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' '' at' ' ' . 4 ' -'I .- 4,.: -:: .:.:.....;. 4.--.. -.,•., '.-...,1-‘.....„,.. afy heart adli clings to. that , sweet. childi .." I 01 04 1 1 see-Ilint-noir t' • .-: ,-.-,. :A . ,i wheu,the ref, fint:of,health, iferstievad 'his youthful brave.... , -. ~., :fu thought ; j See thoie featiresliright, - Replete with . htitnrattiox ; But, eh! •disailbNirith drat' ly blight : , . .;• Siiiireetot - . the' lively boy.-= !lon • againtl=AlasT hti's no* ! - W. th 'Sickness lylng low,' -•• ..; • ,-, - }IN cikeekks, health's rosy hue have kit— W 41) i'vertsh , heat they glow, •_. Nis dttninld yet lustibtis_eyes reveal, A trpiri:Cfree frottrataln; ___ . _ ... - at see,•=—Death cotnes . ".;;-there*s no appeal, That ftesone can restrain. . . ' •- ‘. 4 brdi tiore I gaze .upon his bet:, ''.., 1 *iii`tteeks have ceased to gloti, itteattila 10 fing , erhAs congealed ' 1 'Lifl'i*tYelit it; its iii)W; .. Ithoughlini6w with grief] shed a tear, - (F 1N . th•sati/14reave a sigh; _ \ .I kne "Night=artrtils haiering near . -, •:$' ICO d uet his son! on high.' • - ,:.- J. F. a St. J. seph'i College Susq Cti. - Pa., Dec '55. t. fr ' - iI # .IPItIB,SiDENT.VItiIIeSSAGE, ; ... Pimi.:rettiiinveills-! Senate and House of - Rep . r'''. . ttitet t• • . . • . - . ..•• .1. . • . . The - nin...,titoOon' of the United States pro 'vifies il at ' ingress-shall assemble. annually •oli the kist 1 findav of -. December; and it has . - be'er. usial 1 or the 7 Piesident to make no emu tunitienkjonlOta. public charaeter - to' : the Sett-. :ate and Huse of - ReprPsentativeik - until ad yiied of then- reidiness to receive it. -I have defer n re.i. tol his usage until the eloSe Of the fistmo th I f the session, but my eoiivietionic ofdut v vyiliti‘ - 4 perniit me longer to poStpone . the diOiar e of the . obligation enjoined by 'the, OAStif ticin upon the President " to give t to' the CO ressinformation of the state of "-the Oiion and recommend to their eoi:- " Siileratiio'n !Mth meastire.s'as - he shall judge " neee4trylnadY , exp - e.ilient.7'.... It is butt er_of congratulation tbnt the Be pabliels trimiquilly . Jed vancing itt - t Career of ptp . spentv:np4'peace.: :, •,. -.. .-_ Fogel l o, l i i.F.l. ATI ONS.-7—CENTRA I. : A SlikilLe .4. _! INV i 01,e CO :1110r lf •-1' e - • a: re a. , us,ot amity, continue to exist, b4iveei the', • United States- and: _all foreign powersl with some of them grave questions arj:dependi4g, which inay require the consid erationlrf, ; ongre s s.. Pf st eh iiitestions, the most important is that which !has arisen out of the negotiations with G est. !Britain. in reference to , Central •Aineri-e .1 - , . , . , By t i le le nvention concluded between the t t.w6 . oevern . ents'ori the 19th of April, 1850,1 both iu4tiez4 m covered that " neither• will ever" " OccuPv, o, fortify, or colonize, or assue or . r "eitercie ait i , dontinion ovetlNicaragtot, Cos-1 . 4 * ta Rica, the lifoinplito coast, or arty' art of ~C entral Ai erica." - - I. - - it was.th Undoubted understatt4itigorthe t rt I.7nited it;ta, '.,,s in making this treatT, that-all the,,present ; t tates of the former Republic of- CentrarAtn rka, and the entire territory of ea t :h would thenceforth enjoy- complete in-: dT L e i'ide l nee" - i, and that both contracting, par-- ties en,gag i equally, and to the same extent, ...1 l forithe pres t and for the future; that if ei ther then ,hail atty.cluim of right in Central Atnerica," slid, .chiiin. atul all -c,,,,v.m r .t=t7&r,r, ,authoritv . .under it, were unreservedly relit)- .- qutslierl 'by , t lie stiionlations of the convention; and that nojdomtnion • was thereafter to be exercised orLas• sumed in any part of Central: AMericti by i -• Great 'Britain or.- the. United - StAtes. 1 l' .n This Gore tueniCon.sented to restrictions in regard toll legion of Country. Wherein ...‘.e haa specificiatid . peuuliar interests, only:op-, onjthe tionvitiott , Ual,' the like restrictions 'wee in the ham sense_ obligatory on Ureat': , Britain. 111,it. for _ this understanding of the foree and ctl'et of 'the 'convention, it would', never hsve `'• • n concluded: by us. - ' •- ' ' So tkir- ,as ,'this tinti erg.tandirt on the hie part of tile! ! tilted States, that, in Correspint deiice e•kent - Pora — PEV - tie trill) the ratification of the cotiventiOn, it was .distinetli,exptws.ed• thit the hint al covenants of- non-oectipa.tion • were not int . ' ded to . ' apply - to the British m la lislunent i t the Belize - This 'qualifies-. tio .is to be! ascribed to the fact, - that, in_ It f virtue o - end treaties- with previous sm l ereimis :oil ,untiy • theeb Great Britain had-' 1 e.! Li - obtanedlaitii?ncession of the right to cut pm hokany for !dye-woods at the . Belize, but with . poti tive ie,xelnsion of all domain or sovereign-, ty ; such thus; it couftrtusthe an naturaleonstnic tion dtunderstOod import of the treaty' as. - ii i to ill the restof the region to which the stip ulaticmsapplied. It hoWever bseatne . apparent, at .an early - da4;f te atrentering.opott the _disc itarge of, my preserillotWionSq - that Greafßritaiii!still eon-' tinned in the exercise: or -assertion of lame e. •!!• ri, aathorttv in, all that Tart of, Central .A.trierica eoeitn4lf,etilleil the thisquitti Coast; and coiering the • entire length of the. State of Nicaragua-, and apart of Costa Rica; ,that :she regarded ilie-Balize - is her abselute do ,lnOrt; and Was gr l adually extending its limits :at the eipetise' of the State of Honduras; and ithat s'hel had' form - 0 7 11y colonized ‘a considerit 'tblyi insular groni*nowa as the,Bity Islamist -and lielengiug, of right, to that State. Ail these. acts or preteu lions of: Gmat,.Brit ..iiti. kiiibgfeentiary tothe rights of the States of petitial,Arnetiitai - and to , the manifest !ten or 'of heit stipuhttions with the -United States; as !understood by ttivito - tenonict ii:lvii beill I ' rutide OW 86ject of ne i v4i,o.ti -in lit rough .1 lie- Ath'etiaO Minister in...l4tition: I ''triitistnit' `teewitfith, instructions t,O:.hixtt,on the, sub-, jest, an cl tie_correspondence 1141 iaf!cti , - "7 , - liiin -, .and thel if llolish'lß.ticretttry foe: goreign,...U-'; faits, 11 :Whlolryou wplperceive tliattlietwo. Governittente.ditief widely and irreconeilablv:i as-to the constiitetiOtt of ~!the convention:oral Its effeut on : ,,their respective 'relation i tii Ceti- :... - tri fittnericira. -0 - - • " ` . - '-' - ' Preat . Biititiii..,s6 construia_ the convention 1, 461 -lo 1.4010 ncban tUin utid ' L an 'tier - "previon;4 ' 'PretcurP l 4icver -. the Mosquito - ',(omm, Radii? different: parts of Central: America.. , !Theme , :p etensionsi-tin to - _the'MoSgailo 'Coast, ,are fi t u t'ded itteaa ssut of ii)iiiii34l - telli.