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, isaramnairrs -,,' car: ! I -r--o, ometeeiled portions or 111 -1 net's ' 1 4.lnerices. ' thelinited Stun. The complicity of those
ta t .i . The U ted *tea canton adieu either the hi. , offieent in en eindertaking which could only
sw.ne etwitene of ii . :ennie and ,'t ke fi l m :
i fe h re ottl ece at o t r be t p'reefieest ;11 ,7 b eteedilveletty fief acoempliehed by defying our lawn, throw.
reef the emits!. ()tent fttain tag enepieion over our attitude of neutralit y,
of ThapetantsNitet ~
. ; had a n press4o/096 (befit., oili e r I,ban All. i! t en e • . ei ci n i t i l , eli ti tetge th n , fing our territorial rights. is cog-
• The coestitation of the Unit 8 tee ro-, ited and +tater esteld hineet at file 110 vett by the evidence elicited on
irides that Congress shell Vont le nee Ily, red meinteinehat e if el hitdl,anye they , • Iwerekthe . ili n al •S hf r Mich of their agent,' as have leer,
1
on the fleet Mender of Dee-Whin. dit '.
bitihe cone lime „„, ' . ',',„,
..e. r ee•PrehendeeLertii.convicted, S ome , . 1t the offi• - • !WAIL
` been llama for the Preeident to mike no coin. Thiseinvernment, recognizing the obl igations cers thee Implicated ere of high official peed- =With Spain peaceful relations are still main.
111111111141.11rgapnblicehometee to the Senate I of the truly, hnp, of
, .
course. desired ,Ito see it_ dun. and many of them beyond our juriadio- tamed, and some progress has been made --in
stal Sum of Ittepreeentatives until advised of executed in good faith by both parties anti in tit - - thatlegal proceedings could not reach , securing the redress of wrongs complained 'of '
s their reashoilfetieriiiiiere!ii.si Lefuivi defamed iihe discussion.therefore, hem not looked to rights the esuurceo
of the
to this weep until the close of the fi r st month I which we might aeeeri independently of the These eonsiderations. and the fact that the by this Fre e z e: met e Spain has not only dime
vowed and disapproved the conduct thi'of.
or the OR"• 4 "St tkietitiviations orduty will 1 treaty, in consideration of tete geographical pa- . es „„ o r,,
no penult the 'linger jo pave nos the discharge 1 melon and of other. cirettinstAllCt.M. which create mplaint was rota mere tetanal occur- fitters who ill sly seized sod detained the
ranee. but oxieliherote desigp,erieeng s .epop p o rter Black Warrior at Havana,' hut hits
of the obligatiim en)olnedib the clailstitution • r
• .or us relations to toe Central Anieti o L o sieies •
i o nt roe un the Presi t il it t i nt in -• it en
ti. giv l e lv to un t i h tm e
. t e nire .r... s/ Ea diff ro et; el ne
, f , rnat . n0,e.e.,,,01,...eny......gii,..vertueLe,te,...0!... po lci l t i h cy ft , ' l li n i d tija eo w i t id n etel f i n ty ir T i e n :pu n t?' h d le P in e: 114 110 .!a cetts loaa Paid the 4i reb lin yttideted ianne4: 9o th an ti ll eid e st alt o l t i th fcit e
ememend to their cutisidetatinn such meamures t ;
1 The Beiti le.Gey erne t ; i la t coen ,.. n . 'Cuilen6l , l7l.4:l4rOillettlfiliTtr rikit4lrttfirietior ^United Statee,, , ..-_,- .--,,....... ~„,,,, .., „
..,
sat he shalijudge rieee.es, • y end e koedient," ; h i„ t e r heii t i e ti 4 e i l x . e i t e l i g e i l ep [AI „h ce gse t e e to thetßritish.gevernment, to order to secure'. . In COntlegutp . ce of a destrnetive 111'ensticaiie;
It it 'patter et' eengei tektites that thetile- th„ C. f;tesr,,,e s t, i rise ) e e .l eh 6 It i t T et ,a ; g I not o_nly e erlseatioti of the Wein: l ie:lkt hilt lehich • teieltedCobeirf 1844,1 the supreme sae
Hardie iiiringteitte:' lidfaricieg in a career of teason wl.v a coneetatorv,sptrit tase•mot. en n- a t i r t a o ti r i o n ' h o ' - f t l , r h h t e : h tl i b o i tt 6 on t i i i i, k .64 ll9 oo nir j out eli a t oo , l4 l4o 6ll' l6 ': ' ‘ ,tr ibni ngi l sh i e r.f. thil lmeer e tatle hland te in . n fo i rth 's e lt A t : Pet ell i fe c t".
prewperity and peace. • " • ' ale the two goternmen,s to ot ereenl . e. all o n b.
you hildue thew ;-; e e"., •tot r es- '•Ui 4 ) I), elpeths, of *stain. building matedaheage pro.
WARM ILULATIUNS T .CINTRAT. AIigUICA• . emotes to a satrafactory adjustaiem Of, the $46.
Whilst relation. of amity vutititioe to eiiat joot. 1 , -•,.-Intursattrateleagiorre st ectutj,,aol.,„,, l e mennee, free of dtty, huir,evolietlit when abodt
,„
between tlfeited: Stale* and ill foreign Assured of the nmeetness of .the .conntruc- I I repee n t.the ,teetiggeesee t teette, emeet t i .i stere,:,te,. half the Prim °vied elapsed, ta ebehtetieft
ofeitizensof the eked States, who -bed pea.°
powers. with weer 'uf thenr.grue question* *are
tion of the treaty constantle 'decree • to n b , y . thisi ho .110he°,-1170,`:tin°4141.1rorir1411%Infingve.11.1:%?:10,",Pc"".,,Ink,'''''..; 6ceited id:* cin diet faith ' Of dun decries' Th e
*pending which napyregeire the considetation .gurentenent, anti resolved to in/dim ...
of 0 0tign .,,,, ,• • • • ;• . • t• - ---' -- !thin with ()riot Lefilhr fa Areal WI .• esditl; 'Elpiniatt Gevernment refused indemnifieatien
. rights o mho petted &ilea.' Yet s' , '. l -4 3104 31 " '''" 'tut u, ' _
Of ouch queettotei: the ; tnost important is .. hy the same desire wilicil il 81•1"14`r ;b : the! hie the !le./C:46141 Voilif6h 'IM difethe'VOlL tt.thePnetiss attgrieved.until. recently, *hen
t i te i l •ttp• wseb l e g tode remettgmetetinitguoes; it 'Wile Wanted to, pleural being premisiol
that which has' ari.4it oat of the' nego tie dons British governmeei, to reinorn • all Cebstit • Of
• with Groat Britain in • reference to Centre! , be g ot , misunder , t •;• i t t-.j; l - ,- • - ..,- i iirldeh'pnietatshinsiil Ellirettien.sr tit{ extitat I. tP, beettedetiessope RS* SUUFIUIIt :Oue cut bei
nanny
ine sleety) e otene deo , and ~,,,
• Atnerlell•• e' , :-.I '" i' ' .I .: lassOciated by se many tic: id' interVAt int kin- lel 8 '"'P gr1888 " -.86 the" Btl4Blll ` r in .418 " / ""1 - " g e 8 F•U l t_ i p itt g.. 11 *; I! elt• t •' -
By the eonventlou c o n cl u ded between the , tired, it has appeared to nut ;fruiter aortae:on.' n l l n lr tsor re l t " lttoi .b b it el ko rtt hlra lekle ti4 Ane pi e p isetit ea "ilen iii rite t!si l • ; o ,9; li n d is t l h tlZl a ll ea l s e r. o lB fl B l° e ti tt . ea e. la ni t e na r e m e .D f l no th o e ih ' ss a rt t e d t • a l n ei d .
two Governments lid the .19th of April , 1850, eider an amicable eoluCien' of .1. 1 / 1 1'sxotroveriy
both parties covenanted that "nei th er will ever h ei ed e , a , , , ~,. e ~
~ , i ; i . el deem of . the, Vitittel• ht'atet, inefOißg , thekilietai:tfeeeediff; but there iiseteiestene tot believe
campy. or ibrtify or colonize, erns/mime or ex. ) Th ere iaeriewe,. • . non te apprehinloltitin-e. rearecnig! anifitariiiislii . lfini' 4either. : The 1 that it will be, and that case, with others, eon-
*nista any '<thole'* . ewer Nicarogua. COHate . with Great Britein in the eetusl otetio pros"niett of,griPeiitliaßltigolihinit hies'enteriet tinsetattatbet, terged•-ms,,the attepn of, the
Rine. the Metelgite Petal or ally part of Centre' the die uteri territories ,: • •
and hi, treat P 4 ,' °I beisii fthwifith tw ii(dalt dr/bath:entail forfirsteit'Sp9Oh feeedroment. Ida not /Abandon' the
AmesoLt ee ~ ; . . , , , p ., I, ,y there- : nor. P ienneit . ty I A 0 *bet nett • ie . , e , I h ope . ogeotionditti with go a • ,% n 2 • n t i t
e • 0 tgi -100 II •in 0 e •ge e
e • fore practically mill. po fere se regards nu; •
It was the unilonhted tinderstinding of the this intern/items! difficOlty.caniiot :sing', rig l'"-tiondatienee ofdility oisehe pert of the f Arrengeoientorhich, if it do not wholly erevent
Unita State:4,lhr Malting.thia 'treaty. that all' remain undetermined. without involving 416'N'e• 1011100,00400. 4 (4 peeve biotite metier will in-I,the,reeurrenee of ilifficulties ha Cuba, riii Ten
the present States of the, former repitblio of rions dsneer, the friend' • •I'ellsthull'lltb 3 h It heti ttraeseletheliangeee Itert dighttikiletatuf; the cop- der them leufrettient, and whenever they
Obetral Amities; and the entire territory of i t h e i inen e tt a , we if as I f lr oxy , t)g lint e l
.tnittotixen orrivigep.,,, i,.., .. , . , ' , iballneeirfiieilitate their, morespiedy settle
*eh. would thenceforth enjoy complete inde- Ito cherish 'and theme-U. It; tfill &treed . met S t e t edersterelinislitileti ri t e 18 the esttent,ehar **Mt; i4 ' ' ' ' . ' ' • •••
The interpotiltion of this tgereernmeat bas
' pendent*: and that both contracting non des I sincere gratificntioe 'lf hone* •effitetti shalt- re. 3 8 " iti8818• " ,14. 14 " i f" i14 " 88 " 1 1 •u lt l 4 B " I°B t • • •• I wing °. . • : • '
engaged equally. and to the, same extent. for salt in the AlleCelll4 anticipated „heretafura with - il"rsucli'i 11'4
(14'61 " ' 4" the
P4nrnft-Y.°r'
11,0 l'eget'relffounit Agrrealturaltfeompany, re.'beeninvokedby mimy of its citizens on fie
' thtt Illte•ont and for the fiitnr'e ; tliit ir ebbe* ' more confidence than 4te 04 Oat , of. }llo.lils f 's
then bad ling Chiba of right iii Central Aineri- 1 , pennies um now to entertain P . • beriesf.in nartrecy with,Orelt Dritaillotelallen ' c° lll4 O IIRJurteR done to their persons end
e-, ~ .t , .'• , • , to seererrkt u ty,ef,Oregen, e e lut,d. m e son to , propuey, foe/which the Mexicali republic is
at, each claim ; and all occupation 'or authority ' ItaOIIIOITWCSIT • • ' helicre Ili i n cession ut, the rigets,of both reponsiblee The Unhappy sitUation' of
that
under 'IL weft unreservedly relintlitisbod by One other' " object or dieettss l ion • hetWean the - ,
the atitialatimui of the convention; and that linked States and Great Bribilitlronigroven pet 888•I P" 0 !""t 0
1
the Ueiteet State! wide!) would : country, for some li mit post, h as not allowed its
he t • Michela ineane of tertuitAiing 'all ques.' goionunent tegive'due consideretion'to claims
no dominion was thereafter to be elereiw 4l "r i of' the attempt: *bids the fief wider/ or the *kr h
• swiented in any beet of Central America. by lin which she i g
e a engaged with Reliefs induced', • ... ' wit h ,.. ,. . , ,
Great Brititio or the United States.
~ , ~ et to WA e g to tow recto el how 'the eited . -
i h k d'' — i • U ' and. n view le Ind ems. .' Present the 1 for and t testify some forbearance in such mat
-This peeniment consented to restrioncins ; e mus. , . ; . ; - 1 suh i lectie the astentlonof Congeals. ' 1 tors on 0 part of this government. But, if
. / .he .colony of Newfoundland, having cane. the revolutionary movements, which have late-
in regard to •a regioti of country wherein we 1 It is the tranitkmpi and settled Policy or the
bad specific, and peculiar interests. only upon tad the laws regoired hyette treaty of the 6th .. ly occurred in that republic, end in the organi• 1
I United
t H h i e et w eß ar t m o n w le ii i i t e l h tai r n ro l i t i l l :P il a i r u ti o e t 7 i t o r:l c ly . ..: o f
.1" 0 ,.. f 0r, I , t ,„ o,,,,,,piaattti on the Rom, foot- 1 zution ore, stable government, urgent appeals
the conviction that the like restrictions were , d ur i ng
to its justice will then be triad° and, it may b e
in thediaii tense 'obligatory on Great Britain . . I cur among the great peekers of the wothl. Per- i in l t ' iii rett P rci iilemitittriiti inter " Dur3P with hoped, with success, for the redress of all cone-
But for thi s understanding of the force sue I f orm i ng all the duties of neutrelity Inwards I I . lpl erti. ired 818t "' vi I" either BrillB"uritt
effect of the convention it. would never have the • belligerent B • atrwrio.in provinces.
.. e .,„ te plaints of our citizens. •
respective tutor. we may rea
lbeetteconaleded by , no. • . - sonably expect them 'not to interfere with our milli)
•The mentitieston, which that treaty nen CeNTRAL ADICRICA.
