The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 3, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1827 — Page 1

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f&RBSIDRNT'S MESSAGE. rM Washington Cityy Dec. 5. The President ot the United States ^'transmitted, this day, to both houses of Congress th" Following Message Fellow Citizens of the Senate /.. and of the House of Representatives 41?. The assemblage of the representatives of our Union in both houses of 'Congress, at this time occurs under circumstances calling for the renewed homage of our grateful acknowledgements to the Giver of all good. With the exceptions incidental to the most felicitoU9 condition ot human existence,

we continue tobe highly favored in all 11*1 the elements which contribute to individual contort and national prosperity, lu the survey of our extensive county, wr have generally to observe abodes of health and regions of plenty, in our civil and political relations, we have p.'ice without, and tranquility within our borders. Wc are, as a people, in creasing with unabateif rapidity in popuia'ion, wealth.and national resources aiid, whatever differences ofopimonion exist among us, with regard to the mode and the means by which we shall turn the ben idee nee of Heaven to the improvement of our own condition. there is yet a spirit, animating us all which will not suffer the buunties

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vain, but will receive them with grateful hearts, and apply them with unwearied hands, to the advancement of the general good.

Of the subjects recommended to the 'consideration of Congress ut their last session, home were then definitively acted upon Others left unfinished, bbt parily matured, will recur to your attention, without needing a renewa of notice from me. The purpose ot this communication will be, to pttu«ni to your view the general aspect ol our public affairs at tins moment, and the treasures which have been taken to carry into effect the intentions of the

Legislature as signified by the laws then and heretofore enacted.

In our intercourse with the other natwvns of the earth, we have stiil the hap pinessuf enjoying peace and a general good understanding—tjualifted however, in several important mstaucis, b_v collisions of interest, and by unratified claims ofjustice, to the seitWment ol which the cOithtiiutionai inierposhioti of the legislative authority may become ultimately indispensable.

By the decease of the Emperor Al~ exander of Russia, which occurred cotemporaneously with the commencement of the last session ot Congress, the I States have been deprived of a

long-tried, steady, and faithful friend/ Ron* to the inheritance of absolute trained in the school of ad* from which no power on earthj However absolute, i* exempt, that mon' sreh. front his youth* Jiad been taught "V, force and value of public o-, pinion, and to be sensible that the intcrestn of his own government would best t»e promoted by a frank and frieudly intercourse with this republic, as those c»f h'ts people would be advanced by a liberal commercial intercourse with our country A candid and confidential1 interchange of sentiments between hitn and the guv't of the United States, upon the aflfcirs of southern America, took place at a period not long preceding his demise, and contributed to fit that course of policy Which left to the rfther governments of Europe no alternative but that af sooner or later recognizing •he independence of our southern neighbours, of which the example had, bj the United States, already been set", Tins ordinary diplomatic commonia» tious between4ua MeaMsor, the Emperor Nicholas, and the United States, have suffered some interruption by the illness, departure and subsequent decease of his minister residing here, who -enjoyed, as he merited, the entire confidence uf his new sovereign, as he had eminently responded to that of his predecessor. But we have had the most satisfactory assurances, that the sentiments of the reigning Emperor towards the United States are altogether conformable to those which had so long and constantly animated his imperial brother and we have occasion to hope that they will serve to cement that harmony and good understanding between the two nations, which, founded in congenial interests, cannot but result in the advancement of the welfare and prosperity of both.