- xi'on betWeert Gri remnants t Bntain and the remnants '4 'a tribe 4 I9dians-en that eoast,•eittettei.itv . - In at iititnti when the whole countrt siasAla - 1 . cP!owi 1 lxlisession a simen It too ._ . . -cannot np I I Y- controverted that, by the pat); 4.- 1 1 .c Py of Europe and America, no potaiVe ' o, k. ,' snott, ;., bdiatus Or their predecemmx, could °weir cm Great "Britaiu .467 i f olitied riChtif, ,', • ': Foe zgs •PEMOCR AZ; Gicat Briiiiin iiiieit'itof allege the assent of Spain . ita-thel Origin' (Ober eliiiinsciin - the-lgo4- quito cease! She - .! • haii, :on - •the• cowl:Bq t , hy repeated:a4 . ,su"ciessi9 4 , treaties, miimmeea, - •aiiii; ; Felitiqtti:alied;all...: pretetisions ; oft. her own, and •tegogniiitpl theltillaodo,sovereign-.rghts of §painin.,thejtpost :fttiequi - ocallertnti. : Y,O, ;!!PPPPIPIRPI,,Iqns. o o.ticiiit solid ,fo . v.tida= , lion lo,..qte..begi . aning,;iiiid , thus, ;<rNpeeteozi..lY ,adjureil. vere...4t . k f ieceati,, - Period-. te.y..ivet) - , by -d•reat'ltritaiii agairist : the,Ceritral.-Aineriian _§,tates.tbelegi,ooll.4keT:tapipeASON:, 0,10 ,the anciept, jurisdiction', Ot Spain, in : that region.- They . .wit-e t .tiost aitplii4 only to _a - ihifineil. part of gie.,;coaSt 0f,,-Niceriigua, afterward to the . w,hol o e,pt'ilts_Atlentie - coat, and lastly. to' apart of., th ,Coast ..Of Costa Rica; and. they are now: reasSerteitto this :extent, notwith- standitig eikOifnients to the United' States. : . On 'the : eas eto . coast:of -, Nicaragua. -and : Costa •Ricri,;the.intetference of Great Britain _though exerted ..at'one- thue.•in the form_of .military occupation Of the port. of Sictritiltit del -Norte, then in the peaceful poses ion of .1 ..L., - ..,, r: - .proprhite authori;;es 6f the Central . ; American S6ites, is ii,; , ,w presented by .Iter.as I .the rightful exercise of '• a' protectorship offer the Nosquttd, tribe -of; Indians. ;--.•'•But •the establishilient at - the Eltilize„ now reaching far beyond it treaty limits into'the State of tlonduras, iii4l that of the Bar'lsl ands, appertaioing, of to the same State, areas -distinctly. Colonial 6-ovenament s -es those Of Jamaica •or • Caiiada, and therefore contrary to !the very letter as well. as the spirit of the 'convention- with the -Ignited States as it wits at •UM time of ratification, and now is, understdodlky. this Government. The interpretation which the .13ritish Gov ern men t, thus in assertion ;and. act persists in ascribing-to- the:convention,. entirely cliti . ilgei its character. i Whileitl.liolds us• to all our obligations, it. in n.grea4 ineds• relea.es Great-Britain from tho Sig irliicl constitute.! i tttl the consideration of thislGoverriktent for en teringinio 'the convention.' It. is impo:;sible, in :my judg-ment,for the -I,Tiiited. - States to at fiuiesce. in.. sueli a :construction •of the resipec 'live relations 'of the ...tWo Governments: to Central • :‘mciricit. ••, • . TO a .retwwed ca ll by this . Governinent.nl)- . on Great Britain to w ide : by and carry into 'effeet. - the stipulations.Of the, conve'ntion l'cording tOiis obtiousimphrti h wi ri k w „log frfint . colonization ,01. of the Central :ArneriCau.States of UotaluraF; Nicat . ragtia an 4 Costa Rica, the ' Britisil.Government, has 'at length . _replied affirming that,the operas-ital . of the.treav is ptoTective only,.aud- did tint require .Great Britain to abandon or contract any posses- . Aims field bv:herin Central Atuerica at the date Of its conciti,•ion. This repiy substitutes a partial .issue, lhephice of theieneral one presented by. the' United .States.,,:..The . 13ritish Goveinment pas over :the question:of the riglits Great.'lLi Lain; Jeal ,Or Mitiposetl; in'. Ce n tra I America, and!' asatitne 'that she had suclt riirlisi4 at the . date of the treiity,,and that. theise tightscomprehrlded ; the protectorship of the Musquitti - Indians, the,. otteUded jut is4ictiOn and limits of the :lialize.,:'and the colony of 'the Bay Wands, and - thereupon proceed:4 by implication to inter, ha!,ll the stipulations of thi f treaty be. merely future . in effect. Great liritaiin may still •contintie to hold the con tested portions of.. Central America. The: 'United States:caunot admit either:the infer : . ence . or the ty' inat....at the date of the treaty, Great Britain had any . pus4essions there, o:her than :the limited and peculiar establishinent at the maintain that,,if. l , She had any, 'they were surrendeted by the convent-ion: This Government, ree,ognizipg the . tion• of the. Treaty-, has of :course desired to see-it executed in, good faiiii -hy poth parties; atia.in the disC.l.lSsi on; therefore, look edtti rights, which we might assert, indepen dently of the tr t u_..conz.ii.kintiOu of 'our position stud oftither circum stances .Which create for" us relapons to' the . Cetityai. -kinetic-an Staters, different from thwie . 'of any Govertimenti of turepe. • -** - The 13ritish Gov e: union ; in its ninniCation, althoughwelllnewing the views of,the Unitect Status; - ' *tilt declares tint ii sees no r,eason' why it concilhitork spirit may net enable the two GOverittiients. to overcome all'elistacles to ar'satis.fautory adjustment of . . the . fzubjvct. Al.:At/red of-the correctness of the i-On6trtic- - 'lion of the treaty, .constatitly adhered. to by this.tiovertinteliQ and ret . 4,lved to insist 'on the rights ofthe United . slatei, yet actuated' .alsu by the fame de*Hre which is avowed by Ihe Witish .;ro!‘ -, rtimettt. tolreuifive all,catises hf get:jot:4 liiititinder,tatidiqrbetwei•ti two rut-' , thous associatealty so ninny ties or. interest and 'kiiitired,:ithigi appealed ,to me proper not to consider arnicahle solution of, the controversy hopeles!. . _ - There its, however,_ reason,. to apprehend th it, the- . ?..actital'ocen pation the: die P -med territoiies, and: the treaty th e letki p racti (VI rega ids one 'fights, this' i nternntionil.dillieuity cannot lon , * remain Undetermined wit hou t i n rot vi in sedans &timerthe friend v relations 'which , - it is the interest n4'l the duty of .both countries to efier n ridi and pregerve.it will of focal -ire sincerel gratification if future efforts shall- remit ifl the - *nceess -.Anticipated here tofore 'with' more confidence, than - the 'aspect Orthe itase permits me nnwqo entertain: , ' One -.tither- t-object. of• ilisettssion • between the United States and Britain:has grown out of the attempt whireli the ttxitZencies .of the war, *lie engaged :with - ,nogsia indtret%d.ltet to inake i :t to draw reeruita from the-United , ..