be gssentialty |
obtaines in this institution, and with
great advantage to the union.
1 he milijary acalemy form
basis, in rea d to science, on which
the military establishment ests. I
furn’sics anoually, after due examina:
tion, and on the report of the academic
siaff, many well informed youths, to
511 the vacancies which occur in the
several corpss of the prmy, while
others, who retire to private hile, car-
ry with them such atiainments, as un-
ler the rights reserved to the scver-
al states to appoint officers and’ train
the militia, will enable them, by al
fording a wider field for selection, to
promote the greaf object ot the power
vested in congress, of providing for
he organizing, arming, and discipling
the miliga, Thus by, the mutual and
narnonN@co.operation of the two
rovernments in the exccution of a
power divided between them, an ob-
ject always to be cherished, the at
tainment of a great result, on which
our libertics may depend, capoot fail
to be secured. I have to add, that, in
proportion as our regular force is
small, should the instruction and dis.
cipline of the mi'itia, the great re-
gs the
o
©
'ssurce on which we rey, be pushed to
the umost extent that circumstances
will admit, ih ;
A report from the secretary of the
navy will communicate the progiess
which has bezn made in the construc-
tion of vessels of war. with other in
‘cresting details, respecting the actu-
11 state of the affairs of that depart
nent. [It has been found necessary
for the protection of our Pomme,
«0 m:intain the usual squadreps oo
the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and
along the Atlantic coas!, extending
the cru #88 of the latter into the
West ludies, where piracy, organiz
ed into a system, has preyed on the
commerce of every country trading
thi her. A cruize has always been
maintained on the coast of Africa.
when the season would permit, foi
the suppression of the slave trade ;
and orders have been given to the
commanders of our public ships, to
scize our own vessels, should they
find any engaged in that trade, and to
bring them infor adjudication.
In the West Indies piracies are ol
recent dare, which may explain the
cause why other powers have not com-
bined against it. By the documents
commuricated it will be seen that the
cfforts of the United States to sup-
press it have had a salutary effect.
The benevolent provision of the act,
under which the protection has been
extended alike to the commerce of
other nations, cannot fail to be duly
appreciated by them.
In compliance with the act of the
last session, entitled *¢ an act to abolish
the United States’ trading establish-
ments,” agents were imm: diately ap-
pointed and instructed, under the di-
rection of the secretary of the tressu-
ry, to close the business cf the trad-
ing-houscs among the [odian tribes,
and to settle all the accounts of the]
actors and sub-factors engaged in
that trade, and to execute, in all other
respects, the injunctions of that act,
in the mode prescribed therem. A
final report of their proceedings shall
be communicated to congress as soon
as itis received.
It is with great regret I have to
state that a serious malady has de-
prived us of many valuable citizens at
The organization of the several
corpse composing the army is such|
1S to admit its expansion to a great]
extent, in case of emergency, the
afficers carrying them all the
light which they possess to
Restive essentially on a basis of re-
eiprocsl and cqual advantage, it has
been the object of the executive, in
tratsaciicrns with other powers, to
meet ronositions of each othet
3 rai epirit, believing that
thereby the interest of our country
would be most eff etually promoted.
fins been systematically
seeurd in the late occurrences with
wee ond Great Britain, and 1m
ot acentd with the views of the
A confident hope is en-
t-rrajred, that by the arranerement
thee commenced with each, all differ-|
ene § toanceiing navigation and com-
pero with tle dominions in ques-
tien will te adjusted, and a solid foun-
daticp be laid for anactive and per-
Lutercourse, which will prove
with
h the new)
corpse to which they wight be ap |
pointed.
With the organization of the staff,
there is equal cause to be satisfies.
By the concentration of every branch,
with its chief in this city, in the]
presence of the departrient, and with]
a grade in the chief military station.
to keep alive and cherish a military]
spirit, the greatest. promptitude in
J
!