So' tear as thi s un d ers t an di ng en t h e pe r t, , jewfut
enjoyment
of its heneiate. leted, fur doe rouniog the right* of fishery 111 In regardto the American republics, which,
of United States that, In correspondence Noterithetanding the existence of such hos. the river* end months of • rivers on the coasts from their proximity and other considerations,
sontfeeponineotte with the ratification of the tilities, our citizen', retain the individual r igh t of the Unitett §tAiteir and.,tho British North
have eculiar •relations to this government,
ainiehtion4 it was distinctly expressed that to continue all their accutomed pursuits. v American province.). 11,10 been organized mid while lit hos been my constant aim strictly to 1
, het, commenced Its labors ; to en „, p i ete w h ic h observe all the obligations of political friend • the:Meths! ourenants , or non•occupation were h a d or by see, at h ome or abroad, subject onl y '
Intended to sppl . y to the British establiehment to each restrictions in this m e dico as the iaw there is . needed further apprupriettotut fur the alliP and of good neighborhood, obstacles to
' this have arisen in some of them, from their
at
.ennead
Ellie& This 9 0 , 11 ifIcatiOn la, to be um'' of war,the usage of nations, o eci I trestles , n service cif 411°Iii-ir 8P34°11.
• eri die, fact that, in Virtue of successive t
i ., ,. , , . , may memo I and amour sovereign' right that
acme! with previous sovereigns of the coon. our territory and jurisdiction Shall not he in- in pertinence to ilot athority eonforred by a tiens which, in effect, throws most of the task
try.llntat Britain had obtained a concession of traded hy either of the belligenmt paities, for reeolotiott of the senate s it the United States, on the United States. Thus it is that the dis
erected internal condition of the State of Nies
the• eight ii, Cut mahopny. or dm-woods at the transit of their armies, the operations of. Pl'B'4l on 1h " 311-°(-46 ' 11 lam ' nitti " B 4 ‘ 33
the llallat, . but with positive exclusion of,all their fleets. Ow levy of theme for their servieee. given to Denmark oil the Ittli day of April. of ragua has made it inearnbeet on me to appeal
donlain or soventignty t and thus it oontimut the fitting out of cruises& by or seainet either..; III " 1111 "" it "" " Id " g itveriu " Bl 141 avail i"rif to the good faith a our citizens to abstain frotn
unlawful intervention in its affairs, and to a•
thetee4mloenternetion and, tinderetood import or „ y. ot h er *et or hteiden4eit war . . , 4 e nit tince , i uf the mile' le tile of the , subsisting oOnvention
of die treityns to all the rest of the neon to undeniable rights of neutrality,individual • and 0r
. • ,_
friendship, codatoorce and navigetion b.- dot preventive measures to the same end,
• ' . which
whieli the stipulations applied, • ; rational . the United &stele will under nii'ole; suite in retuutoring the peace of the Mexican,
twee" that Kingdom rind die United Stated,
~ on a eimilar occasion, hnd the best re-
II: however .. became apparent, et.ate 'early, cumstances surrender. '. ' ' .- I whereby either party might. after ten yearn ,
•
dayiafteir 'entering upon the 'discherge• r
0 - tItY" In purimanee 6f this Pelfeeet the la** of the ter ,, d ham 'lid 'R i ne , at the exp i rat i on o r cos ., Suites ofSollotilf Slid leawer California.
present functions that Great Britain ' Mill 'oone tr o t te d g tetee /d e . ne e te o bsd t h e i r ,t e i t k e h e , to i lest from-the date a notice for (het purpose. i •-• • - ruerurs.
Mimed in the exercise or assertionof large ad. .
101 l to either of the belligerent Powers articles I The considerations which led we to call the 1 Singe
,the Net session of Congress a treaty
ehoeity, in ell that , part of .oentral _America' etentriband of wros,pe to take reenttipno of War attentioamf eleugeess eie . that, ame!en ti on , 4r 4 of entity; commove, and ntivigation, and for
commulyenilled the Mnegeittecosat..• and eters , or soldier' en,:heardi-,tbeir 7 primate .shios for 1 nl4"l4":St'Ve to sidept die reaolunen re. ' the serrendlir of fugitive criminals, with the
sling fheentire length of the State ofNiearagua , uanaporta lo ge.; .4 i t t b aug b , ,i n, pi . doin tis the fere , eo,,ice sti 1 onetiMet ig, .611 eiree. • l'he ' kingdemeef the l teto Sicilias ; a treaty of friend
mitt a part 6,- Costa Rica ; that she re girded individual citizen exposee his property or per. conn o„„ ce 4 l o„. ei , tal ki e „mkt,. a hh,„,,h .ship, commerce, end navigation With Nicene
the'BKea ka hr _ads/dote. &üb!, !rid Wei , /,,,„ to auto „e the ha t iftede ,. el e. wiiK b to , st i it demi' net ditto - Oily - 6er age itin• United Steles Poi and a convention of cominercial recipe°.
graddally I extending 'lto limits at the'.exneitee do• not involve
,May -breach of - thithmal 'nee- to 04tilifft to the itnposition-a kith, on the tes• city with the .3awaiitta kingdom, have been ne
of thie•litste of Bonder-sat 'and that she had. itality, nor of theipeilent intellteeite the:Warne'. 1 Cele COit earftwirorA tart loin* p assin g i on et gotiated., ,The latter kingdom and the State
formalli•oolullizeda tenteiderable insulsr group men. Thus. deeingethe 'Wapner
of
tie pres. , learn ihrey:atio , sea. doting the continuance tif' of Nicaragua have else acceded to a declare
kninep rued'', Bay Ision4s,and ,beleoging. of en t , wee in Europe ;
our c,izeast beet without this Wet". Yok Pity, by 110$ si bil i ty, he consult. ,i on, recognizing as ;
mternetionnl tights the
eiehtrbithett State " ~ , , • ~, ~ i : , R ational re o - ibi ' ;•
...
' ''
ep rot , I to ; therefor. ,s 1 ides implying meth seemiseion The OTAC- PrinelPles contained in the convention between
d feellPflw - 1 r , I I ', l '. i
Allthese'acte or preteneione of Omit:B i ne d 1 „ 0 ,,, of the ! t on o
~t to-e PI 0 not te tee Justifiedb y any
, , . , . d e r and arms to all buyers. mgar Iy, 1854. These treaties and convention will
tale'. 'biting ,conteliest to the righte of the &Attie
; d est i oat i oro f too/014041. Our
,i ' un i tate , i i.l princirle' 4 - internationalit hecanto the
,011innleal• Artierico. yid to the' matiffeetteeteit 1
nen nave been. and still eontinee to he, lar e• I
u 61)111 1 :led elte ditty ofihe'iYiliteil Steles to Tn. ha laid•before the Senate for ratification.
eof ilinielipulations with the •United Statesvem "ly employed tr
oops. k•-gitete end rr e e neu ri n i ligiVic iffearnielves; fremettle implication 01 en-; . . lAEA:WAY.
understood) by.•thiti govemtnent, ,have! ,bach flans ling tr' proiriSionS:4iiii intintilons 1 4egemmit °rialto sehjeut, eo as et be perfectly Tim, statements made by the last annual
tradeethe'Aatelect,of negotiation through - the.o f war toitii:'peineimil' seitts'ohniittery ".a .
open; I la, u to net i n t h e presuilles in soch way as their 03 'essikee.reepecting the nuticipated receipts
.
itmer i lean - Minieter in London, I tratettnit • i a nd •e • • . •- -• • I public interests mid hunor shall M men d. and expenditures of the Treasury have been
t Dos, in ringing home their seek end ; substeitablly verified.
If *•• h the i •t i" to te it ' b
he
~, ru. ruc 'inn; din opt. °tit° e wounded soldiers • Mit ouch use ot our Me C 1 n • / •i; r eri" s i r t h e °P1"1"" that
,111 " U n ited
jee,•ititil the correspondence between hit " gild` tile . • • ... . •el - '-' - r i -. Slates on . .elti not In aultinit: tn . this fiLaiineni' of "It appears from there port of the Secretary
111,0111014.n0t, In t erchoten,tetheeby tilt' i n .l
.
thit'entlith SeitretaryAlrre' h '.
eign Al , y ternationd rseby per municipel haw uid them , I '"P,, 1 "."" I ,"."es. not sn notch beeititie of ',telt
which you will perceive that the two goetern- • '
Toro d •t • '• , . . , e t .e • , ainotint, witti-li la a istintitadary Matter, but bu
, pr me uer utters neleuens fiscal year ending June 30, 1855, from alleuur.
monis :differ :kiddy and irreconcilesbly , as•tee • ' es R° ;Pm el . 'I,
t 'midge if is in 'effeet-thal4criellition of the right. cos were sixty five million, three thousand nine
with Russia. hundred and thirty dollars ; and that the pub.
thicatmstructiou °fetes convention. and its 'Fe • ) But ourlei 11 '' '• ' ' ofierminarkito treatone of Ilia great, maritime
nume aw.an ,lecordanee with ;„. , . . , . c • , exclusive
s i r
a , expenditures for the same period
feettepa ..their ,respenivre relations, to • •
.Central , .the law of nations. perremptorilpforbidae.not " "
tg witys ut itittotittas,a -plosti, seu, and th e , . ,
pay Ineitti , On accoent of the public debt, tie
„America. ~n .ti,te. olnly foreie,ners • butiour , Own citiZens •to tit riattigotion 4 /, it pa a Dritrileie 6)r nhicli tri-
Ureat Britain so construes the convention it • the '•• .- .' bat. b • - i f' .. l. i. i • • • Mounted to fifty•six million three hundred and
nut, within linuct akin) United:Suit*. awillitY - e mignon tils.in those wla tare .. , .
to motinsiti. j ouchangpi• all her prev.lousrpre- g e „„d to comm i t h os d it j ea sda i net ,o, 111110 eeCamen tri use it. -- - ' ; '- - - . •• • e enttytfive thousand three htindred and ninety
tep . Oeie
. ovce the Moequito coast, and ie clitfle with which thei/Pr •I t l ltaitetrirn4 • tigit9o' Cr -i l k i r e a gi S'ili..k oi ii i ii! ee,,,,,te erte ,„ he,„elon not' three dollars. During dee same period, .the"
thit,pans or Central Anteriee. Thiiiie peetti - t e to ucan thereettne and foreign 'e` - i , t ea ••;,, A . unlike aill ' kelltfliT i Sighigliatql'itedsteriat nation paymenta Made in redemption ,of the public
sidenettito the Moequito whew aro &undid earl 41 intended feteitig• tehe;olllitiskailiiiiii r e's friend- t oentelta i dt b e , Rem a cm , a t ,. ~„.4.,, and pf mho . debt, including interest and premium, enamel.
the e etotemptien of political relation ,laetween• dy atate " '''.• ••• - ''' 4 " ''' '-"'' '' ; 1 trreate•nataral channel*, of tmeigatiqn. , 'r ho gilts Mee million eight hundred,aed fortytfiaur
Great Biitain and th e rm e nan t i ir A tribe Of le- Weh . t
• . '• I Montt, Ststee ,h 0,4 I 1 • • • 4.' thousaud five hundred and ; -
,went dol.
.or A sogatinis. Co Orce t. ... , . • ,
ti i a ever concern interline...been t felt by
ha coast. entered into if ti e *he either of the belligerent 'powers'. lest If el 111 ` P a l i n "( tllllBlB 1.111 9 811 68 " h6 " 3 • -8.
theler/tole ate:into; WAS ei colonial poseleasibetett A rme d ere :
omeseiniathenvOesele.in the:fl i er
° L i e ; eh' ee q ua freted the Mellitterraimen. d en the • The balance in the Treasury at the begin.
Spin ; _ • It cannot lie succciafully contrayerteel 7
of one , might be fitteqouten the poreee this) !eta tremaminf shalt letyriaini neat by , tlfenr; ning fthe preeent- fiscal vear, July 1,, liess,
tliatebytt'llie ito hi ie Is Wof Eiirtipe and _A deficit.' cemetery to depredate on th e preperty of, • tee i tile'tnetitti'Sialt,i,althiltigb stiffener tiesi by was eighteen million nil
hundred and thirty
nettioesible 'ace of Mich Indian* or'their prede: other. all seep ( oa f„ hhe e.nroveti to It -at titter , ; teiiedepmentieoe than many other untiona,re.. oue•tthonued nine huetired and, seventy-stx
*lsom tenil4 confer on Great &nate an " P ' r di • ''' 0.. '- I ~. •- , - '• lartaidullt.4 , ealtlfrit. Answer that we ' i
preterite, , dolltus; the receipts for the first quarter and
lineal r!l,hts . •
• 3. g r°BB •88s •it ; Rr.,9.M0.? hat e Pbt!Y/ 'FIVI - 9etituated recei is for, the remtunin
„t,..;;;. , ,
;,. ,
~,..,,,,
..; ba d r m. , , , ,tjut.,.etieb it
.#,....0 40 , 1 4 , bs. .ki ad , War io , tritnionaitli 411.1.1fi!opeited.ths way to the the ;... .. ,P , , .ff titres:
from, an 5 1111 1:ttiF, 9 ; amount , together, to sixty - seven num
Great Britain does not allege the asseni of faith, 'ea by 're,irtrefor the foW. ' ' ' , relicfleftnritatintiierfitholAlin world .
Biiiiiial the origin (Sher claims oil Mei- ' ; While the laws of The• Union 'are nu per - , a g ,,,,,,,, n b iee ', A et , b p , , goott 'i t e e d i,,, h • the ton, nine hdiffired end eighteen thinisaud seven
• hotiatea and th-rty-fuhr dollars ; thus affording
OMltotslatit, She has. on the contrary , byre . amatory in thew prohibition of the equiptitent i (,turn PSwivilll nations 0 &trope.
, , a d 18.81
' • las the available resources of the current
pealed and enceeeeire treaties , renounced and or armament of belligerent oruitiets 'in- au !
, it the Tanner ofpay meet - oe the Noun ties ,
fiscal year, the sum of eightpeix million eight
relinquished all' pretensious of het' 'etveh.ind • arts. they pr./14de netelees e h en t it ud y t het a no ' , duet; , , unit ifilitqc . o. White ( trinerly bonnet,-
Norheed the full andsovereign righteof Spain person shell, within the toe hors or eirisdie. • "t 1 to tbe • IfetbßierStates,
pre rision,s, 80 teultunt solid . futintiation in the self, or hireecie rettlie Reuther prsou in eukist :.