• . -I t .i s the imiitional lint/ =Fettled poiiei of the United. Sta4.6'lo magi/Isis .!lupurtigii Al4ll - d u ring 1,1 4 i• wars vI kk .frum Aisne to tiute.c►e4 - among Are :poix'gr , k of , l'etfortoirig Id/ the- rlutio 5c41 . 111 , Ity;towaril the ropeoive. belirrent States, we, rosy reasuustqy expect Ahem not, to-iu ierfgre with. our !lawful enjoyments of its iietk efitOL:: NotlYith'4 ll o ink lip ilisleneekft'lich hostiliti t : our citjiens— retain - 4 . he right:to' tooth:me $ll iitoir-4110itortied pur suits ty laud or l -by *ea- at noun abroad; . , sultiectortly.lo sueblostrluta 'irk this rehi lion as Lilo /awsof war f theAliage.of 1)010te% 'or-special: ' t reat i es and it iki• Olar;s9yereign right that otwierniarY . and ill" 40 t be:,iPvAdiCbs:oitlwr belliPuitt tlietmosit-Pfi their , 'fi nk ' , the ePe!fitiwls of theirfigeot the l ivy, of troops fur i l tietr sertioo, ..Ittieg..oit croullm-brori4reisiVieitielvOi,44orshor iket,Aripeideotaur por.,, And these o4ulenht." ble rights of imiutrality; ,; . .ousi emai l ti4VEketO4l- IStAttowjU nutters* etr- A "WEEKLY 3`OMINA,L---DE4OTED TO POLiTiCS,,EEWS, LITERATtiIIE, AGRICULTURE,': - • umstatees stirrendei. .In , pursuance of ,t his policy, the. la wtrof . the .A.Tni.ted States do.not forbili their citizens to ;seat. the _ . to either .of belligerent powers, ant ,- •,-,,•,,: , : , Cles ceritiaband Of War;lor to take munitions .of % item' sobbeis on board .theiypriyate, ships ~,, foritratniportati'on ; and !altPungit;in so doing *6- inilividuat citizen -mipoi:es his property or 'neniou .to some Of thejtazardsof war, his acts do not invoke airy breielt ,of 'no:ion:dr tra nor of themselvep implicate the Grov ! , ernment: "!Thui, during the- progress of-the . present iviir in:: Europe, our citizens, have ; without 46641 -responOW,ttAherefore, sold. gunpowder and arms tolliti,l),(yers, regard less of the deqination ofitfuisg. it ticks. - Qur . . , . tnerchantmet-have been, a siill continne to:be, largely employed by iip,*t Britain And France, in} trtisporting thin)* provisions, itrul munitions of war t4 - theibrincipal;seat of military opelations, and in \ -toil - twee; home 1., their sir-Vaud- wounded! sol d iers{ 0 but such of our mercantile maarine' i *iS'not interdict-: ted 'either by the : inteinatr nal, Or by our: Mntricipal law, anti thoet'or4 . does noccom protnit our neutral relatiOnswithltussm. But our: Municipal btiv, -in aceordance •Witli the law of nations,l)eremptorily - forbids, not 'only foreigners, lintiiar own e iti ze n., to tit out Within the ,limit:; r.f.the Cnited States a vessel, tO . connnit 'hosilities against any. State with which the - Linited Suites are at peace, or toinerease the Iforce of any foreign armed vessel intended for such hostilities against a friendlY State. ! . . ~ • .' NA hatever,coacern may have been felt by either of the helligerentlpowers lest private armed cruisers, or otherlessels ,in the - service & One, might be fitted MIL in the ports of this country to'depredate_on the property of the other, :ill such fears hai:e proved to-lie ut terly groundless. Our ,itizet)s have 'been withheld front any such itiet or inuoise try gOod faith, and by respect for the law. : 1- While the laws of the L TniOn are thus Per t emptory in theirprobibitton of the equipMent or arrintment of helligenint " cruisers in our 'poke. they provi;le not less ' absolutely that tie person shall, within . tie territory- or jnris, diction of thetnited States; enlist. or enter himself,: or hireor . rtintinl . another persim to enlist or enter himself, oil to : go beyond the limits or jotisdiction of-i the Cuitell States ',vith intent to be eeliste,:i or entered,*in the service Of iiny 'foreign State, either as a -• : sol- ' diet, or as a . marine. or *Horan on board of i any - letter vessel-of-war, of marque, .or priva • •. ~ . priva teer. Anti these imaettnents are al.() n strict . i‘onformity with the law 1"of nations, witich declares, that no State has the right to raise troops for tam! or sea service in another State without its count ;, and that, Ivhether for bidden- by- the'irrunieipal 'tw or not„the very a tt em pt t o .d,i it; v.it I 100ism:la consent, is an attack on tile,natioind soveteiguty... 'Such being, -Ilse:public :rights, and 'the mu nivipal law . of the United` States, no solici ,,tride On the stibieet was entertained • :lif the POvernment, wht-n. a. - year since, - the liti rish Parliament passed an-act Ito -provide for the enlistment of fo . reiguers . iii the "military set vide of theat Britain., • N'Othing ou the face of the act, or in in:litiblit.J.. history, , indicated that tl:e British Governmi;nt proposed to at tempt United recruitment in the; did it . evergive intimation' of such intention to 1111 s Government. If Was • matter of sur , -, pare; therefore, tofind sutwelueruk• -- tti.t - ii;;;; enwviircovieiirt-4&5.-soo, !vothin th e ;U n i te ,' 1.4t:04 • .-lo proceed to ailifax, •in the British Province of Nova Scotia, and: there enlist iu the service of :Great Britain, was going.on .mciensivelv, with little or no disguise Ordi- Ha ri- legal-steps were, itionediately taken to arrest punish parties! concerned, and so put 'an end to acts Aufringing the municipal law ail , ' Ilernfratory to Our sovereignty.