Our relations of commerce and na-1 vigation with Prance are, by the operation of the convention of the 24th June, 1822, with that nation, in a state ot gradual and progressive improvement. Convinced by all our experience, no less than by the principles of fair and liberal reciprocity which the United States have constantly tendered to all the nations of the earth as the rule of commercial intercourse, which they would universally prefer, that fair and equal competition is most conducive to the interests of both parties, the United States, in the negotiation of that convention, earnestly contended for a n»utual renunciatiou of discriminating du--tits and charges in the ports of the two countries. Unable to obtain the immedi-1 ate recognition of this principle in it* fuli4 extent, alter reducing the duties ofdiscrimination, so far as was found attainable, it was agreed that attheexpiration ot two years from the 1st of Oc tober, 1822, wlien the convention was' to go into effect, unless a notice of six months on either side should be given to theothttr, that the convention itself must terminate, those duties should be reduced by one fourth a ad that this reduction should b« yearly repeated, until all discrimination should cease while the convention itself should continue in force. By the effect of thin stipulation, ihree-fuui ths of the discriminating dnties which had been levied by each party upou the vessels of the oilier iu its ports, have airuady been removed and on the first ot next October, should the convention be ftiii in force, the remaining fourth will be discontinued. French vessels laden wkh French produce, will be received in our ports on the same terms a» our own $ and ours, in return, will enjoy the same advantages in the ports of France. By these approximations to jui equality oi duties and of charges, not only haa the commerce betweeu the two Countries prospered, but friendly disposition# have been, on both sides, encouraged and promoted, 'i'hey will continue to be cherished and cultivated on the part of the United states. lt Would have been gratifying to have had it in my power to add, that the claims upon the French Government, involving the property and the comfortable subsistence ot many of our fellow-citizens, and which have been so long and so earnestly y^ed, wsre 'iua mute promi. ,.Li» f*

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TERRE-HADTK,, VIGO COUNTY,: INDIANA, JANUARY 8, 1881 [YOL, 3. NO

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ising train of adjustment than at your last tweeting but their condition ref atftatfestiai terod.

With the government of the Netherlands, the mutual abandonment of discriminating duties had been regulated by legislative .acts on both aides The set of Congress of the 20th of April, 1818, abolished alt discriminating duties of impost and tonnage, upon the vessels and produce of the Netherlands in the ports of the United States, upon the assurance given by the government t-fthe Netherlands, that all such duties operating against the shipping and commerce of- the United States* in fhat kingdom had been abolished. I hose retiproca! regulations had continued in force for several years, when the discriminating principle was resumed by the netherlands ta anew and indirect form, by a bounty of ten percent. in the shape of a return of duties to their national vessels, and in which those of the United States are not permitted Id participate* By the act of Congress of the 7th of January, 1824, all discriminating duties in the United States were again suspended, so far as related to the veaaels and produce of the Netherlands, so long aa the reciprocal exemption should be extended to the vessels and produce of the United Slates in the Netherlands. But the same act provides that, in the erect of a restoration of discriminating duties, to operate against the shipping and comtnerce of the United States, many of the foreign countries referred to therein, the suspension of discrimina* ting duties in favour ot the navigation ol t.uch foreign country should cease, and all the provisions of the acts imposing discriminating foreign tonnage and impost duties in the United States, should revive and be in lull force with regard to that nation

In tite correspondence witb the gov* ernmeut of the jNetherlands upon thia subject, they have contended that the favours shown to thetr shipping by this bounty upon their tonnage, is not to be considdcred as a discriminating du ty. But it canhot be denied that it produces- alt the same effects Had the mutual abolition been stipulated by treaty, such a bounty upon the national yesieli could scarcely have been granted consistently with good faith— Yet, aa the act ot Congress of the 7th January 18&4, has not expressly authorised the executive authority to determine what shall be considered as a revival of discriminating duties by a foreign government to the disadvantage of the United States, and as the retaliatory measure on our part, however just and necessary, may tend rather to that conflict of legislation which we deprecate, than to tbatcoucert to which we invite all commercial nations, as most conducive to their interest and our own, I have thought it more consistent with the spirit of our institutions to refer the subject again to the paramount authority^ the legislature to decide what measure the emergency may require, than abruptly, by piocltttnation, to carry into eiiect the minatory provision of the act of 1824.