A .., ~, I by Denntarkttaae'nebettertfoundation in right. ;
Ali thee . exaction ; hundred and fifty-six thousand . seven hundred
and ten dollars.
in. C e ntrist, uncqnirocal terms. , Yet it SO lion of the,UpitedeepOies. eel •
, e is e. Or Onto, . p,tu•,, /fee the actual expendituresof the first guar
. .
beginning, and tiles repeatedly'etemed. were, or enter hiateeff, • eje t° •ibeyond the beide or :
1
a , ,,cigtolisun• .0 , 10.1rdl eight, es Weed by those to of the current fiscal year be added the pro •
b fe impenditurei for the resnainingthree-quar
ae,alrecent period, revered by Gr e at ; B r it a in , je r i s dictithe of the teee t i Suites' a•i..11 intent to eel),W4Ol OA li . trle able trxotmlnici Ilia free, 3
tees, is estimated by the Secretary of the
agairie t tethe Cowin American Stat e s, tl ie l eg l t i, be eneeted- jv eitterede in lhlr, - aotalca ;Of at.,l.'sstti aa..nre a )ey 1)..t.,i o f it, but Wlla 110 100gl. 1
1 Treasury, the sum total will ho seventy-one
milieu sec.:moors to all the ancient jeriedictien foreign vtateeeither is 11 , MiCiter k Cirsitg' ii. rici- : ''' P • ' 3 '''''' ' ll ''t P°'"'•
of, in in :that region . , ThoY woo first •ap.. tine or 50313140r0n board of any ?cool of war, 1 Deninfirk' - ,i.h . iii,
tok,tin
our
i9in
t , r i million two hundred and twenty-six thousand
, eight hundred and fortymix deems, thereby
lilied only to a defined pert. of the cease of letter of tuarcjee or privateer, I AIM these en. t.tne freednin . of tin , li.dtichSo i und and He r l i r h °
caragus. afterwaide to .the whole ‘6r i•t,, Ate utinents are site ti etrjet. confortutty tai t„ ti , e. ,' iiidielte.l, a. readiness to man .II I li
tio
I -vitistr and lastly ' to a' • part o f C osta law of nations, Which deelares th at tin same figs ,ra venues t s • ot tete euittect e l and • h, i u s Inv now
t a h f.
t A . , "1 leaving an estimated bulance in the treasury
ion Jule 4,185 e, of fifteen million six hundred
pod twenty.three thonsand eight huhdred and
Rice and titer are now re-asserted to thin ex- the light to raise trOops for land or see service • J , gee e temente, lute reeled, Inc I edi air the Unite; sixty-three dollars and forty-one cents.
tent, notwithalandiug engagements to the U in anotherstate'vvithout its`consent and chat, ) Slaws, to ho , represented in a eeneention to 1 In the Oove estimated expenditures of the
fitotes : ,. ~ :
..
.. . , whether forbidden by the Municipal law or not 1 nsiseinble fur Me potpie of receivingd 1
dopers
year are included three million
Qii the eastern coiuit of Nicaragua and Costa the very attempt to do. it, Without '
such can: I conitidering prepositions. whit-I, she '1 nn
I lends ollars to meet the last enstaliment of the ten
tie" the interferen of Give Britain, i
~ . . ea t though sent, is an attack on the naional sovereignty.; to guile - tit, for tine cepitalieation of the Sound I ai• provided for in the tato treaty with
dented it one time in the form of military oe , Such being the public rights and the mimic. : dues, and the distribution of thesunt to h id I 112151128
apa M exico, and seven million seven hundred and
asjoitierf of the • port of San Juan del Norte. ipal law of the United Suites. no solicited° on. :meow tat'
, insj e inn amonk the , governments. eel fifty thousand dollars appropriated on account
then li t the peaceful possession of the appro- the subject was entertained , h
y this govern. cordite; to the respective roportione of their of th
P , e deb.. due to Texas, which two sums make
plrigte authorities of the Central Amenem went, when, a year since , the British Paella- I m • •
muerte eotnmerve to and from the Baltic Ilan aggregate amount of tailmillion seven hen-
Wink is now presented by her as the rightful meet pessed an act to 'provide for'h declined, inbehalf• .
the enlist-" age of the United State I
8 died sad fifty thousand dollars and reduce the
.
eigetese of a protectorship over the Mosquito meet of foreigners in die military service of, to accept , this 1 i for •
inv tat on, the more cogent!
expediteactual
res, or estimated, for ordinary
tribe of Indiana. Great Britain. Ntithing on the face of the act ,1 reagens. One is, that Denmark IT !
~)lees not re objects of the year, to the sum of sixty million
Bit( the establishment at the Belize. now or in its public hietory. indicated that tie; ito peen', to convention the uestion of her'
q . fear hundred and seventy-six thousand dollane
dashing for beyond die treaty limits into the British government proposed to attemio re- : rielte to levyfen a
the -. UU.• duos , A second 11. The amount of the public debt, at the coin-
State of Honduras. arid that of the Bay hands, Orliitinent in tbo United Steles; lion did i •
lever , that if the convention were relowed to ea
... ta ke meocement of the present fiscal year, wag forty
eppertanung of right to the seine State, are give intitution or such:intention to this 'goy. Leittri '•
tie InCe 111 that ['tunneler qateilinit. still It • million livehundred and eighty-three thousand
distinctly colonial governments
as abuse Of erll!fleilt. It was matter of eurprise, thereture. : would not he r.ompetent enthral with the •
i., 1 e great { six hundred and th irty-one dollars, and, de.
Jamaica or Canada. and therefore contrary to to tied, su betementl v. that the ellgaritenl or international principle "•• 1 . ril
I:70 V. . w i lt • i effect*: ductiou being made of subsequent payments,
Ow very letter sa well as the spirit of the e 01 1 • permms within the United Stores hi proceed to the right in other e
a , ell _ I naalgalli n 8 1 01 etn• ; the whole
. peblio debt of the federal govern
, emetion with the United States, as it was at Halifax in the Briti.ll to °Vince of Nova &ode i ittroial timid]
I ;
~ . it, as well a. thee of aerials to I meet remaining at this time is lase than forty
diatime of ratification, and scow is, understood tel I
11(1,. t.lef e enlist in the sees ice iti Gee ti ]'limo, . ,
the Billie. above all, 'by, the express terms I illie di
by this goverment,
.. Per Interpretation which the British govern
toent.iliu in assertion and act. persists in as
-Cribb:lg to the convention. entirely changes its
'boluses— While it holds us to all our oblige
ittin a great measure releases Great
'in fnmi those which constituted the con
eidemthm of this government for entering into
Stg convention. It iMisopogaible, in my jutlg
ittentl Sue the United Bums to acquiesce ip such
kettostroction of the respective relations of the
two governments of Central America. '
TO I renewed tall by this government upon
Oteatitritain to abide by. and carry into ef
-lbati tborsilpelstions of the Convention accord
misetizs ebeinusirnport, by withdrawing from
the pis melon or oolonization of portions of Om
Magus! American States of iiondunts. Nicer'.
kii ir
missed email Rica. the British government
at leng th 'replied. Arming that the opera.
''' Otte trtitty is prospective only. and did
tatiatilile Great Ontain to abandon or con.
. MaiNatirpisseaslona bold by her in Central
-111Undiailkatte data of ita conclusion. 4
This reply anisstitntea a partial issue in tha
.plajtettliaratenilooe town ted by the United
..Mlllsi'lbsi brine' b government • passes over
v , ~ illAbritiatai of Waal Britain. real
_ t
.. its !pal Azustimtomd ereutnes
sl"rti . "1"I • • ~„riglins t t zbe„date of .the
ro t
11; ''../fi fir b ' ended th e
lil , ' '7' -4? • . '''. anti Indians: the cx.
'' ' l ''' . ' eletuai Ire) mitt a thollabith
ia0.....0
T - • • atabk tilialtar tlitlaWiri awl Abe*:
opiho
,proori•di by implieatietio ink this, ii
the aittpulatioos of the tzse4y be merely future
m. tlFs.tt. tfieitt Beitsui may Oil OWIOIOI IA
was going on extensively, with little'or of ills- of the proposhion it is contemplated that the
guise, Ordinary legal steps were immediately consideration. of the , Bound dues shall be coin
takeri to arrest and punish patties concerned,' mingled with and made subordinate to a met
and so put an end to acts infringing the !un-' ter wholly etiraneoui, the bilanee of power
niepal law and derogatory to our sovereignty. ainoui thegyyermnents of Europe.
m ea nwhile suitable representations on the sub - 1, . While ~ , h owever, ' rejectin this`pre:Told
ject were addressed to the British goverinuent. d o/4
,00 di uo i st i ug
.on the ri tof free, tmn-
Thereupon it became known, by the admix i sit into 'and from the'Baltic,' I have 'ix
sion of the British government itself , that the presseiii to Denmark a:willingness, teti the part
attempt to draw recruits from ibis' country; of the United Staten, , to share - liberally with
originated with it. or at least had its approval other powerk in compensating her. for any
and sanction but, it also appeared that the advantages which commerce shall hereafter
public agents engaged in it had -.stringent in- i derive from, expenditures made by. her for the
structions" not to violate the euunioipal law of the improvement and safety of the navigation
the United States. • • 'of the Sound of Belts.
It is difficult to understand bow it should I lay before you, herewith, sundry doeu
bave been supposed that troops could he'raised meats on the subject, in which 'my views are
here by Great Britain without a violation of more fully disclosed. Should no satisfactory
the municipal 1,4. • The unmistakable object arrangement be soon concluded, I shall again
of the law was to; prevent edery each, act. ,eall , ,your ettentiou to. the subject, with
,reconi
which.' if perfeirinerl. roust be . either in Viola- fitinpu,ofauch measures as may appear to be
non of thew or in' stildied evasion of ft :and. reeuireii in order to' assert and secure' the
in ember:recreative. 1.4e.i10t done, would he - 1.411 6of thillnited State's, lo far 'lO they are
alike injurious w sovereignty of the. United 'affilettel by the pretensions of DeraiinilL•••
States... ,•• ,
. f. "•• •: „ ,a, ,‘ gajairnmy is 1
li. the meantime.. the. inatterAcqiiireeriddi- I anaemic* ,with much. gritificatiepa.thet,
tional importance by the recruitinenbt m the ,since, tyljournment of the , last congress,
United Statetr not being:diecOritnitied. 'end the thpqnestfpo then 64034 betweentihls .131 7.
disclosure of thifaCt that they . 'WON firusi;outetrernmeit andibat-',,of 'Prance,' reipectlti the
upon a syere`titede - plan tiaried 4 ).0-of8„dal au: French :e6rigul "at scat Pranehtto, 'has -bete
thority.; that recrnitinir iiritlefavousLhid beeta satisfactorily titteirdinedlind 'that 'the vela-,
opened itkmir,,p t iae l ipai Al f a ! arkd,deppl a fOr tions of thertwolorernmenta continue bo of.
the reception of eitisetnahlike4,cip our froi •e`:.the biost fetidly naturee,i
tier; and ths4l49J l l*exiirtee,,49 l l,44K4,.9ndfri. r • ,
theAuyervision alleppyibilAgaltr i pmeratidel A i qupinoa,A,lsp f , 4 wl o 4. itsA„J.Nett..poitsling:
of Bruish °lSt:ere , civil military, some la fqe several years between "the I.ruitieStitea
* North Anterioan porittose, and acme in and the Kingdom of Grans, growing, out of
the sequestration, by public authorities of that
country, of property belonging to the present
American consul at/Athens, ans which had
been the subject of very earnest discussion
heretofbre, has been recently settled th . the sat
is'action of the party interested sod of both
gbverumenta: -
million dollars:
The remnant of certain other government
stocks, amounting to two hundred and forty
three thousand dollars, referred to iu my last
message ss outstanding, has since been. paid.
lam fully persuaded that it would be diM.
cult to devise a "system= imperior to that by
which the fiscal business of the government is
now conducted. Notwithstanding thegre
za at '
number of public agents of collection and
burseent, it is believed that the checks and
guards provided, including the requirement of
monthly returns, render it scarcely possible for,
any eonsidentble fraud' on the part of those
agents, or neglect involving hazard of serious
public loss, to escape detection. I renew, I
however the recommendation, hertofore made
by me, of the enactment of a law declaring it
felony on the part of public officers to insert
false entries in their books of record or account,
or to make false returns,
and also requiring
them on the termination of their service to de
liver to their successors all books, records, and
other objects of a public nature in their custo-,
dj.
(wive as oar public'revenue is, in chief
part, from duties'on imports, its magnitude af
fords gratifying evidence of the prosperity, not
only of oar commerce but of the. other great
interests upon which that depends.
Theprinciple that. all moneys not required
for the current expenses of the government
should remain, for• active ,employment ,in the
hands of tie people, and t he "conspicuous fact
that the atufaitl revenue from ' iourees,ex
by many millions Of dollnrs; the amount
heeded foPo prident and , ecoielinfoll sthnine i
istntion of buplto affairs, cannot alto ems* I
- ---.
l the propriety of an early revision end reduction rapidly extending seulemenu in that region, and
;of the tariff of duties on imports. It is now so the (smiths** mail route ;between Independenca,
generally conceded that the purpose of rove- in the Sens of Missouri, and New Welk., Independency
nue alone can justify. the imposition of duties eentignotrii fo the Ilia, thergion the probability
l on impo r ts, that., in re-adjusting the import ta- that einharrassing„juestions of jurisdiction my ; tiles and schedule+, which unquestionably re- consequeralt,,atise. for these and other, coo l
quire essential modification, a departure from sideralk4te feattleeetal the labile' to your early
the principles of the present tariff ia, not sit'' attentioa t .......: .; '...
tieirited., . , „ ~, !„,,, O.B7tTALM I L.IIIIIIIIIIIIr fly 1118 est _
ARMY. i have thus poised hi review the geterefitimi
been of the Union, including each particular coacitine
actively engaged in defen •
The army, during the
the I year .i has
ndian fron-
o f the adirel: niesset;wleithes of domestic. or
tier, the slate of the service permitting but
few and smellgerrisoas in our permanent for foreign reliable, as it • re to rue desirable
and useful to bring to the epeeist notice of Con
tifientken. p ie a ddi t i ona l: mime - tan w h am rasa Unlike tie great sto. esof.Europe ace ... Asia,
b een and many of those of America, these united
"4 at the lat PallitiOlt st q"P li r a t tr c e • States are Wasting there strength neither in for
recruited ah organifed, 'stid a ' t hum
tho.troo_ps bays already been sent to the
Gd. Aifthe—difilitOrldelrill?rettron sign war nor dozwinic strife. Whatever of dia.
.ths. Altaie aftloktestfm_tlim esists,,it atitibut.
bhp 80-ttliViiiiraiiirinrerirMilinirlr,
military ; eetabliehment, him . been. ,_,lla,tisfletce,,,,,, , _ ,
,Lidens ;to. nii gOssrpneety hewever,perfect,
: th ril e Y i rw aent rargi ta t edi hi lla ctitidete d Illeaa i a ' ° Ort ris ht;' .*fi tteril d P ilt riv6vt ittlts u i l i
,4141
.wh,ic ti li ch hh naliaiur nse wisdom can de lo vise hau .
igs
odor :
lir
red of oor tpope have furnished' naditional 'a it ori i ,:fonsist t 0 is , entat. !steps' of ef.".