— Mean-cadge suitable representations_ on the subject iii•eie addressed to the British Gov erment. Thereupon it.beemne known, he the :i d. mission of the Blitish GHerinnent tself,•l hat the attempt - to'draw recruits from this coon- : -.originated with . it, or at .least had its up= proval and sanction ; it also appeared that the 'public agents engaged in' it had 4 stringent instructions" not to violate the' umnicipallaw of the United Statet. t fs.diffietilt to understand .how it should have been supposed that troops could be rais ed .Great Britain without violation. of the 'municipal. laW. The titunistakeable i:bjecit of.the kw was to prevent.evere ect, whleh, if performed, Must be either in'. vi oladon of the ro law, or in. Stndied evasion of. it • , ; : ni, tither 'alternative, the act done would ha injurious to the sovereignty of the united StateA. .1 • - Meantime, the matter acquired aditiOn a l . importance by the .retruirments in the •Utii te4.l. States no: being diseOntinued, and the dis c l o sgre of the fiet they ere prosecuted upon d . systetriatic Tian derged by official authority; that recruiting rendezvous had been oP l ened cities, and de pitS- forllle reception of recruits -established - On our trolitier ;. and the elude' business coil dneted Under the sui..ervision and by the,reg. ,ularco-:,operaiion of.l3rithdi officers, civil and some in t h t Not th .Ataerican prov ineesand.soino in .the United States.. - The ; eum.Plicity of: those officers in an unds:rtalcing. mould only. be accomplished iput4at . vs, throwing sinipiC)onoter-OOr -at titude of neutrality - , and disregarding our territorhil rights, is conclusively proved by Fhe ei•idence elicited on the trial of Stich of their l 'agnts as -have been apprehended and Convicted.- :Some of the off - ii":ers, thus iinpli ated are .of high official 'position, - and many of.them,tevond our juiidiction, s'o that le gal proceedings,..eoubl- not reach (he ;source ' , of the mischief., Ther ! ,e'consideratious, and the fapt. that_ the :cans e , ofei,rrtplaint. was not a . i4Pre casual -,uccarrvni.te, but a'..ll,4lii*iate _detiga. entered upon .whip a ftill.,lttO!ledge of our laws and ,national .'policy-,'and conducted by - responsi 7 bte publiCfunctionaries, impelled me to, pre sent the ease, to the Brith4.(7oerninekt, in erder.p) seenry.lDot Only a_ possakiun of the *rung, ht - 4.„ its : reparation, ::"Ilieuljeet *lift .uute* di usaiun, the result Of. *W e b, will be catmm~uicBtod tu.}ou'iii 4140 Tepe4 the, reeemmendatien." subs 'tied to • the . last..Oppgress, that: , ..i!roviiii)n . tirade,{ ;ferthe;apisiintment. of a - cotninissinner, .nonnPetion. wick Great Aritain,.to survey. and estaljlt~h the botindari,line;:whiA divides the Territory iar,.Waishington from Llme eUntignous ~Bijtj.sh: p ciss i0n.... reason.PY 4 she-extent. an 4 :there;lo . oLheeal_itnminent.,4iligir4 . §6lllioon, • tiei-00,4 .11 , 1) * : i Of 01 *:: 4 4, b.4 ,1 : 4 4, 1 4 1 004,..-.* l o.P.g.,t l mr„ gut tie e tn . Alit. Visite:: The. Itlntrat, •citusqueljanlta Vrititta, Cljursitn Rloruiltg, '4'll.lla , . prospect of a Speedy arrangement has Con tributed hitherto to induce on both hides forbearance to assort by- 'force what each elaims.as right...contitmanCe fof delay; on the . part 'of the two Governments f iat iu the matter will increase the &angel% and dif fieulties Of-the controversy. Mistinderitandimr to - exists as to th - elextent,- character and -value of the pos:%ssory rights of, the lludsoi's Bay Company and the,pro- Tertrof the • ?uget's. Sound Agricultural Compatly;_,reserved iu our ..treaty with'.oreat Britain relative:to.the Territory of - Ore;gon. haVe reason t 4 b'eliere that a c e ssion or the rights of both:!icompanies to the 'United States, which . wnitld be the readiest means . of tertninating 'itll .questions, can be 'obtained on reasonable terms; and, with a, • view to this end, I present the subject to the atten tion of Congress. The Ct;lony of Newfoutulland, - having etiacted the laws required by the treaty of the sth of June, 1854, is now placed on ;the same footing, In respect to commercial; in tercourse with the United States, as the oth er North 'American provinces. The commission which that treaty contem plated, for de - tertninitnj the rights of . fishe'ry in rivers and mouths of rivers on the coasts of the Tjuito 'States mil the British NOrth American provirk, has beeti organized and -has cotnenced its labors ; to complete there is needed further appropriations foi.,;he service of another season. . . The statements mace in my last atinual niessage, respecting the anticipate4.l - receipts ,and expendituitii of the treasury, have been substatitiailv verified., , it appears frOm the report of the.Seeretaty of the Treasury, that the, receipts: during -the last fiscal year ending June 30 ; 1855, from all sources, were 865,003,930 ;and that the public - expenditures fir the satire period, ex clusive of payinents.- on . account' of the public debt, amounted to 8.56,065,303. lluriti the s a me p el i t l . tki e payments made. irt retlernp t ion of 'the public: debt, including interest and pr, nitim. attoilinted 14)49, 844,528. - 1 • The balance in the Treasury at the begin ning of the present fiscal Year,"July, 1, 1855. wlis 818,931,976 ; the receipts for. the first (loter, and the 'estimated teeeipts for the re ef:lining-. yearters, a mount, together, - to 67, - 918.734 ;; tires irtfiirdrng in all, aS, the available resources of,the current .fiscal ear the sum of 8.780,8)6,710. ' . • A If to the : actual expenditure of the quarter of the current liseal year be • add the probable expenditures fo.• the retiminin, llnee quarters, as estimated - by the Secre(ary of the 4Treasury, the smil total will, be 2::16,84 . 6.thetebv learipg, an estimated halance in the Treasury on hily -1,1856, of ."515,6.23, the above estimated expenditure of the present fiscal year are included €:3,000,0001-6 meet the last installinent of the *10,000,Q00 provided for in. the late treats - uidt Mexico; t0ut..;7,7:10, - 000 appropriated on account: of the debt. due . to Texas;.whiel: t sinus nialw , an aggieLtale amount - of *10,750,000, and reduce the expenditures,' actual or estittiak; . for ordinary opjezts of the year, o the 'gittn' of *40,476,000. , , • • The amount of the public debt at the com mence of the present fiscal year wai *40,583, 631.; A nd,dop.:64-4,l•CitifritriThie- -of - !