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VOL. 2UV.

PRESIDENT'S IiIESSAGE

(mintlcmcn of the Senate, and Jlonse of llcprcsentalives: In performing my duty at tho opening r.f your present session, it gives mo pleasure to congratulate you again upon the prosperous condition of our beloved country. Divine Providence has favored us with general health, with rich rewards in the fields ot agriculture and in every branch of labor, and with peace to cultivate and extend tho various resources which employ the virtue and enterprise of our citizens. " Ict us trust that, in surveyin" a scene so flattering to our free instiO C tutione, our joint deliberations to preserve them may be crowned with success. Our foreign relations continue, with but few exceptions, to maintain the favorable aspect which they bore in my last annual message, and promise to extend those advantages which the principles that regulate our intercourse with other nations are so well calculated to Eecure. The question of the northeastern boundary is still pending with Great Britain, and the proposition made in accordance with tho resolution of the Senate for the establishment of a line according to the treaty of 17KJ, has not been accepted by that government. Believing that every disposition is felt on both sides to adjust this perplexing question to the satisfaction of all parties interested in it, the hope is yet indulged that it may be effected on the basnof that proposition. With tho Governments of Austria, Russia, Prussia Holland, Sweden, and Denmark, the best understanding exists. Commerce, with all, is fostered and protected by reciprocal good will, under the sanction of liberal conventional or legal provisions. In the midst of her internal difficulties, the Queen of Spain has ratified the convention for the payment of the claims of our citizens arising since 181'J. It is in the course of execution on her part, and a copy cf it is now laid beforo yon for such legislation as may be found necessary to enable those interested to derive the benefits of it. Yielding to the force of circumstances, tmd to the wise counsels of time and experience, that power has finally resolved no longer to occvpy the unnatural position in which she stood to the new governments established in this hemisphere. I have the great satisfaction of stating to you that in preparing tho way for tho restoration of harmony between those who have sprung from the same ancestors, who arc allied by common interests, profess the eamo religion, and speak the same language, the United States have been actively instrumental. Our efforts to effect this good work, will be persevered in while they are useful to the parties, and our entire disinterestedness continues to be felt rind understood. The act of Congress to countervail the discriminating duties, levied to the prejudice of our navigation, in Cuba and Poto Rico, has been transmitted to the Minister of tho United States at Madrid, to be communicated to the Government of the Queen. No intelligence of its receipt has yet reached the Department of State. If the present condition of the country permits the Government to make a careful enlarged examination of the true interests of these important portions of its dominions, no doubt is entertained that their future intercourse uilh the United States will be placed upon a more just and liberal basis. The Florida archives have not yet been selected and delivered. Recent orders have been sent to the agent of the United States at Havana, to return with all that he can obtain, so that they may be in Washington before the session of the Supreme Court, to be used in the legal questions there pending, to which the government is a party. Internal tranquility is happily restored to Portugal. The distracted state of the country rendered unavoidable the postponmcnt of a final payment of the just claims of oar citi.ens. Oar diplomatic ; s will be soon resumed, and the! relations lone subsisting friendship with that Power ufiords the strongest guarantee that the balance duo will receive prompt attention, I lie first instalment due under the convention of indemnity w ith the King of the Two Sicilies, has been duly received, and an offer has been mado to extinguish the wholo by a prompt payment an offer I did not consider myself authorized to accept, as the indemnification provided is the exclusive property of individual citizeai of the United States. The original ndjustmcut of our claims, and the anxiety tiisplaxed to fulfil at ouce the stipulations made for the payment of them, are highly honorable to the government of tho t wo Sicilies. When it is recollected that they were the result of an intrusive power, temporarily dominant in its territory, a re pugnance to acknowledge ana io pav 1 T M - which would have been neither unnatural nor unexpected, the circumstances cannot fail to exalt its character for justice and oo I faith in the eyes cf all nations. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce Itcluccn the United Sutcs and Belgium, brought to vour notice in my last annual message, as sanctioned by tlio Senate, but the ratifications of which had not been exi i ! c i.nr.'i i Lowmir to a ueiav in us reception. lv-w 7 " - at Brussels, and a subsequent absence ol i B.Iiiiiu Minister of Foreign Alfairs, the has been, alter mature ueiiucrauon, uuaiii .ti.nvowcd bv that jrovernment as in pnt with the nowers and instruclinn riven to their minister who neirotia - i ..- - ted it. This disavowal was entirely un expected, os ths liberal principles crnbo - J