~
o
Jib
a
hia course 5
a
ws
Ir
r
er
3
ciglatore.
greatest economy and efficiency, are
secured. The same view is taken
of the military academy. Good order
i. AllL
Pensacola, and checked the progress!
of some of those arrangements which
are important to the territory. This
effect has been sensibly felt in res-
pect to the Indians who inhabit that
territory, consisting of the remnant of}
several tribes who occupy the middie
ground between St Augustine and |
Pensacola, with extensive claims but
undefined boundaries. Alihough
peace Is preserved with those Indians,
yet their position & claims terds es-
sentially to interrupt the intercourse
between the eastern and western parts
of the territory,on which our inh.b:-
tants are principally settled. Itis es-
sential to the growth and prosperity of
course of the union, that these Indians
should be removed, by a special eon-
The rights of manhood are mode, addition.l funds will be. neces. (knowledge of the effect to be p
claimed prematurely, inisa'y, to the provision of which theled by the siightest change.
the respect congress alone are competent.
which is due to age, and the obedicnce|a view 10 such provision a8 may be
(0 a course of study and in-{deemed prop.r, the subject is sub
re- (suspended.
by sach wise|
tion and sovereignty over the territory]
have been able to obtain, it appears OD P1®
that our manufactures though depiess-led by the attack of the racoon, screams
ed immediately after the peace, have
increased, and are still increasing, un-|
der the encouragement given them by
the Tariff of 1816, and by subsequent maintained his hold upaen the boy’s
laws.
be the abstract doctrine in
unrestricted commerce, provided all
natiens would concur 1a it, and it wasiprosght to his assistance Mr.
the execution of orders, with thelthe territerv, as well as the inter-(nut liable to be interrupted by war,
? which has never occurred, and cat not
be expected, that there are otherian
uc-
OD {uil
consideration of the subjecy, in all its
elations I am persuaded that a fur-
her augmentation may now be mads
mitted to your consideration, and inlofihe duties on ceitain fircign artis
the interim further proceedings are
With
les, in favor of our own, and without
fecting injnriously, any other inter-
It appearing that so much of the |sst
staff of the army.) which passed on
the 14th April, 1818, as Ceclates to
the commissarial, wil expire in April
next, and the practical’ operation o
made to Cong
session. ;
Bo great was the smoant of monies
fladvanced during the late war, in ad-
ress (during the last
|ihat department, having evinced itsidtiion to others of a previous date,
|W hich, mn the regular operations of ©
y necessarily remained
great utility, tre propriety of its renew
al is submitted to your considerayion. the government
The view which has been taken of uns flied, that it required a consides
the probable productiveness of the{rable length of time for their adjusts
liad mines, connected with the im [ent
portance of the material to the public!
deferce, makes it expedient that they |
should be managed w th peculiar care. [accounts then unsettled amounted to
It is thercfore suggested whether iijone hundred and three millions sixty-
would not comport with the public in |{¢ight thousand eight hundred and s y=
ter2st to provide by law for the ap-jcn'y sig doilars and forty-one cents,
pointment of an agent skilled in wil
eralogy, to superintend them, unde;|present year, ninety-three miliions one
the direction of the proper depart.| vndicd and seventy five
ment. three hundred. and pincty six doll.rs
It is understood that the Cumber-{and fifry-six cents had been setiled ;
land road, which was constructed at all aving on that day a balance vusettled
great expenses has already suffered{ol rine nilions eight hundied and
from the want of that regular superin.|Dincly-three thousand four hundred
tendance, and of those repairs, which
are indispensible to the preservation of
such a work. This read is of incalcu-
tuble advantage, in facilitating the in-
tercourse between the Western and
the Atlantic States. Throogh ity the
whole country from the Southern ex-
iremity of Lake Erie to the Mississip
pi, and from ‘all the waters which enip-
ty into_each, finds an easy and direc
communication to the seat of govern:
ment, and from thence to the Atlantic
Che tacility which it affords 10 |
military and commercial operations
and also to all those of the post office
department, cannot. be estin asd too
sighly.
somplioiicr of the treasury, itappeais
five cents. That there have bern
drawn fom the treasury, ini paying
zovernment in all its operations and
disbursements, since the 4th of March,
1817, one hundred and fifty-seven mill-
uns one huudred and ninety-nine then.
sand three hundred and eighty dollars
nd nincty-six cents, tie accounts for
which have been settled to the amonnt
ions five hundred and one thousand
four hundred and fifty-one dollars and
twelve cents ; icaving a balunce unset
led of nineteen mililons hundred
This'g: eat work is likewise [20d ninety-seven thousand nine hupd-
er
oi
For more precise details, 1 refer
as, by lact, entitied, An aot reguiaiing the(you to communications which were
By a report from the First
son the 4th of March, 1817, the §
of which on the 30th September of thes 1
thousand *
and seventy-nine dollars end eighty.