- Tll -, merint-rit the viltele (Mtt cif the Fed,- 'eral . Goverinnent remaining at this time is . less than *46,000,000. The remnant of certain other. Government stoAs,amounting tv *243,ooo,.referred to in my last - NfeKmige as outstanding, has since been paid. t lam fully Persuaded that if: would be dif ticA to devise a system superior to that by i which the fiscal busine ‘ ss of the government lis . now conducted. • Notwithstanding the great number of public. arr o enta of collection i and - disbarsement, :it is believed that the f - elieeks and guards ' provided, including the Itequirements a monthly returns,. render'it l scarcely p•)ssible for any considerable fraud on the part of those agents, or neglect invoking inizard of serious public loss, to escape detec- Ltion. I tenew, however+ the recommendation iher'etofore made by me, of the enactment Of a 11 law declaring it felony on the part:Of public officers tOnsert false entries in • their 'books of record or account,or to make false returns, and also requiring them„on the termination , ! - y of tutur.servfee, to deliver to their -successors I all looks: records, and other oltjeetsof a 'pub s i ;L: nature in their custody.. ' • -Derive.:! asour Public revenue is, in -Chief [pat t, um duties on imports', i,V . 4 magnitude-af fords gratifingevOcnce of Cthe ptospetity, not only 'of our coatmerce,lbut of the! other tea interest- upon which that depends. I The principle that all moneVs not requited fur the current: expense 4 of. the government should -remain for active employment in the hands of the people, and the cotcpicuous . fact that the annual revenue from all sources ex ceeds,bv manyitillitins of dollats, thetmuunt needed . for a prudent and economical - admin istration of public ntftirsotaunot tail to seg.. ge!,t the prunriety,Of an early revision and re- 1 duction of the tariff of duties on - importa. it • is now so generally' conceded that -the .pur- • pose of revenue al u bci can justify, the imposi tion of duties on ittiports, that, in re-adjust ing the iMpost tabli..-s and • sehedules i WhiCh unquestionably requires. essential .tuotlifica tions, a departure from the principles of- the, present tariff is not:Anticipated. • The army duritit4the pait year has, been actively engaged in defending the Indian frontier, the state of the service, permitting.bnt. few and iquall• garrisons in- our ' pernfanent . forfifk;ations. The additional regiments au thorized -at the last session of Congress have been recruited and organized, .aud a - large potion of the troops have altendy been seat to the - field. 'All the duties: which devolve r on the military: estsblishment have beep sat isfactorily petiornted, and-the dangers and Lprivatious incident , the ehareeteriof the service required of our troopS bairn f 014,104, additional evidence of their.; - cotrage4al,and. i vapacity .to meet any revaisitiotywhiei f tlielii couutry,may muke.upon them...• For4he de- titilkof the military,oparations,.. the dist tibu,.i don of the troops, and = additional .piovisions; required forthe military service, refer ; to the report of the I*retary, of NO -and ..the accompanying dectimeeN.. • • Experience gathered .0.6J1t :hate transpired-since. iny..N4 annual pxsilig* :has but served. to i *oefirsn '44 thetk= texpressed i of..the, propriety:4:- making _'pro • VigOii-br.a. rptirod - lio; •19r:d4abied,ettleern and for aoinpensation to the officers retained vn the list:folt #4oo4letyi•-•,411 . 44 , - *et* reecissuiOded - 04 411 Ver. 7 4.4 4 31 00 1'. °997. tirucd with4ttiiodificati cirdumstzinc*ka . Ca given alditional The. recoulintendations eretofore - made-,fur a p art ial reortinixation 6-the..arnifare- also renewed.. The thorough linnetitary educir don given to; those* office . , Who ; cointnetice . their service ivith the'grai.ii:ereadet;- qualiL ties theni i tan considerah e.exteatto perform, the duties citlevery arm. .4? :: tho.. service ; -but to .give. the highest effieie e . yr to arti fiery re quires the pr4ctice•end sp (pal at , tfily of many years-; and it : is .not, ther we; helie'vea .to*:lio advisable to . maintain,` in lime Or:peace, - a larger force cif that'arni tl i air-ean , • •lm-.l . lStually employed in She -duties apperuthiing49„tho z , eriee of - fielil 7 a tilt Siege . a i rti I lery. The, d utiee of - the staff* in all its various branclieS, berOne to the movet4ents - of troooi,and the effitiebr-c of an army ill the &Ail; WoUld imitteriallt4-de pend . upon t tie obit' ty vii tlli .wlii eh those • d ii ties are dischinged. It isinot; as in the case' ofthe artilletly, is Spekiiitit, but . requires; al so, an intitnitte kndwiedgti-of- the duties- . of an Officer Of the line, and it L not doubted .1 • that, to coinricte the etincrition of am of fi cer for . either that line or the general - stati,.it is desirable that lie Shall lialle, served in . both. - With this viw, it Was -recotnineuded ..On a former Deco, ion, that the duties of the- -sta ff should be miinly performed hi-details . from. the.line ; an ' , with conviction Of the advan tages which . youli.t.result front such a c h ange. it is again ii i esented fur the cOnsideintion of COngress. 1 The' report-la:the Seerei herewith sub itted;exhiti! alterations o 'thepast yeai present, cord ;ion.,of the se suggestions of further le! ; your lateral iis invited. , ' The coast uction of thelsix ste a m a ga tes, . ; steanangate, for which ap ,ropriations were Made by the lastemigre. • has 'peoceed'ed M the most -sat isfactory ma • ner,and wit i such expedition as to wurran the I.)e.lief that they _ will be ready'for ser _ice_earlv_ in he Coming. spring:- Important a. this adtlitiot to our 'naval force is,•it stilYrenittinsinadequ to to the contin gent exigent! es of the protectiOn of the extea sive sea enits and vast co, ninercial interest of the Unite 'States.— In 'view of this \fact, wledged.wistioin of tho.pol iey of a gr a nal, and . systematic-increase of the navy, an appropri dipis j recuinmended 'for the coas t uction. 'of . s it - steam '-sloops-.of wa r. In regard o the steps t of the ;tot of Congrttss• to oienty of navy ; it is n to :qt). more Batt to expr rence in the .I.,:7.ervations EIZEMII=tEI • It' willelx.treeiyet - 4 lr Po'stm i aster . etteral, that of the- depztr,utent for the •59,0P8,342,- nd the gro. 136,; inakin. ex . e.es'; of - ro•Alipts Of :1;"., tranguitatioti, durit 74,952:gt thaU . Much Of the heavy ex :end *Treasury is Ins .strhjeoted `1 II an I)ty of pi , . . • .niails either '..lh la ....,‘oc_t., ' - •E :o:e.4,.with tb h. Eciioni ;!,c be ocean st ~ 3, ie Postmas 6 e I 1 ' %VS .the . c 1 1 to the large veYed by th to tro.postag postage ca • ittr., Mid railroads a►l( .' zetior»oft~ subject der,-ei of the:SAN:set , otir a ttetitiOn contains, as f . the siihieetsl The repor will eniYaere suggegions• itnportauce The aggrLgate amount during ,the 1 tst reze-til yeitr . .. tari. script o rand warran grants or r ads, and 'elec liy•Statl .s, ii` 24,557,409; juirtionso! . Was 15,729,5 in receipts t '.e stun or 81 same poilod,ot, tittle,-8,7' been survey .d ',__ but; in co quantity ah - .ady sattient lion:a tract: have been hr. The pectiOur relation ofi ernment to tjte District . 