, eTideniesiif their oesillige.' teal, and capacity
,agiimik(oii,ei ~iliiiiiileariti; or: OVer stst ttilitiO
De meet at requildtt" which' their! O cc ,9,P , •cial tchimiv's so: Of iiilhlohliiiiiiiii. er
. V 4. 1-
tiay maki upon them.'-, Fee ebe,ilt_Laila. wa .." 4 ,_.istieel'hiVig btieelti'illintieleontioe'drif INA shit
militerf , :operatiOrtar,44),_dia i f i r A ° F!*,...,l t t'lsiths constitutional functions or Julies of ibfkliodil
troop ? tiadwlditienlat Prov.ttnelte regt" ' °`. ,eral soverement. To whstevsr, Imam them
the Endow service, If
,rifer th . tyi#Vtspt . iitl'of the., q - eeitlelis "rxhibif 4. 'aiiilenVii s?hiinselilje in' 'tbdo
Scerctait,orWStand the Seie*anSect dectl'! ate tillity6f 'the Constitalon; Ott' , 6lliiitirgrltytioe
petite: ' ' '' ' '' ' ''" " 1 ‘' : I ,"i'the Ireton, aniltmileribesi they , ilemend thentenvl,
, Experirtifee, l gathered *sit' *yenta ':whica ~ eldersition of (the. Ex eentloo l ,tirpsitir liaise,
have'traimpired since my ;last innual; message,. p r e sito r e d,l4 h i M to copious. , i _ , ) . ; A: .. , , ,
ithsbutierredlostrefirai the opinion then OA: i; Be re thelhisteint.Coloniea iodiiiiiii to 01.
PreliGed Oil 0* PTIOPII• of 3441 4$,Pr Vill i bi . 1 1 fed B / 1 01011,0c111d0M10108 . t !Pei ' theyWhie ite-
a retired list, tor disabled officers, and fot” trkiet A . 0n) ,
~
1 by eciiprirtontftif/ tranestlmathit
increased compensition to the iiilicerti reterned.: Mi*, 'by .giogrl 0 h i c a I +mit* wild ob - aftln
on the list for 'image ,deity.. All" the Mason' I l
• mutual tie of •oothmith '.depdodeueei,un
%which exiittea when these Memel" were TeC°M l 'firitain: r ' When , that; "tie t watt sondinni s thtl , l
mended on former oceasiOns continue without-I neyera ll y , muted the power . ~p d ,4 .4 0,1 4 o f f
inedifieneieni except ' so far as alseecistacco,
; absolute self government. :the' municipal anti
have given to . some of them additional 6 wEe• ; aociitl irtetitutioneof i!841, iis laws of pronerty,
; P ' srl ille ielreorge mai ni e za nd ti ll o ti n p?ljs of h th ere e a t ty n are msd als e o tbr retl, p lku n d i xi lti lmilm od ; 4 41 : 4 14 i u lati ch ° 0 a kt eri u lta eh " oh i e lii eh t ° to r ' '
newed. The thorough elementary education establlsb,'wholly 'without interferentie from any
given to those officers who commentetheit ears ! nthet ,,,, ~, , ~
~, ~,
.. ; ,
vice with the grade of cadet qualifies them to a : In the' language of the Declaration of /ndee
considerable extent to perform the duties of! pendenee, oath State hed I .'loll power to levy
every arm of the service ;.but to give the high -' ' war, conclude peace, contract alhences, Vaal);
est efficiency to :artillery requires, the va c tlee dish commerce, and to do all 'other, acts end
and special study of many yeare; and I lot : things which independent States mei ()fright
therefore, helietied to be advisehle to otatete'e , , do.", The several colonies differed hi climate,
in time of peace, a larger force of that arm in soil, in natural productions, in religion. in
than can be usually eniployed in the duties ap- I systems of education, in legislation, and in the
pertaining to the service of field and siege it ,
tillery. r
, f orma of political administration; and they
The duties of the staff in all its .vari-
out branchescontinued to differ in these respects when they
and the e belong to the movements of troor , voluntarily allied themselves a States to carry
efficiency of an army in the field wou d
materially depend upon the ability with which ou the war of the revolution.
those dunes are discharged. 1
The objects of that war was to disenthrall
It is not, as in the case of the itri,,,„, _ the United Colonies from foreign rule, which
"_.” - ' had proved to be oppressive, , and to '-separate
edge of the duties of an officer of the line, and
speciality, hut requires else, an intirnateknowl
them permauently from the mother country ;
it is not doubted that, to complete the_educa-
the political result was the foundation of a fed
ral
tion of an officer for either the line or the gen• republic of the free white men of the coi
o
eral staff, it is desirable that he should have
I mites, constituted, as they were, in distinct
, and indepeudent State governments.
served in both. With this view it was recom•
mended on former occasions that the duties oC I As for the subject races, whether Indian or
the &Coif should be mainly performed by details
I A frican,
being engaged in no extravagant eeheme
can, the wise and brave statesmen of that
a
from the line ; and, with conviction of the ad
of social change, left them as they were, and vantages which would result from such a ,
change, it is again presented for the consider-
thee preserved themselves and their posterity
titian of Congress.
from the anurohy, and the ever-recurring civil
NAVY. '
wars which have prevailed in other revolution.
The report of the Secretary of the Nary, ,„ iced European colonies of A:Medea.
When the confederated States found it eon•
herewith submitted, exhibits in full navel op
veriient to modify the conditions of their /taste
orations of the past year, together with the I_,„„__ , ,_ giving
government.
present condition of the service, and it makes.
4 11; 3 " e n' t " ae L'4:: in
so to me ih m e
Inge:tiler/41, t0 the people
suggestions et further legislation, to which your
attention is invited. , . I
o o
n f rho a
the
States, swuls i n u e te a t u t c
h d off t t
h e o ey n confining e
e i
at to
0 fram e
which
The construction of tbe six,steam frigates
last'or
which apprtpriations were made by the l h n e...g u ..ti n n g l.constitution, adhering steadily to
ICI thought, which was, to delegate
Congress, has proceeded in the most seders°. ; "
torr manner, and with such: expedition as to only suchpower as ' was necessary end proper
warrent'the belief that they *will be ready for ,to e execution ospecific purposes, or, in to words, to retain as mach as poasible, consist
service early the coming spring. Important; as ; ently with those purposes, of the independent
this addition to our naval force is, it still re
' powers ofthe individual States. For objects of
mains inadequate to the contingent exigencies
of the protection of the extensive sea coast an d cosmos defence and security, they entrusted
vastto the general government certain carefully
commercial interests of the United States.
In view of this fact and of the acknowledged
defined functions, leaving all others as the del
_
wisdow ofthe policy of a gradual and system s -
eg_aLed ti r e i s ghts of the Berenice independent soy
tic increase of the navy, an appropriation is re- .''''' l4 "
Such is the constitutional theory of our goy.
commended for the construction of 6 steam :
sloops of war. , ernment„ the practical observance of which has
In regard to the steps taken in execution of earnedus, and us alone, among modern repub
lite, through nearly three genenations of time
the act of Congress to promote the efficiency
without the coat of one drop of blood shed in
the navy, it /8 annecessary for rue to say more d '
than to expreis'entire `ectricuriericef in the obi i c t iv in il as war e. . ati li od Yld .o %fivi i :d do om ntis a n n ti d c s o ii n e c c e essf rtof u n u e v tio o p i i
servations on that subject presented by the sec
the battle-field'agninst foreign . foes, has tilor a .
rotary in his report.
test the' feeble Colonies into - nwerful State
roar eerier
and PproAtes,
has raised our industrial productions, and
'lf will' he 'perceived, •by the report: of the .
our commerce which transports them to the
Postmaster General, that the grosti expenditure
level of the richest and greatest: nations of En
of the department for the last fiscal year was
nine million nine hundredandsixty-eight thou- . r°
institutions tllttliCir°'' And the admirable adaptation
cotnbining adaptation of onr
eand'thieir hundred eh& fortj-two dollars, and • pol itical
toCareelf-governinnt*ith aggregate strength',
the gross receipts seven million three hundred
; hes eitablishid tho 'practicability of a govern- ,
and forty-two thousand one hundred and thirty
six dollars, making an' excess of exphnditnee , meat like ours 'tu covera!eontinent with eon ,
over receipts of two million six hundred and' m
e a t like
States ' ' "
twerity 7 six tliousand s tre hundred and six dol. I The Congress of the United State* is,: in
lars ; and that the cost of mail "Evanspoittition i effect , that:Congress-11ff sovereignties, .which
during that year ivn'sirc'hundred nd - seventy good men in the• Old World , have toingb,t for.
four thousand utile • handfed and fifty-two dol. but could never attain, and whieh imparts'to
Litt greaterfhan the ',Steins year. exemption Iran the trintahle
'Mich of the heavy expenditures,. to which leagees'for common skin, from the watt the
the Treasury:is thus subjected, to be aseri! , mutual ineesinns. end' Vague aspirations after
bed to the largequantity of printed- nuttier cow; the balance of power,' which convulse from
vend bytlac tn4its,either franlced, or liable t 4 ; time m. time thesoverninentaofilumpe. Our
no . posittge by law, or tri very low rates cif pos. co-operative action rests in, the eundistone of,
tape compared' witli that Charged On letters' ; r permanent confederation. ,preieribed „ hy„ the
acid to this great cost 'of mail service ou rail- Constitution. , Our balance of powr Is in the!
roads and by ocean steamers. The sums; separate reserved rfghts of 'the ''S'ailes, arid
tions of the Postmaster General on , thusubject ;their eral represontatidn in the Senate. Thu
deserve the consideration of Congress.l Independent 'sovereignty in every one of the
. , ingama. IStates, with its reserved rights of local sett.'
The report of the Secretary of the Interior
will engage your attention, as well for the use
ful suggestions it contains, as for 'the interest
and importance of the subjects to which they
refer.
The aggregate amount of public. land sold
during . the last fiscal year, located with milita
ry scrip or land warrants, taken up under
grants for roads, and'aelected us swamp lands
by Stites, is twenty-four million five hundred
and fifty-seven thousand four hundred and
nine acres ; of which the portion sold was fif
teen million seven hundred and twenty-nine
thousand five hundred and twenty-four acres,
yielding in receipts the sum of eleven million
four hundred and eighty-five thousand three
hundred and eighty dollars. In the same pe
riod of dine, eight million seven hundred and
twenty-three thousand eight hundred and fitly
four acres have been surveyed; but, in con
sideration
of the quantity already subject to
entry, no additional tracts have been brought
into market. •
The peculiar relation of the general govern
ment to the District of Columbia renders it
proper to commend to your care not only its
material, but also its moral interests, including
education, more especially in those parts of
the District outside of the citiosoflVashington
and Georgetown. . •
The commissionere appointed. to revise and
codify the hiwe of the District have made such
progress in the "perfcamince of their task as to
insure Wl' completion in the time preseribOd by
the act !of Congress. - • •'
Information has recently peen received, that
amputee of the settlements in the Territories
of Oregon and Washington is dia4urbed by hos-
Width' en the part of the Indians, with indica
films of extensive coinbinatiOns hi:sidle
character among the tribes'in that quatter, the'
more serious in their possible effect by: rumen
of the undetermined foreign interests existing
in those territories, to which your attention has
already been especially invited. Efficient
measures have been taken, which, it is believed
will restore quiet and afford protection to our
citizens.
In the territory of Kansas there have been
acts prejudicial to good order, but as yet none
have occcurred under circumstances to justify
the interposition of the federal executive.—
That could only be in case of obstruction to
federal law, or of organized resistence, to ter
ritorial law, assuming the character of„
rection,,which, if it should occurs it would be'
my duty promptly to overcome and siqipress.
I cherish the hope, however, that the 'occur
rence of any such untoward event will be pre
vented by the sound sense•of the people of the
territory,•who, byits organic Jaw, .possessing
the sl i ght to determine their own domestic in.
stitutions, are entitled, while deporting, them
selves peacefully, tb the free, exercise oc that
right, and must be protected in thibijoyment
on; Interference on 'the jt,irt bf 'the
titizinsiifaq Ofth'eatiited.' •,. .•
Thi k ioutherwhoundasy line alibis ..+Tertiteri.
bin arra ben rupsyed and iftlibthillad,
government R.-muted •to each by their co.rqual
; power in the. Senate, was the fundamental
condition of the Constitution. Vlt ithout it the
Union would never have existed. Howeviq
desirous, the , ager Slates might bead re.orga.
Martha government some to give to their pop
ulation its proportionate weight . In the nom.
mon Councils, they knew it was impossible,
unless th..y, conceded to the smaller ones au.
thority to exercise at least a negative, influence
on all the measures of the government, w bath.
er legislative or executive, through their equal
representation in the Senate. Indeed, the far
, ger States themselves could not have failed to
perceive, that the same power was equally ne.
ceassary to them. for the security of their own
domestic Interests against the egglegate force
of the general government. In a word, the
!original States went into this Fiermanent
! league on the agreedpremises, of exerting
their common strength for the defence of the
whole, and of all its parts ; but of utterly ex
-
abiding all capability of reciprocal aggression.
Each solemnly bound itself to all the others,
neither to undertake, nor permit, any encroach.
meats upon, or inturmeddling with another's
reserved rights.
Where it was deemed expedient, particular
rights of the States were expressil (guarantied
by the Constitution; but, in all tinny beside,
these rights, were guarded bfttie limibtlinti 'of
the poWers gninted, and by'exprees reliereation
of all powers not granted, in the compact'. of
'union; Thus' the great power of taxation was
limited to purposes of • common. defence, and
general, walling, excluding objects appertain
ing to the local legielation ofthe several Stales;
enti r titose purposes of general welfare and corn
,mcon defende vt'ere afterwards defined by 'spo
ol& enumeration;se being matters of cos
relation between the States lhemeelves, or be
twees them end foreign governments. , which,
because of their common and general nature,
could be left, to the separate control of each
State.
Of the circumstances of local condition, in
terest, and rights, in which 'a 'portion of the
States, constituting one great section of the
Union, differed from the reatond Iron another
section, the most important was the peculiar.
ity of a larger relative colored population in
the southern than in the northern States.