the public debt, and sustaining the
f one bundied and thirty-seven mile |
an ornament and an honor to the na red and twenty-nine dollars and eighty. {
tion, Believing that a competeat|lour cen's. For precise details res-
f internal improvement has not been to the report of the Comptroller,
granted to Congress, but thet such athe documents which accompany J
ower, confined to great national pu | From this view it appears th
poses, and with propsr limitations, commercial differences with 1
would be productive of eminent ad. and Great Britain have beens place
vantage to our union, I have thought 10 @ train of amicable arranggge
it advisable that an amendment of (he on conditions fair and Wi |
and
our
in
recommended to the several states, — finances are in a very productive state ;
A bill which assumed the right to our revenue being at present fully
adopt and execute such a system hav- competent to ail the demands upon it;
ing been presented for my signature, that our military force is well oveani-
it the last session, I was compelled zed inal its branches, and capable of
from the view which I had taken of renderine the most important service,
the powers of the General Government In case of emergency, that its number
lo negative it, on this occasion [Will admit of ; that due progress has
thought it proper to communicate the been made under existing appropria-
sentiments which I had formed. op ‘ions, inthe constructing of fortifica-
mature consideration, on the whole tions, and in the operation of the ordi
subject. To that communication, in [panee department ; that due progress
all the views in which the great inter. (has, In lite monner, been made in the
st to which it relates, may be SuPpos- constructio; ol sips of war ; that onrs
ed to merit your attention, I have now [navy is in the b.st condition, and leit
to refer. Should Congress, however Jana respected. in every sea in which
deem it improper to recommend sucht is employed for the protection of our
0 my judgment, the right to keep the [have augmented in amount, and im-
road in repair, by providing for thelproved in quality ; thar great progress
superintendance of it, and appropria- [has been made in the settlement nf ace
most economy is secured and observe
ed ip every department of the admin-
istration,
(The remainder next week.)
priate money to make the road, they
have arightto appropriate it to pre-
serve the road from ruin. From the
exercise of this power no danger is
o be apprehended. Under our bap
py system, the people are the solc
and exclusive fountain of power.—
Each government originates fron
them, and to them alone, each to 1:
proper constituents, are they respec
tively and solely responsible, for the
faithful discharge ofitheir duties, with
in their constitutional limits, And
that the people will confine their pub.
lic agents, of every station, to the
strict line of their constitutional duties
there is no cause to doubt. Having,
however, communicated my senti-|
ments to Congress, at the last session,
fully, in the doeurnent to which I have Mr. Stone’s houses to perform this ser-
referred, respecting the right of ap
propriation, as distinct frem jurisdic
a —
From the Boston Daily Advertisers *
HYDRAPHOBIA.
Izaiah Kidder, 2a boy belonging te
Ipswick, in the employ of Mr, Grego-
'y Stone, of Lincoln, died atthe latte®
00
place on the 29th uliimo, of hydrapho-
bia. The circumstances attendant up~
on this case, as far as they have reach-
ed us, are as
vice. Whilcon his way he espicd a
racoon at a short distance from him
in q 1estion, 1 deem it improper to en {which ran immediately towards fis
large en the subject here.
> : sprang over a ience and fastened up-
From the best information that I
hand, The boy much frighten
led and ran towards home, dragging
with him the furious animal “@hich
Satisfi-d, I am, whatever may
hand in spite of all his efforts to re.
favor © 3
\lease himscif.
Q
J
tof
r
whose endeavors to releass.the boy's
tract with them, to some oiher posi-
sirong reasons ap plicable to on
situ- {rasoon Were;
power to adopt gud execute a system (pecting each of these balances, I refer
nt;
constitution, to that effect, should Le both instances, fo each party; that our
follows : About six
ing cows from pasture, the lad left
an amendment, they have, according|commerce ; that our manufactures
ting the money necessary for repairs [counts, and in the recovery of balances
Kaus op x { + ea : . (ig
Surely if théy had the right to appro-{duc by individuals; afd, that the wot=
: : t dries
weeks since, at the usual time of driv
The cries of the a \
i
d from the clenched jaws of the | i
fibavailing, valil be Suc i