41 it proper toleomme,nd to its - inaterial,,but also ifs in chiding Cdn l atiO'n, More e• parts of the is.trilq. ontsid 1 ) • Washingtet atul Geortreto . The comnpissiem;:rs typo codify_the hits of the _ Dil l i such progreis in the :per task; as to ii sure it-4 compl 'prescribed by the 'act of 0 • ItiformatiOn has recent .that thepeaite of the: 54.!:, tie ritories of Ofegon rind Wa bed bybostilities on thelt. with indications - of l eiten" of a hostile-lharacter autot quarter, the anore.seriods i feet by reasin of ,the and interests e, isting , in' lilt 'Whi , dl your • t tendert has a ciallv invited. Eiteient n i taken, which, it is believed and afford protection to oaf In the Territory of Katt acts, prejuilii;ial to good • none have - o :purred 'under I justify the it terpoition of t' tire. - That ,Could only be tion to .fetlerellaw, or.of. or to territoriall law, asstiutingi insurrection which, .if itj would ,be my tlutyltritinpli mippress. ' I , elierish the It( the occurrence Of.any - suet will be -prevented 'hOhe people.of the Territorv;wh law, posselsing the,,,right own dotoestic inAitUtions, - deporting theinseVes itette .exerm AO of that .right,'and , in lite enjoyment ofitii, Wi ott.,the part .of :the . citizet States— ' . The sontldru tioundiiry torytto never - been'SutiW The rapiclry-exteinlitigqe*l , &on, and ;the fact : that_th tweep T0,pe: 11 4149,14 ! 3 )4 1 ' awl New meSie.o, is cosi suggest 114 `ira~abiity T' questions'or -juritldiotion; Anse. For these ;suit , 4- commewl,6o *0409.t. to P 14 14- 1 1 ) 44 otke ffi the isaittierViit botind taVieiCillietbk •"I 10, 1050. . • n, mceept so tar as to 'some -of thin aryl of the Navy; , t.s in fall the naval , together with the" ant 4 it make: aisii,iti,- 0 6 - 00 which. kezr in extictition proinot4i the ttffi nneps.art lor n u n !euttre concur ;n Unit siitTect' pre- his ;report. • the report q - ".tiie,l re I af•5t:13.74.1 year was H $7,3-!2,' expentlituro over nt) (hat the eos.t.of .; Cr ' veatwas I " . pik!v1(111; 3'k-nr 4 1111 e 5 t‘t I%bicli the . li to be ascribed inted matter con franked; or. liable. very :iv. - rates of t el)arged on let or amers. rfie .General Lhe iderntion-,of Con- rc :of - the Ititerior its ivell for •11,.4e1. or thelettfregt•lihd to which thy' re fpnblic. land sold iocated with taken tip tinder test as swamp lands ores, of which the 4, : acres yielding ,485,380, Iu the The patrl'otic and just men who. participl 7 -ted•in that act were infinenced br tn.rtitesfar: abOve alt seetional jealousies. It was in truth the great by.completittg for tra the possesiiop 'r t' vtilley- of the Mississippi; with commercial ace* to•t (;elf of Co, imparted Unity strength to the.whole, confederation,.and attached together by irn. dissoluble ties the . Eitst and .the Nytt, as well As the North-arld'the . Sonth. - As' tolF/oridit i .that 1119' . .. but the transfer by Spain to 'the . United States of :territory:: .on the east - side - or the .river: iu ek, 'change fOr large territory, which the United States trenferred to 'SPnin'on the we.it'aide of-that river; as - the entire diplomiathi'hiAtiry of the transaction serves lo demonstrate.— Mereover, it was an Acquisition dent:laded, by. the commercial interestsandthe security,.nf. the • whole - Union.. .• • • ,- • . 3,84 acres' 'have osideration. of . the initty, tit) - mill-- melt! into market. ' the yeneral :,,ror ‘polairihia, rentlem, 'our care not oclv oral,. hherests, hi .-pecially in thof , c 1 r of the cities of iwn:' ... .. - fluted to. revise and have maile . . •fOrniaitee . of their Lotion` in the time • . . . , . . In the inetfutitrie the people 61- 1 , the Uttitial Stales had grown up to .ft propei Conkio:lits ne.ii; of their_strength, tind . in," . a brief aintest with France ntid .in ,a second 'serious war , with Gre.at Britain,. they hart shaken off. an L which remained 6f.utitlue rei•ereiteo fur En: rope,. and .ernerged -treat the atniophere i;;Ii . . t ho.e trans-Atlantic influences wlach surroun ded the *infant republic,' and hadaliegun to turn tl - tir,att6ntion- . lci•the full-and spoon:Mk= , ie development of the, iuternal : resonrces. - lA, . the Union;_ . - . •,' . .. - 7 ', . ... Attiong'the evtteac'tmt conlioi•eisiei'kif dna. • period' the !mist conspitMott4ilis:the'questo - r,`• •of rbgulation by Congress of thiisticial eondi:' Lion of the futute slittes..to be`'foutided in the territory of Lottsiatnt.,.. -,.,.., ~,, ),, , , . . -- ... • I'6 . ooin:ince, tier the .gorritment - of "the territory f tuirt liii;i2,sf - of this • t%4l'' Ohte had' con; . tai nt . 'd a' provis.ion, - - , iVhi'ellt prohibited • the . tise— of ingiti4tyrcint'seniic&due in al4. other Old,. 'of the :..14tnted r S . tait l 3.: .SU USW le 11 II Y to, the; adolition of the constitution,. thia.,proo,sion. ceased to remai I: aS . A 14,1 V ,;;I . ol' , i is:operation 1I welt was a bsultktply sypersed4by thii.eOn §titatioii. : But. the ..yeeolieethind -s,ifftie,faet exeited . the ,zeal . of. sop itzl; propagandit4 1,, t.., some sections' of the Confeileratton ; .. - '; and,wiiiii: *second State, thatUf Miistittil,.:7,`Catitelikbitt' • firmed ia,itAte7teirifory..ilg LoilisiaZia;-piiipoSii.': Alen: w,a4., madfit -- t9:'.. , eztelitt i to.,the . l4tterMititto-,- yy tfieri!s4ipticm -, ,E),FiepO!y.i'aPiliF*-*o*, couistry.slitoa. between ' ' thilzr;rttrtAilt '.Plito ' itnd Slisi•is.4pl: - .. - ;:' '- -. T '''..'''' . '.'f.- it'''''''P'''t..s 4 ' f "ti. •4' ill iipostittiii-. ...• l..mixit.rptestwitab . 0.. 5 an._ . .11 : - . . 9 __ ._ _ 1 in all Iti--eoptituttonst-PrelationOtoyeaw. ~ 14 11 ,S c!egive4Om ntinttilen-ore/trest l / 2 . ,Wi11t, :.f ! criTi4liliallttinixtitiogi,tglitieeillti-*iie . thit ' 4iii4i - kikrtktiii. ji.e•::010. ~.tifa"Ved: - 4noe/gqi*: 'l4 4iiks Altioiiiiittl:;leMilsi - Met*'i 'ty lautti!' isin'Stiittsiiii - si*ti :'likatt.o . iifoi:Of - P . : *TWO': theiVnionjaakiali . 4-tig4 l #:l:tiitt . Illai4,)sliAtfi - Argit.944 4 inalit i: ,- 4 1A - 1 4,. '..-:.' pilaf:sip of.jo.4iptorfig tr o ~.et.,,,g4f4.1 tie' d:bv!14,4,6 4 ,44 - 091u -.. „-:11 - :iiiii0oekt!`:-.77-br: Weil. -4 . - 4titsiiiitil liiPf'C i. itittt :- - ' 'at !SO*: -.• .