A population of this class, held in subjec
tion, existed in:neatly all the ,States, but Wail
More ntoneMus'and of snore serious edncern.
meat in: the South* than' in the'Ncirth, owed-
Count otriaturar differenoes or'olifintataid pt&
d notion ; and •it was foreseen that,. for the saws
reasons, while this population would diminish,
and, econer„or later, cease to exist, , in some
States, it, rpight,increaje; in others. The pe
cullii•Oheracier and inagnittide" or this title!?
tion of local rights, not in material 'relations
any, but still intne-in social ones, caused it
imenter Intti the 'speolil stipulatkits of the
; • ;%1•. . • ;
Hoe% 018411e'llal..119.TqW01; ad
4 0 41,14:1 1 1 2 0 1" 01 fattrAF00ti oit
sib; a hash that's 4'n-
.
Posed to it , was forbidden to ttinch this molar
in the sense' of 'pack or offence. it was placed
ender the generiT eafejitiata of the Union.
In the sense of defence Against either inn-
Mon or domestic villenee, like all other local
Interests of the several States. teach State
expressly'sfipulated, es well for Itself as for
each end all of its citizens, and every mitten
or . each Slate beam* solemnly boned by his
allegiance to' the Constitution, that any person
held to service or labor in one State, *seeping
into another, should not, in consequence °fatly '-''
law or regulation tjutreofs be dtecharged , kelp,
such service labor, but should tie delivered' '
up on claim of the patty to whom such set., -..
vice of labor might be due b' the laws of his
State. . 1
, l 'T ~ 1 V, ''l ',''' I it) "j
Thus, and : has onlY;by hi ieeltimeal gull
eleiny.eLoWlerosiobtsfetareryelionmoiselea
interference on the_ part of another,_ ;was 'the
.present frerif.NitirlielfrbiddritTuitalliliithird lilt*
fa ere and tranemitted to us; and by no other
miens Is -IV PildiliVilitkrbakrolltillifi one
.
%tale 'mien ItTreapeet.thelfrighteomflinothelii
aid - obtrusitmly intermaddleavrith ita,licad id...
toillitts—ii:e. pi:Mit:m.oS the Wes 7 amour trt ;I:
impose their institutions on liiii,ediere, .or re-;
fuse to 7fu IfillAmir, obligations. Id' theimr-me,
ant solddger , onited friendly Aimee, hlndlil•' .
Ittiaciadtinkitileones,l with littimcapaelly left of
1 common advantage, but ahuadant marmot In. ,•::
F, pt tomcat injury+ sod rmisehlef.-) , • .. .;
H i! pactically.• is Isimanftetird wbetheraggree, ,•
live interference between the States, or delllon , , , '
. e.rate'refneal datimPart• any, one titthem to
'et:imply . with constitutional obi igatione.,arise
, bees errooeonaconviiiitorr or blitid:pfejudieol
whether it he perpetrated by direction nr indi,
Tendon. 'in either ease, it iit full ofibniat and
of danger to the durability of the Union. ,
tiostrthretorim. anuetits'oe serreaV. '
Placed In the office of Oblef. . Magistrate as '
the elteeetint limit of the whole ementry.
bound to take ears that thelawe be faithfully •
"Zoomed, and 'apt . whilty enjoined by the Clan
atitution to wee inftinnition so Congress on
the stns of the Union, It vroold ,be :palpable
negleet.of duty on my pan to pail over a sue. '
sect like this, which, beyotad all linage at the
present time, vitally concerns • individual and
public security.
It ban been matter of painful regret to see
States, conspicuous for :hell services in foun
ding this republic,,and equally sharing its ad
vantages, 'disregard their constitutional obli
gations to it. Although conscious of their in-
ability to heel admitted and palpable social
evils of their own, and which are completely
within their jurisdiction, they serge in the
sirens's/. and hopeless undertaking of reform
ing the domestic institutions of other States
wholly beyond their control and authority. to
the vain pursuit of sods, by them entirely un
attaina6le, end whibb they may not legally at
tempt to compass. they peril the very exist
ence of the Constitution, and all the countless
benefits which it has conterred. While the
people of the Southern States confine their at
tention to their own entre, not presuming offs
ciou•ly to Intermeddle with the social institu
tion, of the Northern States, 'too many of the
inhabitants of the latter are penuanently orga
nised in associations to inflict injury on the
former, by wrongful *cis, which would be
cause of war as between foreign powers, and
only fail to beseech in ~or system, because
perpetrated under corer of the Union.
It is impoisible to present this enbjeot as
1 truth and the occasion require, without noticing
the teiteiated, but groundless, allegation, that
the South has persistently asserted claims and
I obtained advantages to the practical adminia
-1 tration of ,the general government, to the pre
! itches of the North. and in which the latter has -
acquiesced. That is, the States, which either
promote or tolerate attack. on the rights of
persons and of property in other States. to dis
guise their own injustice, pretend or imagine.
and constantly aver, that :hey, whose consti
tutional rights are thus ay eirmancally assailed ,
are themselves the aggressors. At the present
time, this imputed aggression, resting Our it
does, only in the vogue, declamatory charges
of political agitators, resolves itself into mis
apprehension, or misinterpretation, of the
principles and facts of the politeal orranita
' eon of the new Tetriarie, of the U. States,
What is the !ohm of history 1 When the
organization, which prostded. for the govern
ment of the territory northwest of The river
Ohio, end for us eventual tolidlvinion Imo
new States, was adopted in the ilonirriese of
the confederation, it is not to be anppo•ed that
thequestion of future relative nower,fte hetwern
the States whichremieed and those which did
not retain a numerous colored pnpula tion,Tica
ped notice. or Sailed rftitst,c,opettlered. And
yet the concesnion of that rest territory to the
interests and epinions of the northern fitat.k4,
axerritory now the 'sat of five among the lar
gest members °film Union, was, in great mea
sure, the act of the Btate or Virginia and of
the Smolt. ,
When Louisiana acquired by the triii
ted States, it was an acquisition not hose to the
North than to the South ; for while it was liet- .
portant to this nonntry at thsomettioof the liver
Mississippi to become the etopJrioni, of lite
country above it, 11011:50 it was even More im
portant to the whole Union to have that empo
rium ; and although the new province, Icy lea- .
sun of its imperfect settlement, was,mainly re
garded as on the gulf of Meeico, yet, in rain,
it extended to the opposite bous4ariest of toe
United. States, with far greater breadth above
than below, and was in teviiniy. as in every
thing else, orally at least, anaccession tithe
Northern States, it is mere deluilion and pre
judice. therefore, to 'peek of Louisiana as RO•
tiniaition in the, special ietereit of the Son th.
The patriotic and just teen who partictpatrd
in that sot fluent:led by, tatatisiee far
above all semitone we ANN i It was, in truth,
the great event which, by completing for is
the valley of the Missiesippi, with coin:tier:int
access to the Gulf of Mexico, imparted unity &
strength to the whole Confederation, and at
tached Together by indissoluble ties the East
and the West as well as the North, and the
South.
As to Florida, that was but the transfer by
Spain to the United States of territory on tho
east side of the river Mississippi, in saehenge
for large territory which the United States
transferred to Spain un the west side of that
river, as the entire diplomatic history of the
transaction serves to demonstrate. Moreover.
it was an acquisition demanded by the coin.
mercial interests end the security of the whole
Union.
In the mean time the people of the United
States had grown op to a proper conscioueneve
of their strength. and in a brief Imagist with
France, and in a second serious war • with
'Grist Britain, they bad shaken off all which
remained iof undue reverence for Europe, and
eineriptd front tha atmosphere of those trans.
atlentis . influences which surrounded the in
ratit-litietiblitiV tied , hita begurti tci , t a in: abatis at
tention toViiertillithdhystemitio development
of the internal resources of the Union. '1
Among the'etraniecent controversies of' that pe
rind, the moat conepicioue was the question sting.
elation by Congress of the social condition of the
future States to be founded in the Territory of
Louisiana.
Ti m ordinance for the government of the teryito- •
ry north-west of the rifer Ohio had contained a
proYtt inn which prohibited the use of smile la
bor therein, subject to the condition of the extra•
dilion of fugitives from service due in any , other
part of the United States. Subsequently to the
adoption of the Constitution this provision 'caved
to remain ass law, for its operation as such wee ab.
aolutely superseded by the Constitution. But the
recollection of the fact excited the zeal of social
propagandism in some sections of the. Confedera
tion ; and, when a second State. that of Missouri.
came to be formed in the Territory of Ltratijans.
proposition wee made to extend to the letter Tem.
tory the restriction originally applied to Ihr conntxy
situated between the mere Ohio , and iltiesiseippt.
.
Most questionableUs'wae'this proposition
in all its conetitut lona] relations, nevertheless
it • reeeired'itho emotion 'of ..oongreitt,hwith
some alight modificatione of line. to 'sage the
eri sting Tights .of: the intended. n Istr , litstat. It
was reluctantly acquieved in by , 0114thern
Slides se a eacrifioem the pause °gamin
and of the Union, cot only of theilrightijetipu
lated by' treaty of Louisiana; but' the
prinoiple,of'e;Uniting , the' Stetetriguar.
aided hi the Ctirettrationv l .lVPiratLtseeived
by the northern States with an aud eleeas.
ful, condemnation and opmplaint, Weans. it
did na bdpiaidi II! irhioft %boy:WI Ithotingly
dertliOctid I , llvlntpaitiod*touo4/4WI
of l iolitlas took At, 149,1111101"114
book, stahlo4. epee to mad. like any taw
act of doubtad constitutionality, subject to be
pronouneesd . moll Old Void by the courts of law,
sad ramming itO 'possible efficacy to contro l
the rights• of the States, which might thereat'.
tee be organised out of any part of the origi
nal territoi7 of Louisiana.
In all this, limey aggression there were, any
ineuvitiee upon preexisting righte, to which
porno" 'gibe Union s i rliz justly chargeable I
This 'imittroversy away with the oc
easios,reethieg sure ving it save the dormant
letter the itatute.
But, long Menne*, when by the proposed
eccessiotief the republic of Texas, the United
&Mee tieis to take their lint step in territorial
greatness, a similar oontingenoy occurred, and
became the occasion for systematised attempts
to ledriene 41 the domestic affairs of one see
tion Of thi Unfelt, in defiance of their rights as
Stet* lied of,
,the stipulations of the constitn
tion.'Theife attempts assumed a practical
'Weediest; In the shape of persevering endow
ors, by. saute of the representatives, in both
HouiM of Congest's, to deprive the Southern
Statei Of the seppoeed benefit of the provinces
of the authorising the organisation of the
State or Missouri. ,
Ilift the good sense of the people, and: the
vital,ll,nee of the constitution, triumphed over I
sectional prejudice and the political errors of
the day,' dad the 'State of Texas returned to
the 17Olori as Ifni wee, with social 'institutions
which her people bit chosen. for themselves,
~ 1k with express agreement, by the rsennexing
not, that she ehould be susceptible of subdlvi
*ioninto a plurality of States. • • ~. •
Whatever advantage the interests of the
Southern State; its such ; gained by this, were
ar inferior in results, tanker unfolded in the
,progreu of Bine, to those which sprang from
tprevitais concessions made by the South.
To every thoughtful friend of the Union—
Ito the true levers of their country—to all who
Bonged and labored for the-full success of this
reat e:Fperitnent of republican institutions—
et wee tease of gratulation that such an op
portunity had occurred to illustrate our ad
sanding power on this continent, and to fur
nish to the world additional assurance of the
etrength and stability of the nontaitution.—
Who would wish to see.Flarida still a Euro
-peen eolony f Who world rejoice to hail
Teams as a lone star, inet.it , i of ono in the gal-
say of States'} Whn d ex net appreciate the
incalculable benefits or the acquisition of
%Louisiana? And yet narrow views and see
,tional purposes would inevitably have exclu
.ded them front the Union.
But another struggle on the same point on
-smelt when our victorious armlets returned
from Mexico, and it devolved on Congress to
provide fur the territories acquired by the
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The great re
lations of the subject bad now become distinot
•anfi clear to the perception of the public mind,
whtelt appreciated the evils of sectional con
ttrtmirty upon the question of the admission of
mow States. In that crisis intense solicitude
.pervadsod the nation. But the patriotic impul
'eel of lho , PoPolor heart, guided by the admon
itory advice of the Father of his Country, rose
superior to all the difficulties of the incorpon,
lien of a newomtpine into the Union. In the
.counsels ot'Congrose there was manifested ex
treme antagonism of opinion and action be
tween some representatives, who Fought, by
the abusive and unconstituUttual employment
•of the legislative powers of the Govototooot t to
;interfere in theonndition of the inchoate State",
end to impose their own social theorise upon
the latter, and other representative*. who re
pelled the interpomition of the General Govern
ment in this revect, and maintained the self
.constituting rights of the States. In truth,
•the thing attempted wee, in form alone, action
-of the General Government, while in reality it
was the .endeavor, by the abuse of legislative
power, to force the ideas of internal policy en
.tertained inparticular States upon allied inde-
IpentientOtittes. Once more the Cctnatitatien
land the Uninn {triumphed signally. The new
/territories; were mg/united without restriction
.ou the disputed ;point, and were thus left to
judge in that particular for themselves ; and
the sense of constitutional faith itroved Tick ,
sons enough in Congrees not' only, to acorn
,plitth this primary caned. but also the inciden
tal and hardly leas important one 011 16 ifnend
dog the` previsions of thestatute fee the extra.
,dition of fugitives from service as to place that
%public duty under the,safeguard of the General
-Government, arid thus relieve it from obstacles
.raised up by the legislation of someof the States.
Vain doeleuration regarding the provisions of
law for the extmaition of fugitives from ser
vice, with eor.rtiontil episodes of frantic effort
to obetruut theiraxecution by riot and murder,
.continued, ,for a brief time. to smite° certain
localities. Vert tires:rue princiPle. of itsving
'each State and Territory tniegulate its own
amra of labor according to its own sense of
Tight rind Impediency, had acquired fast hold
.of the public judgment to such a degree that,
by oommeneonsent, it was observed in the or.
4anisatlon of the Territory of Washington.
When. more recently. it became requisite to
organise the Territories of Nebraska and Kan
sa% .it was the natural and legitimate, if nut
the • inevitable oonsequentm of previous events
and lesitdation, that the same great and sound
prinimple, which had already been applied to
Ptah ..a New Mexico shotild be applied to
them4--that they should nand exempt frum
the restrictions proposed in the act relativ e
to the. State of Missouri.