During the last session of Congress, treaties ofamity, navigation and comuu rce, were ficgociatea and signed at this place wit^i ibe government of Denmark, in Europe, and with the Federation of Central America, in this hemispher#. These treaties then received the constitutional sanction of the senate, by the advice and consent to their ratification. *!1»ey were accordingly ratified, on the part uf the United States, and. during the recess of Congress, have been also ratified, by the other respective contracting parties The ratifications have been exchanged, and thi-y have been published by pro claruatioas, copies cf which are herewith 'ccmmunicated to congress. These treaties have established between the contracting parties the principles of equaiity and reciprocity, in their broadest and most liberal extent each party admitting the vesseU of the other in to it* ports, laden with cargoes the produce or manufacture of any quarter of the globe, upon the payment of the aame duties ot tonnage and impost that are chargeable ujpon their own. They

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igation *r commerce to -any ether nation, which shall not, upon the same terms be granted to each other: and that neither party will impose upon articles of merchandise, the produce or manufacture of th^ other, any other ep higher duties than upon the like arti« ctes, being the produce or manufacture of any other country. To these principles there is, in the convention with Denmark, an esception, with regard to the ooloniea of that kingdom in the Arctic Seas, but none with regard to her colonies in the West Indies.

In the course of last summer, the term to which our last commercial treaty with Sweden was limited, Las exj»red*i A continuation of it is in the contemplation of the Swedish

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ment, and is balieved to be desirable on the part of the United States. It has been proposed by tbe king of Sweden, th|t, pending the negotiation of re* newel, the Expired treaty fhauld be mutually considered as still to force a measure which will require the aano tiop of Congress to be carried into effect on our part, and which I thereforo recommend to your consideration.

With Prussia, Spain, Portugal, ami* in genera! all tbe European powers, between whom and the United Stales.jvslations of friendly intercourse have'ex^v*' isted, their condition has nbt materially varied since the !«st session of Concress. I regret not to be able to say the same of our commerci*J intercourse with the colonial possessions of Great Britain, in America Negotiations of the highest importance to our common interest* have been for several years in discussion between the

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ments and on the part of the United States have invariably been pursued its the spirit of candor and conciliation. Interests of great magnitude and deli* cacy had been adjusted bv the conventions of 1815 and 1B18, while that

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1822, mediated by the late Empeeor Alexander, bad promilsed a satis/acto* ry compromise of claims which the gov eminent of tha United States in justice to the rights of a numerous class of their citiaens, was bound to austain* But with regard to the commercial in-*'* tercourse between the United State* and the British colonies in Amerioa, it has been hitherto found impracticably to bring the parties to an underatand*' mg satisfactory to both. The relative geographical position, and the respecU ive products of nature cuftivated by. human industry, had constituted tho elements of a commercial intercourse between the United States and Britieli America, insular and continental, im* portal it to the inhabitants of both countries.—But it had been interdicted by Great Britain, upon a principle hereto, fore practised upon bv the colonizing nations of Europe of holding the trade of their colonies, each in exclusive mo« nopoly to herself. After the terminal tion of the late war, this interdiction had been revived, and the Britiah gov. eminent declined including this nor. tion of our intercourse with her posses* «ions in the negotiation of the

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tion of 1815. 1 he trade was then car« ried on exclusively in British vessels, till the act of congress concerning navigation, of 1818, and the supplioHnitary act of 1820, met the interdict by a corresponding measure on the part of the United States. These measures, not of retaliation, but of necessary self defence, were soon succeeded by an act of parliament, opening certain colonial ports to the vessels of the United States, coming-directly from them, and to the importation from them of

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tain articles of our produce* burdened with heavy duties, and excluding soqie^ of the most valuable articles of our exports. The United States opened their parts to British vessels from the colonies, upon terms as exactly corresponding with those of the act of parliament, as, in the relative position orthe parties could be iqade. And a negotiation was ., commenced by u«tual consent, with the hope, on our part, that a reciprocal spirit of accommodation and a common sentiment of the importance of 4 the trade to the interest of the inbab-

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