`:-• - , .., - - . --, . -,-. '- -. ..- - ..z-f - t. , „._,,L,;...,---. I) ,, Tegi :been ' , ieeeived; nents in the. Ter: . hingten ,distil rt of The l ive !comsinatiOns the tribes in that '7 thekr pessi ale ef .tertnitte,l foreign I se ; Territories; to. K m -Ay beets espe eris6res hive-been. isitl restore.rfuiet eltizeus. there haye,b . eeti t . rder, l ut !iai yet ei u &OS to he federal Exeeit 'll e . lise of obsOue•.u~ized resist tuc e.' • • couraeter:of: 4110,0h1 occur , , - it • tq'Oyereothe' pe,•:,howerer, • that' •evelit nd sense of.: AR i!.s pygno;t: o determine.t heir ire entitled , - while the free mis!. -.be:protected . bout inteedrenuo of-lhe amp, kOe*of ' • f ;## I.§t4 t ,raCg l Ar : up4isjo iv'ioevietitly ,coussideratibilit /. *,4,114Y . fitt*OPPl. IMpflitamstnite: *A. 4, ; 7fitriltst MUM ~ .r ~ a „,.'” ... , ' ed '`d'' ' 2 '' - It . 'enjOinecit'hi the ceii exeetit „an - swan y , . . ,• ~,, ~ ~. . L. ,: stit u lion to give information - .14 - COngrittit on qui•gti4pf::4l - 4 1 3 5 Cirif4illir:Ac,.:Pf4Ole neglect of duty 0., rn . T., I:iart,:to i . l pam c.yp;: ! 4 `Subject like - this, Aia,'"heyitia'§llltitinicitt, the present time,' vital-cOncern l.. § Jitdivid l nf •ani 4 pnbhciiinirr7 . 7 :,, ;., It lai . een - a ithtiq - at.Aiii it regret"to see titatei;''ConsPititins i&•"tiliir ieivroi : iii . . founding-thistepUblici*d-, equally Sharing_ its .44antages„disregartt l tbetr.oOmitiNtiottal obligations to' it. Altho.ngb ...c . tniscious. of their inftbility- to heal adthitted . antfpalpable • social evils oltheirOwlTAiirr iiiia are com- pletely,within their. jurisdiction,,they, engage in the si&enSi've'aint. hopeless Undertaking ,of refornt hig . - the doniestic InStittition - s" of Other States-wholly beyond- their control anti an thority„, ...lit,thovain purstii tofend*, hy:thetti; entirely unattainable, ..cnd which they Allay . not legally attempt to ~compass, they 'peril the very existence of theiConstitutien; and : all the countless benefits . which it has .confbrred.. While the .people of;t6 southern 'States con-, tine:their attention 'to - their own:*afihiri,' not . : presuming Officithisly 'to inter medd le . with the social institutions ofthe.northern-States,loor intuit of the inhabitants iof the tatter, are pep , . nianently organized in association* to inflict injury on the form e kby, Wrongful: tints which would be cause of war.. 1 Mi . betwOen : foreign power:!, quid only, fail to be such in our sys.-. ton, hi... Cause perpetrated : tinder,: scorer - Of the; Union.' ''• . • - - '' • - • • '• . 1. /ait , l%Qtile . fo present this subject-as truth and ',the-occasion.: require,, Without , noticing the reiterated, but groundless allegatiou, that, the &Mil, has persistently asserted claims;and. obtained advantages in the ~ prae t tiCal:thinii istratiou: - Of the' tretieral;•governthent„:to the: prejnoice of .the. North, and . in which.thelat-: ter acquiesced; .That- is the States.whildi ,e 1;, then Jaotnotti ortoleratc t.titttc4intifig-ti.fiti of persons and of,property s in ethr;Sittites,...:P:h disgttiSelbeir• thin - iniu;:iiee•• pretentf - :•ni::-; nitt , mine, and constantly aver, that.lthey, whose : cumti to tional- rights-are f • thus sYStettilticnllv.- as-.!:ailed,,are• themselves the: aggreorS.-,.:At. the present time, this imputed aggres.-sirMtdst-- ing, as it doe's, only 'irk the vague declatnato-',-, rt- c!tames Of political .a.ittitors; . resolves' 4.,.. into .. . - ".• self -anisapßieltensto I._'or' misinterpreta tion, orthe principles an ' '-'' 's - '• : poliii : - cal organization of the it' ;IR - I ritorieS . t.l. the United State:. • - ' . - •• -;- ... -_ - What:is thevoice ofhis or t i . len:•the-' ordanance, which. nroride,Ll fur" the :govern- ment of the territory north west 'Of the river . Ohio, • and for its eventual sub divisionlitte new „States, was adopted in' the 'Congress' of the confedcration, .it is not to be. : suppOsed that the vestiutr-of future relatit'e Power,: or het ween the ;St'ates. w Itich 'retained, -and those a biolt did . i . tot. • retain, a'. numerous co'tored popu!- , tion, escaped a , ,tiec i or failed to tie consider&i, And yet the , coneession of that . vast Li..o . iZury to tbe..ioterestsand Opinions, - of the :northern States,„a .territoryt. now 11.1:4 seat t .-- f ftveattiong, .tinao . *iitilietritet of th Liii inn, a as, in gi.ent: - ni!itsil re, ilio 'a..,t.' of the State of•Yir•ginia•and - of the South. . • iS• .Wite n: Louisiana =souls' actin ',red !by th e U tti: ted . States, it .was ark ni , Anisitimi : not.tesS; to the North than tothe.S:,,,nth ; for . m w hile-1,0%n5 ; important. to. the country at the on tli of, the river NI is`sl SA ppi ' t ii-. becoio e•'l.h; 'etti pirl inn of the country- atiore' -if;T-io• 'rils6'. 2 it :Sw4s..:.*E.iiS . inot4important •to_theiwliolia.Vpio4v,...to issue that -ersi illl la...f.:Auut.stialowinAria-i:olo._ne 4;":"Ififi ) i::- _ ince ; by reason of its imperfect settlement, waS unduly - regartb.l As on the qulf of 11exi ea, yet, in • -faio,- it - tendad to the opposite. boundaries 'of the United - States, -With fat greater bread tb above than -beloW, and - -waS ins territory, as in everything eNe, equally at least an nettession to the northern State:; It is•niete deltisitM and Prejudice, ' therefurei.l6 speak of Lonisittna.as•aequisitienja the've.e.:' ial interest of the South. • . ..-• ~ - ',' ..- ~ EI=MI ,:' i..:,,4:i-,...:: OBINEENSI ." 1 1 0 1 00 •.- irofeolicide, 4 l4 wine At+ , , tt,d--.exec , , , densAtind.' Tfaiing„ . 'ttyiett ,itlfoNik t ..„:,.. t co'rloi ef i leg i Staiiot4' IS: ..P 44 `-ita4.#o:-..nr „' _„,: statuteheok, _s.andiner °peal to t rOP4,e ..... - l ‘a.Y.4.tlier aaKir..sl 6 ,uetfol oolleAtiii ll 444* - - i'lNet tio'. Pr,Olionneell :fiull - -44±410#7 - ' the eoniis Othi.*.A44: Rt.Oessi.*".:lo 4 #6lol4. - 4 , - eite'ae,Viti C'Ofitrer die rights - of - o - ,80404v ' whizal , hlight diefo,al4 r - 1* ergeet ' ..eitt.47 2 ,, $ Any part of itio-brienat #rtita-7-Orr-VOWOPI-1 In 4 1 . 1 Ottl;.if a'Prakglessfaa t t tal P re 'i l t i f ' " .2. "' - in ' aavab .s , Lal'Ph Ykre.,fat s liPg rt ttlk't.tq ivla 4 pvrtio*OT t l / 4911 hitin-AO:theie ,J, 59,t* (1 , 6 1ka7, - able r ' ''' '''' ''' "rA 4 ' '' 4 ' : 4 ,?: This tentrotitiray 'Pased anetYlitith tlia,et`Wf'-'','-' , " casion; noihing'survi?ing it Save'thf`r,„ : „ll,lltr, , ;e:_ letter of the statute: ,k : ,, :-`,l- 7 ,_ - 7".