These restrictions wore in the estimation of
m.i ny, thoughtful men, null from the beginning,
rinautlicalisqd.4 titd Ounstitution, ountrery to
the ereity /stipuldiens for the teession of
.Leiriaiana, and reconsistent with the equality
bf the States; • ,
They, hitoktiw stripped of all morel author
ity, by persistent efforts to procure their indi
erect. zepeallbough contradictory en/topmasts.
They had beiiii practicully abrogated by the
irgislstion atteuding• tiro or t onization of Utah.
New Mexico and Washington. If any vitali•
ty remaitied in them, it world have been taken
sway, in effect, by the new territorial eats,
in the form originally proposed to the Senate
:at the first session of the last Congress. It
, was manly and ins,epuous, as well as patriotic
•and just, to do this directly and plainly, and
thus relieve the statute-book of en act, which
might be dimmable future injury. but of no
possible future benefit ;. and the measure of
tits.repeal was the final otmenmmation and com
plete, recognition of the principle, that no por
tion of the United States shall undertake,
gurongh alautnpticin of the powers of the
general government, to dictate the amid insti
tutions of any other portion.
The sot" and effort of the language of m
ired were not left In doubt It was declared,
in tartmi; to be the "true intent and meaning
of this aet not .
to, legislate - slavery into any
ritory orState, nor to exclude it th e refrom,
lit - to bilge the people thereof perfectly fre
i ' le Ihrol end regulate: ,their domestic matitu.
v,,leits in their 'own wed, subject"only to the
Istieutioo of the United States." •
. , .10. me a sure could not be ,withstood upon ,
IV meritialorie. It was attacked with vie.
lehoet on theta* and delusive 'pretext, that it
• leeostriAtted a breach of faith. Never wee tib. I
AtediCO more utterly destitute of subefintial
jeitileathei. When, befort,was it imagined
itT *Able men, that a regulative or de@ere
ern statute ; whether enacted ten or forty years
talso44 repealable,-that an act of °engross is
;'above;:the constitution ? If, indeed, 'there
were in the facts any cause to impute bad
' faith it would attach to those only, who have
nev from the time of the enactment
~.,(lithe, , 'dive provision to the present day,
erN5
. • *idea° ce and to Condemn it; whci have con
, ii4ohtly : xefu to 'complete it by needful •
u .. iuppleakilitlFry legislation ; who have them
', solves igain and again attempted itavepeal by
likaseectmeot othicompatible provieionsi and
• xarllel Ai theinevitable Tesetioniry , e ff ect of
• thew. owe *limo° oh the • subject, Awakened
/4'6m:l'oi/to peroeption of the true consti
tutional principle, of leiving the matter in.
. o ,lNi* to, the dieoretion of the people of the
Perotlyeextstisig or Incipient S tates. - 7
,
-1114$50tpritended that this principle, or any
- other, precludes the possibility of °vile in
. ..disturbed as political action is liable
baby human passions. No form of govera.
roe,
lit'sliompt from its oonvanielleea i bat in
- aft—
_ - • . - 4 1 .. vernal& of the *beset and,
0 RP* „ enrols% t opt Wltt
Matto! it conircil, bre - r m ,Prt,lWigi
d3i 4 :ft.klit3 • I
territory. They au mot So he ehugsd,.to
the great principle of popular sovereign
.on the contrary, they disappear before
the intelligence and patriotism of the people;
exerting through the ballot-box their peaoeful
and silent but arreeistible power.
If the friends of the Constitution are to have
another struggle, its enemies could not present
more acceptable issue, than that of a State,
whose constitution clearly embraces "a trspub•
Haan form of government," being excluded
from the Union because its domestic Institu
tions may not in all respects comport with , the
Ideas of what is wise and expedient entertain
ed in some other State. Fresh from ground
less imputations of breach of faith against
others, men will commence the 'agitallon of
this new question with indubitable violation
of, an express compact between the indepen
dent sovereign powers of the United States
and of the republic of Texas, u well as of the
older and equally solemn compacts, which as
sure the equality of all the States.
, But. deplorable as would be such a viols
tion of compact initselt and in all its direct
consequences, Shale the very least of the evils
! involved. When sectional agitators shall
have succeeded in forcing on this issue, can
Abele pretensions fail to be met by counter
1 pretensions? •Will not different States be
compelled respectfiely to meet extremes iith
• extremes l And, if either extreme carry its
poi 11 , what is, that so far forth but diesolu
•ticie of the Union? If a new State, formed
from the Territory of the United States, be
absolutely excluded from admission therein,
that fact of itself constitute' the disrup
tion of Union between it and the other States.
But the process of dissolution could not stop
there. Would not a sectional decision, produ
cing such result by a majority of votes either
northern or seuthern, of necessity drive out
the oppressed , and aggrieved' minority, and
place in presenoe of each other two Irv:send
lably hostile confederations ?
It is , necessary to speak thus plainly of pro
jects, the offspring of that sectional agitation
now prevailing In some of the States, which
are as impracticable as they are' unconstitu
tional, and which if persevered in, must,and
will end calamitously. It is either disunion
and civil war, or it is mere angry, idle, aim
less disturbance of public peace and tranquil-1
ity. Disunion for what? If the
. passionate'
rage of fanaticism and partisan spirit did not
force the fact upon our attention, it would be
difficult to believe, tbst, any (considerable por
tion of the people of this oulightenod country
could have so surrendered themselves to a fa
widest devotion to the supposed interests of
the relatively few Africans in the United
States, as totally to abandon and disregard the
interests of the twenty-five 'pillions of Ameri
cans, to trample under foot the injunctions of
moral and coneututional obligation,—and tv
engage in plans of vindictive hostility against
those who are associated with them in the en
joy ment of the common heritage of our nation
al institutions.
Nor is its hostility , against their fellow chi
tens of one section of the Union alone. The
interests, the honor, the duty, theepeace, and
the prosperity of the people of all sections are
equally involved and imperilled in thief qua.-
thin, And are,patriotiu men in any part of
the Union prepared, on such an issue, thus
madly to invite all the consequences pf the
forfeiture of their constitutional engagements?
It is impossible. The storm of phrensy and
faction mast inevitably dash itself in vain
against the unshaken rock of the constitution.
I shall never doubt it. I know that the Union
is stronger a thousand times than all the wild
and chimerical scenes of social change,
which are cenereteda one after another, in the
unstable minds of visionary sophists and inte
rested agitators. I rely confidently on the pa
triotiem of the people, on the dignity sad self
respect of the States; on the wie4om pf ' Con
gems; and iboveall, on thecontin'uedgracitus
favor of Almighty God, to maintain, against
all, enemies, whether at home or abroad, the
unctity orthO Coballtiititm And the integrity
of the Union.
FRANKLIN PIERCE
Wasaixorom, IMm,ater 31, 1855.
LAMP? FROM Eueora.-.-The tietWOr .
PIM& has arrived with English &leek)
Dec. 15. ' The only event of special
moment is' the fall o( Kars, a Turkish
position in Asia of some moment. The
defence' has been erintinned tinder, great
disadvantages throughout a long and vigor.
flue siege, in which the Russians have
more than once been repulsedin deliberate
assaults upon 'the place. It has at length
surrendered under starvation, and Russia
ihne deft, mn important conquest, the in
fluence of which will be diffused throught
Asia, abd especially among the several
nations which are poised on an unsteady
neutrality and strongly disposed towards
the Czar. A portion of the English press
does not disguise the importance of Rus
sian success in the fall of Kars; while the
Times, without affecting indifference. is
not disposed to concede any advantages
to Russia for a future diplomatic basis.
There can be no doubt that the event is
of signal advantage to Russia. and will
Warmly improved. in spite of any efforts
on the part of the Allies to counteract it.
The rumors of peace are extremely
variant and uncertain, though it as appar
ent that a very general desire pervades
European society for the realisation of it
At the same tithe preparations are iii prog
ress on all sides Inr the campaign of the
ensuing year. The fall of Kars will
probably lead to some new demonstration
on the part of Russia, but it is , hardly to
be doubted the; they will be of an p active
and determined purpose in Asia.
HORRIBLIC BRUTALITT.-. The Cineina
ii (Ohio) Commercial, of the 28th ultimo,
states that tiro young men.of i•respeetable
and wealthy . families" Were on a drunken
spree at the Patitcr House, in Maysville,
Ky., on the night of Thanksgiving . in
that State, and being in want of liquor
poured some eamphen over the hair and
whiskers of e colored waiter, wheal they
found asleep, and then set fire to it
mot fellow lived for two weeks in
extreme torture and then died, but no
steps have as yet been taken in have a le
gal inveatigitionota the young gentiles en
have agreed
,to,fay Mr. Ball, the owner,
,foe,tho lose of his servant 81400. "
'Thirr or rsignayLvagnA.—The
deicing' American publishes a' statemen t
shorting the COrittiiion• of the indebtedness
13titeat'PenmOvaniii, at the albite
ofthe,fiscal ,year ,on the 30th of Nevem
totatindebtednees standout
*41,067,004,i% leis 0423/837. 90 .intihi
sinking food—leaving the actual indebted..
!MD $40.644454 "
BIINNSITS or . Isintuaaitorcallloses
persons .talk very loudly concernimeithe
"benefits of immigration." There are
Iwo'sides; it is said, to every story:—
Let us look a moment at that other side.
Within the last ten yesrs Mansachnsetts
has had on. charge 119,023 paupers. Of
this number ninety thousand eight hun
dred and:thirty-four were foreigners.—
The whole cost for relieving and support
ing,these paupers, during ten years; (in•
cludhig the interest on alms hogs's) wee
four mifieni one hundred and seventeen
thousand two hundred and filly-one dol
lars and sixty-three cents.
Late news , from Texas reveals the
chocking fact that during the let .few,
years, the sufferings ol some of the In
dians of that :State have been such. tho
WOlllllB bus had,. to kill their infant
ea ilk aft to out
Till STIR IN 111111111 e
ars :C. - j.
CETTYS BMW.
TharidaitEteaingt Jan., 3,' 1,q56/
I hope we may. find amat i metwo in fn
of shielding Ouroelres from If moire talbehee;
- 7 politie4 comhserclA dr in form it
may be attempta. I wish there were an
°minor fire betlrtatapas amithepla wstrld.
Jefferson.
The nail Maid midis. Cattail*:
0:7 4 0i Tuesday itut‘thirbrard of Dirbet 4
ore oft>le liiiiiroadtioiiiAtited
lawitt & TATtow„, for, t l itst construction of
the road from dettysburg tt;lt cover,.
Oxford. We understand -that sepsrate
propoiltioni" tiOeirPeoniiiiiitred for,
grading and hridging the Wod;and s attoth
er for laying tha
these Proposithins are` , imsbraced in i sc i i.
rate coitracts: . ' , •
The i first 'contract oevers:tite grading
and • bridging of ;the road,' for which the
°°mPFkr Pl* .105, 000-- 1 8 6. 000
and $20,000 in emit.'
The.seeond vont:net clovers the hiyiturnt
the entire superstructure. irioludiog cross
ties, iron, switches, turn-only;lre. !toe
this the company are to pay slBB,ooo—
Contractors agreeing to taking one
half of this amount in 7 per cent. bonds
of the company at a discount of 25 per
oeut. In this contract the iron was put
at $7O per ton. Should Railroad .Iron
fall in the mean time, the Company will
have the benefit of tho fall ; should it rise
in value, the contractors are to be allowed
for the increased cost above 870.
Of course, there are a number of minor
matters entering into the contract. which
we could not state, without extending this
article toan unnecessary length. The fore.
going, however, are the'tnain features, and
will probably satisfy public curiosity.
The work oa the road is to commence
in a few weeks, as soon as some prelimi
nary arrangements as to the route, re
leases, ko., are completed.
President's Message
SirWe issue the ~ S tar" a day earlier
than usual, in order to lay the message of
the President before our readers. It
reached us unexpectedly, and doubtless
will take most of our readers by surprise.,
We presume the message, will be generally
read, and therefore an abstract of its.con=
tents ii hardly necessary: " - Probably the
most marked feature in the message is the
dm allusion to ourdisturbedlelations with
gilielit4. arising out of Central Atierican
affai re. The President takes strong groOd l
and does not seem to , lid assured 'chat the
Matter in controversy will' be settled 'with.
out serious difficulty. Feeling)teenlY the
force of adverse poptibr orifolcin against
thoAdosinistrntion,,in ponstquepee „of the
pillage thi, katiisiNeltratiis huh
President‘ devotee large portion - ofthe
message to an elaborate discussion of the
Slavery question, and endearors to ripit
cite, himself and his Southern allies front
the charge of a breach of faith in the re.
peal of the Missouri Compromise.
Goveiver ) s Meninx..
11:7•We received& copy of Gee. Poi.-
Loon's message last evening, but in .con
sequence of the space occupied by the
President's message in today's issue, we
must defer the publication of the former
until next, week. It is an able document,
and creditable to the State Administration.
The Governor opens with a reference to the
blessing& with which Provideoce has crown
ed the past year, and passes on to a de
tailed exposition of the Finances of the
State. Tho receipts during the past year,
from all sources, amount to $5,890374.-
a ; ordinary expenses. including interest
on public debt, 84,188,512 28—excess of
receipts over ordinary expenditures, $l,-
260,961 83. The interest due on the
funded debt of the Commonwealth in
February and August last was promptly
paid, and the interest due next mouth will
be paid from funds now in the Treasury.
The Governor complains of the. reek
.
' less expenditure and mismanagement on
the public works, and especially on the
North Branch Canal and the ' Portage
Railroad. The appropriations .to these
two improvements have ready exceeded
the original estimated cost of completion by
•751,840:52 and neither of them yet
finished -With such evidences of misman
agement, the Governor is more than 'ever
impressed with a conviction that the,'Pnb
lio Works Ought:to be sold.
The Legislature iseujoined: tit,' he very
guarded in its legislation foe bank& great
log' charters only where imperiously de
mended by the' wants of the cottrinunity '
a
'Appropriatione to tke Ir:inei!tre, 1;11t
h
§eboel,,kfo4ee .oi liofuge. pAsts.o p
' b
4 4 7.1 0 m); 83i 11 4 itTillii, 4°l AT! room"
mendeif.
The tioeeioti "piitertk 1!; diielk ' on 'et
' l lo, ll t tenth As otie ( If th, m 2 c'S, PlarS um t
institutions. in 11w State, and deftritiag , the
! 1 601111614 Ogre ot die legialaturc
The evils of intamperenop denuidlegi
- • . 7 t"
Wei ana restrantog sots, and whatever
maY, lOsik l 4 l of 4he tai of
,last.eession, or whatever the propriety
of% itd modification, the Governor does
not tbin)e' !list . Illy tientit'; to the license
system hiOpsfatien vier to that act is de
sirable.; He signed the liw of last session
because the Representatives of the plop's
enacted it, and ,not ,hopstute, he thotight it
the .inizakt ' kf she pro.
sent Legislature see fit .to-modify th'a lees.
!store. of last •winter, the Governor Still
give his ofileini f sanotion to ao q jadiehas
i.i :;1.:. ?:
Wrenn Wadilnto&
Ntletkiitimit"Wititliefeattill
%Radom,. A : anisber GI • 104 2 41 1 ,
Mons* tiara boss tau dsriog lAte.past
week,- 'without, however, • any material
change Ott release . strength' 'of patties.
Mr. &tabo r on semi . hal! *mu. 4 1 194 1 4
el but two at three loam ,of an election.
Indeed, he twice received., majority olthe
votes given daring Abe. 0114 of
. the roll
but before the' resort , t
ntinntlinvd, in
both cesesollaral, inc/ hers of the 9P.P?'
sitiOu , , came lecnrt(o4: thou. into,
AijeatiNr an election.- •,.. ..I? • • ; I .: 1 1
Oa itonOikjithopinildinti withcmt wait.
„nunil 4
at Message, occaiihdfdg bo g
ii,theAltisto it wan read tnthOut oppOsi•
• ; 'tiiiither ifone4 :4 niMi!SirprdtiiiMett
sad, stormy .r dohsts,Amfased hlve tlia.
Mange keit! bi'vt 0146 f 1,26 to 87•. Thh
grouts:Chain' bi t . &V Majtitigy 6 1 ,60 the:
President, ' , in • lioladng , tits usage. which '
existed from the organisation ' , Of the gov.
.ernment to the 'present former
Ptetidents, tad sending hlimoi.vage be
fore'Congress was prepared. to •vcoeive it,
had not only . committed au 'uncalled•for
innovation upon the tong, settled practice
of the Government,• but evinced n gross
went of courtesy to, the';MOuse 'cf
seutatives. After refusing to allow the
message to be read. the -House adjourned
over to Wednesday. ;''' r . ', , •
In the Senate, after the tending , of the
message, an interesting debateaprting op
in regard to the Clayton and &User , trea
ty and Central American itifstrs. Mr.
Clayton, who negotiated the treaty in goes
lion, strongly endorsed, the construction of
the treaty by our Government, and de
nounced what he regarded .the evasive,
shut/ling policy of Great Britain. Messrs.
Cass, Weller, Toombs and Seward follow
ed with similar views—the latter announ
cing that he was prepared to stand up and
support the Clayton and Battier treaty,
and if need be, if the British govefhment
could not be held to that treaty, he was
ready to. go further. He was ready for
the assertion and practical maintenance of
the Monroe doctrine.
7' Sheriff THOMAS advertises for sale,
on Saturday the 19th inst., at 1 o'clock,
P. M., at the Court House. in Gettys
burg, the following properties : A Firm,
the ;property of John Keller, situate in
Straban township, containing 189 sores ;
and a lot of ground, containing 2 acres,
situate in 'Berwick 4ownship i , the property
of butt C p Thothas. Alao, , Ctriliday the'
It3ih inst., the Houaii cif:0810r Hiide•'
breed, in Petersburg, (.1% BO a tract of
land, situate in Winton) townthip, eno;
kinking 10, aores,:-misea IS t 64 property .
of Geo. W.'Fiekle. •
IrrOn one find! page sidl be found the
details Ole "tragedi at New Raven. Colt=
neetOßPOtthPP lll3 l , 99, PikisMitt#,S4,l* l *
abutted withhornft lOoricytaX the days
'Cotton Mather. Tho , parties *re yet- its
jail, and gipend'llitir timein prayer.' They
seem t9f96114 timwhohs,psoirrAngis thus
fai
Tke,PrPh9lCdsprofeasei to PaVe
a revelation from God every night. .
FRO, KANSAS.—There haTe been
scan 'fresh' difficulties in Kansono.. 164-
tee frem :Westport of the 18th' mate
that on the day set apart by the Free State
men to vote upon the adoption of the new
c ons titution, the border ruffians from
Idissouri, crossed over and Mobbed various
voting places along
,the river. A large
mob destroyed the ballot boxes at Leaven
worth and maltreated the jddges'of the
election, burning down the hidings in
which the polls were held. 'nu Leaven
worth ' penPle 'have to iinitate their
Lawrence brethren—supply themeoloes
with Sharpe's riffles.
PAYMENT BY STAMPS:--It should
be remembered hereafter that the postage
on all letters intended fir any place in
the United States must he prepaid by
stamps or stamped tiatidopet; an mon
ey will hereafter be received ...the win
dew of the postoffice in payment of postage.
This is the law of Congress, wbieit 'took of
on Tuesday last. Letters to foreign
countries can be sent as usual, and the
postage on newspapers and the mode of
payment remain unchanged.
KrflOil. JAM E! HEPBURN, formerly
President Judge of the Cumberland Dui
trio4inthis State. and well known through
out the Comroomwealthu an eminent Jur
ist. died at Pittsbmg, a fordeys ago.—
Re was io , that city attending to his duties
as State Reporter of the Deobiions 'of the
Supreme Court.
lICTROPSIM PICIMAS Q.
RIM sold; tit public sale, on Friday, !sit.
•
t he I proiertyiadjohtlng jas.
_A. Thompson,
on Chaniberslotrl street, for 111526- 7 Ro
n Trak puroliaser.
OtrThe New tear mime, in pretty sharp
ly—the mittelitisiniiiingiailt below se
ro at sunrise. The-sleighing has been
)ci 3
•"'' IFiroisi lisierlialburip..•
`The State:Legitlbws' met Ira Tneedef,la
tikOrttni'aPpearingin botti Hours. The An.
ti•Anterittett canons eandidittes 55i' Spikier
sera il e atea l a ilia Senate and Annie 'on erl'lt,
le the Senate the vote for Speaker
Wm, M. Platt, (Lico,) • ; • , 11 7
J. C. Fleniken, (Amer.) 5
- Mr. Purr is, frozn; , W : Tefah44432
on taking the their I , de a'
Henke, Mr. WettorriettlPhtlikkapide
titantyi was elected Speeiter, by thitiollowing
;11 c. •
litchudß.vll2,lUey'
„
US-our shuts ars 55e,114% up” ropsost
and to Wis. Ems ? & bib: fitly ropes of th•
" '! • 4
',1:1• .14 !/
4 01 tr'
Sheriff's Sale,.
itetigtotee Oenlees fee the meet
- -
. . _
JiastioCeriart Moseek.,--No Services.
Christ. OlareAilmilstraniY4ieniCell Julius
moving, Rev. Dr. Knuth.
Alta Mord, (Ltrthemn.)—Services
An the morning and 'evening, Rev. R. Hill. ,
Afethodiii Episcopal Chterch.—Uncertain.
'Ciertrtan Rsformed Church.--Services in the
morning (Garman) and Evening, Rev. Jacob
Ziegler.
itosoesals Esforesed Church.—No s erv ices.
Catholic Mott —No services.
The ftayer,Vaeling of the Presbyterian,
German Reformed, and the two Lutheran
churches is held every Wednesday evening;
Methodist, Thursday evening.
• ,Ctigidßa COVNTY,.—A colored child
csiout four yenrs old. was trurned to death
near Unionville on Thursday last. The
other had gone ton neighbor's to work
sing the child in question and another
one a year or two older at home. On re.
Writing in the evening, she found the body
of
,the child, with the clothes entirely
tern off, and quite dead.' It appeared
that the widow was produced by a spark
trim the stove setting fire to the child's
clothing.
, The following advertisement appeared
ill furbish paper : "Wheress, John gall
has fraudently taken several artioles of
wearing 'apparel without my knowledge,
this is therefore to lateral him that if he
does not forthwiih return the same, his
name shall bt made public."
SIDIATOR CLAYTON. in tndrar to a re
quest that he would allow his name to go
before the Ilmerielln Coormlioja 1 . 1241 '
dictate frethi i Nettdeney, say* shat he
prefers,his present poeitiiiq and taspeet-,
fully declines 'being * iisidered as' ash
didata,
~ •
Pttot.nrto.-.-There is •in ‘old colored
wornin lising'in Upper Oxford township.
Chester county. Who hai had the felicity
to present her happy bushind. with i t em.
ty eight children, in twenty three years.
Z7'Tbe "Moine TAW," enacted in the
protium of flew Brunswiel, hat bien ap
'proved by the Queen of England.
HOLLOWATNI AND PILL. Cure
sty dismiss of the Shin of the longest .standing.
William Frederick Anderson. of Yadkin, south
Carolina, suffered a long time nom eruptions on
the skin. his fare, anus and legs were covered
with little pustules end sores as seorbutic na:
tore,.—for the cure of this unsightly and painful
disfigurement, he tried a variety of remedies
which felled to benefit him. At lest he tried Hol
loway% Ointment and Pills, which can awn pro.
duced a favorable change, and by a few weeks'
pereerversnce with theft remedies. he was corn.
pliantly cured. This famous Ointment will cure
ulcer* and.old wounds of twenty years 'tending.
1111%,..Franklin's name has been onimortalin ,
ed in various ways, and it is cunnectetiswith
numerous Popular Institutions. Among the
most popular places with which it is associated
is Attnktin,Pkwe, Philadelphia, on the cor.
nue of which t „ N0..11 Chesnut S treet ,
great popular ClOthing Estiblishnicnt of Rocs:
KILL 1 Wiindri, the largest, cheaposti best
WA most fashionable in the counti-y. •'- ' •
-
uA tr~inune ~MIRu ET.
BAISEMORL . Jaw 2,1866,,
1?1,01:1R.--Sali:Li'of 150 .bble. Howard eine - t
at. sB '
, 50 closing withtrather inortrbulers than
, 'Hyo Flour+-1510, bal. it SO
C i ao ,Moikli m . , quote, acooiaak. $3 1;14 (4,
Ai. • , )
GRATAI e r-#44 7 -Bales ofehoice white at ,
12 10 good to tarie do: at' $1 95Et$2 00.—
good t 4 at $1 88E02 It
at? td qualiti. Coro - =aides of good white and ,
yellow at.13(76 centa-linibrior ttaalities at
00(470 CO* per totahol. Oat—go o d to pins
35038 peate , 44194 qeoti
p .. .yirsois `1 22 per os,,
lllFErrs.74Steen realaii of pritooold and iteW
C to' 4;41 'it $9" ?.15(01119 • 30: "fiiheathY at $3
(Ms3 ( 2s,,litid Flak:teed titsl9scslo2lter !Wish=
• WO' P.ll
. ; it •
You, Tusidaytaisin,l2silBs6..i:
FLOURi , ‘IPbblo from :$3 50
WILEATAO bufiU(llll k,86 to 2 ,00
RYS, rat, , 112
COli.f• 60
TIMOTRY-SEEDAI btish4 • • 160
CLOVER-SEED, .4 ,, ; 8 76
PLAN4HED,
PLASTER OP4PARIB, 11.t0p,, • 00
MARRIED.
On the II 'nit:,the - sea , g fib
•-•
by `' v.' J b "
Mr. JOHN C. W. HAItTZEL, of this place,
and Mel CATHARLIE 3. TROSTLZ, of
Mountjoy township.
On the 27th tilt., by the Rev. heob Ziegler,
Mr. WM. WILSON, (of James ) df Harailton•
ban township, and JIJLIA., ANN MIL.
LER, of Gettysburg.' ' '
•On thelOth- ult.; by•the RaYt , G. Roth, Mr.
PHILIP BIIECKBILL, of Cumberland comp
ty, and Mrs. SARAH STUDEBECKER, of
Bendersville.. ,
.
On the 27te nit., by Rev. Mr. Sentmim, Mr.
SAMUEL* D. RECK and 'Hiss HANNAH C.
daughter of- Mr. Firm/cis Alliion—both of
Monntjny township. • .
• • Near Taneytown, on the 18th nit., by Rev.
.R. S. Grier, Rev. M. VALENTINE, of Mid.
dietown, Pa., (formerly of 0 ettysburg,)and Mies
JIA.GGIE, youngest daughter of Sterling Galt,
Esq., of Taneyunin dist:mt.„ •
On the 20th ult,, by Rev, W. F. Eyster, Mr.
EDWARD C. BLOCHER and Mite SARAH,
THOMAS, both of Monahan township, Admits
On the 20th ult., by Rev. A. H. Kremer l Mr.
:JOHN MYERS, of Adams county, and . Miss
IIARIA, idaugbter of Hon. Johu Lefever, of
C timberland dainty.. •
DIED. •
On the 27th ult,, yr. JOHN LEEPEB, of
Oumberland.townOsp, aged about 66 years. •
On the 14th ult., Mr. SAMPLE C. COOP.
ER, of §p,ringbill, Ohio, formerly of this place,
aged 60 years 10 menthe and 17 days..
:;,AGBiCULTURA:L ADDRESS.,
, .
.1111. J. H .Itlll/ISDEN, of York Spring",
41.7 will deliver an Address before the "Ad
'sins County :Agricultural Societ,v " in the
Court• House, in Gettysburg, on Tuesday the
.22nd effontiney, lost, at 1 o'clock, P. M.—
'l'hieitlsens of the town and county are invited
•Itablitoresent.
JOHN NoOrNLY,
1 1 ! SultLa,Seetb.
1856.—td
Independent Blum
'trot will rneet, for *edi t . at the Armory,
• .11. iti full dress,. on 75terday the Bth ofJan
wary next, at 10- o'clock, A. 114 precisely,
with arms and accoutrements io good order,
and provided with 13 roundsuf blank certrid
ge3-
161-4 Court of Appeal will be bald at the
Armory at 3 o'clsck, on the afternocin of said
day.
Ilia Bus local Meeting will held at the
rnugy us,./Tiday, eseutV, the 4th inst., at
8} o'clock Every gopher is requested to be
• ' ' 'JOHN 4:1131.1*, 'O. &'
Jan. 4.—td • • •
tome 'this 'Wall.
ATMEsToo444ortir t x4 *A sell you
1101tOCCOS•4'0III 25 eau to $1 00,
the otweerflattv Cfleooouthe ,ij.
.810101 07 THE SEDYHONT.
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11 h o'l 1.1A041»1
TAX APPEALS.