„ Ilat, long afterwards, ,WhOi`;:tir tutpl:b t ed accession of Ili rePufilie4',ll,:exste;lties'. United States were to lake, their bit itetyY i`' l " territorial greatness, a' siinilar eontiiigqm& occrirred;and became then*asfOri fe*yttittt "- 'unfixed attempts to intimate in the'dotnii - - tic affairs ot otte section ctQlhe Union, in de 7 ; fiauce of their: 'rights asSlVas,afid'i'or Ili* stipulatiens or the constituno,n.: Theic sitt- - tempts assumed a practical diroction,,in WO' shape of persevering endeavors' by souxiet the - reprelentatiyeA in halt houses Of am- grins to deprive the' southern Stites of the supposed benetit.of the provisions of the act authorizing-the Organization of , the - State et ,- Mi.sonri. ' `• - '-. But, the good sense of the Peepik- find def.; 7 . vital force of the constitution, triumih'ea - tiver`..- --- sectional `prejudice, and the politi 1 errarst-_, , " of the clay, and the State, of Texas returaik` - to the rni44 'ash° was, with - Sociathistitti -- -. tiont"whicit herpeople haa chosen ter thents- selees. and`'svith express, agreement,:bi the- re-annexing act, that she shoujd 'be susopti-i' hierof subdivision into a plurality of'. States.. I" Whitever advantage the - interests' of - thar , ,„ Southern Stites; as such, - gained by this, were - far inferior in results, ast i they unforded.:. in the progress of time, to dense .wluch sprang: from previous concessions made by`the South.: To every thoughtful of the,tinien-=:-* to the true lovers of their :country—UP a 1 who longed arid labored for the full StioOess , of this great experimenrOt republican initi- 1 tutionq,—it was cause of gratulation' that) such an opportunity had occurred to ilins: tiate our advancing power on `thli contiii4r;,,,. - and to furbish to the . wOila'addrtiOOOE - inst4, anise of the streugth'and`siability'oftWeini".;' stitution - .. • Who would wish" to seedrtiridw! ; still a European polony I Who would tit` " - joke to hail Texas as -a lone star, instead of' one-'in' the galaiy of States f_, Who -does - not r. appreei s ate the incalculable benefits of the*- `'` `. quisrtion 'of ,Lcitiisiaim t` . ` And Yet narrow ``',,_ - views and sectional purposes ':would' irreil. bly have exeladed - them all from the titdetni'..; .Iforanother struggle on the same poine-, 'enqtuiti; when tihr Vittotioui armies returnede front Idexico;and it devolved on Congress;; : ?revide foil the - te:rritOries .acriuhed by - tluit!, treaty of GuadidUpe Ilidalgo. The'great re:-.,:" (.theirs of the subject hadhow beenme.diki . tinct and clear to the pet'oePtiolt .6 r' ilie4illt 4 ”. '; ' lie'mind; whiehrappinelated the evili‘oft see: ' • fioniii coofroker4y _upon the iiins r tioh'oriiiti' •Ildmission of new Stato. ` Itr 4611 .0ofit#&itt = '' - ' ten% solicitudfr‘pereaded 'll4- natiern;" f-Attfl. - ,_ the patriotic, impulses of •thh. ` pettethiOniattiz - guided br the,admoulicil `ltdiiiee' of il& - -ye;i: r i,, incr./. Nts-c4autit6V4We'•"siii:serid-16 4 CAr,W - cliilletittres ordie incarrioratiote2W 11 7 01 , 4r,val pire into the Union. In the counseisli Cm- - , cress there was. manifested extreme atitagoe.:C uisnitif - cpiaida and action'between some repl:-: resentativei who sought by:the , abusive -and- ' uncost' nt'mea , etupl y ent- rthe legislative - powers or theOvernment"ivinterfereew tha condition of the inchoate ~'States,, and to int- ' pose their ofin social theories nponisther fader; and maintained the Selfoonstitutilig rights or the Stateo , litirtlth, the things`attempted' , was, in form -alonei action 'of the general - goy- , - ernment, while in reality it was the endeavor;„- bv aim% `of ~ l egislative, _power, 'ttt - - force iter ideas .:of internal policy entertained` lip' Mi 0-- . vOr States upon alliedv independent '-iStates,:- Oleo more the constitution and '= the Uniotv , l triumphed signally. The 'new Territories=.` wore organized without restrictions on 016'4 disputed point, and 'Were, thus left to judge in-_-, that pariettlarefor themselves ; and the sen* of constitutional faith proved vigorous eno. oughln Congress nob onliolo accomplish thilV 3 prnnary object, but "also the incidental andL, hardly- less=mportant one of "so• amendiag -- the provisions of the statute for the extradt-- ' tion of fugitives from serviq; as to plaeit-that •'` public duty' under the safeguard 0f. , .: the gen"; : erai government, and thus relieve iefrom ob-:. stacks ritisedly by the legislation of some - or- the States. Vain declaniation regarding the Fattirtsloise of law for the extradition of - fagitives- ,L service, with occasional .episedeis of 'fiantio efr.'" fort te obstruct- their execution:lT ylet - and' murder, continued, fora;brief time,"' to sigi--- tate certain - But- the trueprineir pk, of leaving each State and Territery leg , . • ulate its own lairs of labor iccordintofi . its-- - oivn sense of right` and expediency, - -lrdie-- Attired filet hold of' the , : publio jUdgingntit6;- : •- such a degree ? that, by common conOntOto iiati•obt•eived Inihe Organization of '3lnit - 17er-i titkity. of -Washington, . When; more rrieently; it 'liieesinift . -vognisike'.: to organize the Tei ritil`rts :ttlietinaskti lOU tts i iiintnini, anti legitimate, if nat the ineviiablei,' , i.onsetinenee events and legislationethatthe lame great, and sound, p nnilftl4 whielitatral*wly been applied Nevrf.ltexicei.thotihkba. applied terihem Itillt- - thorithoifid - -,stand • t exemp from titairestrletions,-proposed net; rergilte'Llo,tho State = of:iissourc,. , sk t . These 'restrict:tone vttererlhe'estimation of, many thoakhifat inen, isull from , the , ninb t unstatheetsed the caustitutioa, - ecav; - „i? teary to the treaty . stiptihstiona for the ttf Louibiana, eod-reeoasiatcut with the equal 'l o tlieso-,80494. 'hey, had tee It'stripped - 'of Penija 6 "itirts l ia*tiret Weil ( AndEreit repaEthroogiveteltifidlitOri - 4tifietir liients: — Vh!l had beeiVimtegiallrrittrogitki: t 0 d..4. - thelegisifitiooictoociig thait'Nftlettalitid ifaeflrittailletnt4o4 itetsike - 1 iiaie Siete - 4%4°0 , 4, igreO,Vbyilile-stelf::4 9 110 4-4 6 tlielVetitt4 fiate‘akopistir last.Ofingresstwn,a manly and beanie*, 1 , 4 1 "SPabicotid 4ll oo4 , - 6 : 4 -4-itair 4.ooW;'*alt- OA* iltithucter*** ribtfautt -- ! ote-beeltif an sot, Moe& andthP inesOrti - of rsilettirti**-4t 'cons ms_ 10147."1440,4110114,: =MEI MEE ~~~: MEM
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