. • . • . . • • :.. 1
r; Commissioners of Adams county here
give notice thatthey hare fixed upon 1
the following times and places for the holding
Of appeals for the several - Boroughs and Town
ships of Adams county, when and where they •
will attend to hoar appeals, between the hours
of 9 o'clock, A. M„ and 3 o'clock, P. M., of
each day, ea follows : • ' •
lst. For Mountjoy, on Monday, the 28th
of January, at the house of Joese D. Islay
man, in Mountjoy township.' • • • .
2d. For the township of Germany and Un
ion, on Tuesday, the .t9th of January, at the •
house of Joseph Barkei, in Littlestorrn. • '
3d., q
For the townships •of Mountpleasant 1
sod Conowago, on Wednesday, the 30th ofJan
unry, at the house of Peter Smith, in Mount-
pleasant township.
.4th: the township ofßerwiek, on Thiirs-.
day, the 3lst . of January, at the house of Fran-
cis J. Wilson in Ablioiratown..
6th. For the, township of Hamilton, on Fri
day, let of February, at the Louse of David
Newcomer, In East Berlin.
6th. Fer the township of Straban, on Mon- •
day, the 4th of February, at the house of Ja
cob L. Grass, In Hunterstown.
7th. For the township of Oxford, on .'Dues
day, the 6th of February, at the house o f Mn
Miley,f In Oxford.. ,
.
Bth. For the township of Reading on Wed
nesday,. the 6th of February, at the house. of
John A. Dicks, in Hampton.
9th. For the townships of BuotitigtOn'and
Latiinore, on Tharsday, the 7th of February,.
at the house of John 'I). Beckor, in Petersburg,
(Y. S.) •
10th. For the township of Tyrone, on Fri
day, the Bth of February. at the house of Sam
uaLSadler, iu Heidlersburg.
Ilth. For the township ofMenallen, on MOn.
day,. 'the Ilth of February, at the house of
Charles • My e r s in . Benderayille.
12th ,For the township of Butler. on' Tues.;
:deli the 12th of February , at the House of J.
B...Boather, in Middletown. •
13th. For the townihip of Frankliu,on Wed-.
pesday,.the A3t4 of Februtiry,.4, the house of
Be Miekley, Cealnown.
I lay 4th. For the lowniliips of llainilton and,
'Liberty, on ThurSday, tho . 14th' of February,
at the house! oflsaao • Robison, in Fair-
15th. For the tout/Ships of, Cumberland
and Freedom, on Friday, the 15th of February,
at the Commissioners' office, in Gettysburg.
16. Foe the 13orough of Gettysburg, on Sat
urday, the 16th of February, at the Commis
sioner's Office, In Gettysburg.
JANES .1. WILLS, 1
GEORGE MYERS. . • Comm's.
HENRY A. PICKING,
Attut-L-J. A.untintniuos, Clerk. •
Commissioners' Office, •
Gettysburg, Jan. 3, 1856. J • td.,
V 11,111111411 HOUSES et. LOTS,
IN AND AROUND GETTYSBURG,
AT PIZIVA'rE SALE.
WO TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSES
/ opposite the English Lutheran Church
on Chambersburg street, being exoellent .
stands for public business. • ,
ONE TWO,STORY BRICK HOUSE, and
adjol?iulug vuelat,lot.efl Railroad Street. . -
TWO •HIGHLY lIIPEDVED, /LOTS on
the Millerstoivii lii a` containing about
FIVE ACRES, of which about one-thirci is
woodland.. ' . , • • •
ONE LOT OF SIC OR SVEN ACRES,
West of theTfaCilOgicol Seminary and adjoin
ing !oh& of Mr. Dustman: • . :
• ONE LOD OF POUR OR FIVE ACRES,
On thersidge adjoining .the railroad West of
the borough. • , . • • •, .
Term} aci3comiodating., Apply to
S. 6: SCHMUcKER.
Dec.' 28, 1856.—5 t • • ' ' ,
Elec
Nis hereby given that there 11 be
-LI inlet Obit `ofthe Steekttolderi of the 6d.
tyttburg Railroad Cknsipany et the Cotirt-honae,,
in the Horeitet of Gettyliburg, oe'Monekty,ll4e
14th ofJauwarylsat, tot:bonne a President end
twelve Direetors:for Abe ensuing year. 7
• •-1 DAVIP,W4 I 44Bi Wil• •
. • Dec. 28 1,84.6
-
. ,•,. worirege ,.
VOTitt beribyl given that the under
signed,- Auditor appoirited - by • the' Coart
of Common. Pleas of Adams county to make
distributionuf the insets and monies remuin•
in the hands, of 'Altos Leman,
_assignee of
.THOMAS BITTTLE,tn and amongst credi
tors, will atten4'at his office in - the borough
Orgattyablarg, triu-llowday /hot 'l4tli day of
January rieo3 betwge'n. the hours.of A. M.,
and 2,1 ) :'11., or said day; to' discharge tLe
duties of said appointment, when and where
all,purties Were,* CLUP attend.
W,. 'CAMPBELL, Aie/iter.
' bee. 28, 18515.:--4t "
VALUABLE 'PROPERTY
• AT 'PRIVATE SALE.
THE undersigned, will sell at, Private Sale
that desirable property, id McSherrys
town, Conowago township, ..kdanis eoOntYr
Pa., lying on the public road running through
said place. contains
t.ess, wierrfi,
more or leas of first rate landosdjoiwing lauds
of Dr. H. N . Lilly, Samuel and . Joseph Stauva.
baugh, and others, and N . finely imptord.—
There is shale ' •
TWO -STORY 111.
BRICH
with a two-story brick baek.buibling, fronting
on the emu, and nearly opposite the public
house of John Busby, "Elk., a good log Burn,
in orchard of chalet. fruit, a good well of wa
ter, and Other improvements. Possession git ,
en on or before the Ist day of April next, u
may be desired. If not sold, the property will
be FOB RENT.
• Persona wishing to view the premisea tent
call'on
John Busby,
HERRING.
Nov. 23, 1835.--tf
BOOKS ) STATIONERY )
DRUGS & MEDICINES.
Intreitotti ftxteatittlellt.
AD. BUEHLER has added to his former
• stock of Goods an unusually large at.
ortment of Classical, School and Mist:ells-
COWS
31113141101031R1L0WN ,
embracing all the text Books used in the Col
lege, Common Schools, and standard Claude
authors, with the recent popular publications,
constituting a larger :users:nem than nor be
fore openedin Gettysburg. Also
CS ir oil YAP itQ.I) 3lia a 117
of all kinds Cap, Letter, and Note Paper, of
the best quality, Envelopes, Gold Pens and
Pencils, Pen-Noires, be., with a lino assort
ment of •
Fancy Goods,
to which he invites attention, being prepared
tote]] at unusually low prices.
has also largely 'increased his
Stock of—
Druirs 'and elefedieiesear,
wbiab sap be relied. olot sa the boot is the
market.
airArraarmeats hare , boa* slammed, by
which any artrele in his line of be.Armes eem be
P 3 / 1 1 0 1 Y ordered Erg* the city. ,• ,
. 1 41 , _1C 4 r;„ 2 t 1855t_
Daral TRIMMINGS of all kinds
had et SCHICK'S as cheap OS* amp
imitlf sot $ lags dulogr.
Vat VIOL - • • _ • -
.1
HALLOWAY'S INL,LbL,
WET Aa viz
TT bat befit the lot of the Leman rarca,
iweighed down by_ dieetae aid
)IOLLOWAY I 6 PILLS are splariagy ethos&
to the relief of the 'WEAK, tl i aNglkircfaik,
the DELICATE; and the 11C,F WM, of ItliclV
mates, ages 'axe*, and coioititutibita. Pea , :
lessor llellOway personally tuiPariAtirti44
manufacture of irk medicine 4 iu the
States, and offers theta to a free and sellgibp' •
ened people, as the beat retied,/ the worliftrA.
taw for the removal of dinewie.
------ .
Thu m IPlfib Purify tits, Ittevik . : . 1 . ' '''''
These famous Pills are, expre.isly com b
~,,
td operate on the stomach, the liver, ilia „,,,,,
•teys, the lungs, the skin, and , the bowels, ;+j
rooting any derangement in their_cimectork., pt.- r , ?
rifyiug the blood, thevery fouptain,of Afe„ *4 ,ii
thus curing dimes.. itv all its tormx.. ;
nymeyetes md Lever e'etimelei4ts 4 . .:,.;,,,
Nearly half the human• race hard .tabsi
i T a
these Pills. It has been proved is all parts -' •
the world, that ` nothing has been fouled ' 1
to a
them in cases of disorders of the Ur e
ceraial and stomach complaints goricrill y e
rf
They soon give healthy tone to thaw orgies., r.l
however much deranged, and when all 5t1.... i.,i s ,
means have failed. • , . (. , t, i ,
Stswerva•Debilics, VI Tlealti. ,•• . - ~- A
Many of the most des' tic tioverankint
g: ' ' al •
'''.
have opened their Custom oases to %Webs' swirl
duotion of these Pills, that they may bissisisil ...:
She medicine of the masses. Learned Colleges '
Admit that this rcihdicine is the; beet reinedt ; !
ever known for person!, of delicate healtbi r or. :I
where tho system has been impaired; as hi itiei
vigorating properties never fail to *Ord relief, ' '
!anat. Coonpfctwto.
No Female, young or old s should bu witiptil
this celebrated medicine. It cur'' , cis andiet,
olates the monthly courses at all periods, acting
in many cases like & charm. It is &IA the
best and safest medicine that can be given.tp,
Children of all ages, and for any complainti
consequently no family should be without it.
Holloway's Pills are the Lest remedy" bsdowe
The wor/tlfor the fallowingwipg
Asthma • Diairitata •
Bowel Complaints Dropsy . •
Coughs , Debility .
Colds Fever and Ague,'
Chest Diseases Female C'omplt4t*l„
Dyspepsia lida4ClS43ll
Indigestion Stone And Drivel
Influenza Secoutle. symplosse
Inflammation inward Wtitl 41% , „
Val:areal Affections , LilterCOrixplanits
Warn*, of all 1 4 411 • LOrti ' l i 'l l-i rSPl 4il ii# 4 * l.
111 4. * 801d at the manitfactories,of Flotiesim
Houck/AT, 80 Maiden _Lane,Plew York, sod; .
2¢o Strand, London, by all rest* etable Druggist*.
and Dialers of Medicine throughout thsilTni,
ted. States, and the. civilized world, in' bozo, all,
25 cents, 62} cents and $1 each.
',ahem is a considerable saving lay.tale...
ing the larger sizes, . .
B. Directions for the guidaiice of^ pie
dents i every disorder are atlizeti to each boa.
Oct. 26, 1855--eow
• STICKS OF NEW GOOPRI
Til4 CHEAPEST-THE PRITTIEST--TIUMT
ir L. SCHICK has returned from the tit f
ELP 4 with the largest &act hest selected stock.
of FALL AND WINThR GOODS he has
ever had the pleasure of otferingto this. cent
-
inanity, Call and see fur yourselves I He
w,ll not pretand to enumerate his lati;it st,ll
attractive stock—tlie 'baits of WC aZiettilir
ment w7ll not admit of it. But If,vOnkarjsh to
select from the choicest lot of Eillift.'S":4li'D
GENTLFMIEI%''S DRESS GOODS - your'
eyes ever beheld, 'go to
'Oct. 10, 1855.
NEW 'ESTIBI MEWL
GRANITE STONE-YARD.
, . ,
lIIE undersigned respectfully' Ipform the
citizens of Gettysburg and Ilte F i b`ie
generalythatthey.bavo opened.a 0,410.
STONE ABP,, ou South Baliimorg,
opposite .the reeidonco of ',Ceoi t ge
vim' they are prepared to 'funpsh'
ITE STONE,•dressed in every style, foi
Alunissiseists; Door' Sitgie arid
Steps, ,
and every 'kind of buildini3andL'Orliiirawto
-11110. Also; CEMETERY LOCKS naTtilillt
pu hand and a general variety 'di` diolliN
Granite. .•.
ger The undersigned having !had' 4inside
able experience in, their bustues.i,
ly invite parsons wishing arijtliing in . 'tip:ti
hoe to give u '
s'e call '' 48 Oil p'reptireeltd
furnish the same article CHEAPER' thiiii"ti
has ever been heretofore offered..in.ft,vttlf.
buyg. ", :-
HENRY R. BEN`.',IEI 3
PETER BELTLEIt:
Dec. 7,1855.--4 m • ,
FANCY GOODS OF ALL KIMiS
ALT TUE Tammy. sizodon.
I NSW SUPPLY, AND LOW PRIOR!
m ivt:32E a L ti f i ,A a ll ou i t l i l o T ru ittl e l the nttent;oa
i 0 bed Inds•
rior assortment of
' 21.14,113" 11 , 34Kbgto '
suitable for Fall end Winter wear, which hew*
been purchased very low end will he sold as
corresponding low prices.. The assorratesS
includes the new and fashionable styles of ' -
Cashmeres,
Bilks, Do Lanes,
din
, Bage, Coburg Cloths,' Muss.
Linnea, Sack Flannels, Dom. /-
nets and Bonnet Trimmings. Satihs,
Ladies' Dress Trimmings, Velvets,
Attil
diale, Black Veils, Blue do., filoves, flioderyi
Handkerchiefs, French itlinrke4 Cellars,
Ca mimic, Jackonatand Edgings' ' ,
insertingni, Muslins, Sleeves, Mo. -
hair and Silk Mita, Black . : -
Lace and Enibroider%
ed Handkercbiatk'
Braids, Fans,
ito., &a, •
IS-Ladies and Oentlenlen are requei r V i
to call gad exanxine.aurA3o6da, ibtrb ,etit
be beet in die' town for beauty antrebealid
nese.
GettysbUrg; Nne: 2 1855. ,
. „
CILEDOMI MON.
4AHNESTOCK iIROTNEIIBI, Itsvittr the
exclusive bale of, CALEDONIA
ED MON' for fisttisburir; at
tention of buyers wails quake of ]rot—ttes
best in the inarlote,oablolt win be salist4l
lowest sates,
keep + large tarp* of WM/4 tiVA
MOconstaatli oa
1/IP-117,44
Dec; 1; 48.5411.,, , •
nor pickle of =rad
.1111 WOOL' BOW sod 80k4r,t4 Atibr,„
Tll A
Trairwrz Blom
' 4 ' , eit a a
"Oct. IZ
11,U1 0 1 0 1 11 0 1 4
SOUICE,I3.