iieJ in the convention, and which form the j

ground-work of tho objections to it, were perfectly satisfactory to the Belgian representative, and were supposed to be not only within the powers granted, but expressly conformable to the instructions given to him. An offer, not vet accented, has been made by Belgium to renew negotiations for a treaty less liberal in its provisions, on questions of general maritime law. Our newly established relations with the Sublime Porto promise to be useful to our commerce, and satisfactory in every respect to this Government. Our intercourse with the Barbary Power continues without important change, except that the present political state of Algiers has induced me to terminate the residence thereof a salaried consul, and to substitute an ordinary consulate, to remain so long as the place continues in the possession of France. Our first treaty with one of these powers the Emperor of Morocco was formed in 17S0, and was limited to fifty years. That period has almost expired. I shall take measures to renew it with the greater satisfaction as its stipulations arejust and liberal, and have been, with mutual fidelity and reciprocal advantage, scrupulously fulfilled. Intestine dissensions have too frequently occurred to mar the prosperity, interrupt the commerce, and distract the governments of most of the nations of this hemisphere, which have separated themselves from Spain. When a firm and permanent understanding with the parent country shall have produced a formal ac knowledgment of their independence, and tho idea of danger from that quarter can be no longer entertained, the friends of freedom expect that those countries, so fa vored by nature, will be distinguished for their love of justice and their devotion to those peaceful art?, tho assiduous cultivation of which confers honor, upon nations and gives value to human life. In the mean time I confidently hope, that the ap prehensions entertained, that some of the people of these luxuriant regions may be tempted in a moment of unworthy distrust of their own capacity for tho enjoyment of liberty, to commit the too common er ror of purchasing present repose by bestowing on some favorite leader tho fatal gift of irresponsible power, will not be realized- With all these governments, and with that of Brazil, no unexpected changes in our relations have occurred during the present year. Frequent causes ol just complaint have arisen upon the j part ot the citizens of the United States, J sometimes from the irregular action of the constituted subordinate authorities of tho maritime regions, and sometimes from the leaders or partisans of those in arms against the established governments. In all cases, representations have been, or will be made, and as soon as their politi cal affairs are in a settled position, it is expected that our friendly remonstrances will bo followed by adequate redress. The government of Mexico made known in December last, the appointment of Commissioners and a Surveyor, on its part, to run, m conjunction with ours, the boundary line between its territories and the United States, and excused the delay lor the reasons anticipated the prevalence of civil war. The Commissioners and Surveyors not having met within the time stipulated by the treaty, a new arrangement became necessary, and our Charge d Affaires was instructed, in January last, to negotiate, iu Mexico, an article additional to the pre-existing treaty. This instruction was acknowledged, and no difficulty was apprehended in the accomplishment of that object. By information just received, that additional arti cle to the treaty will be obtained, and transmitted to this country, as soon as it can receive the ratification of the Mexican Congress. The re -union of the three States of New Granada, Venezuela, and Equador, forming the Republic of Colombia, seems eve ryday to become more improbable. Tho

i Commissioners of the two first are under-ion

stood to be now negotiating a just division of the obligations contracted by them when united under one jrovernment. The , civil war in hquador, it is believed, has j prevented even the appointment of a Com missioner on its part. 1 propose, at an early day. to submit in mo proper torm, the appointment ot a uiplomatic agent to Venczula. The impor - j tauce of the commerce of that country to j the United States, and the largo claims of; j our citizens upon the government, arising ; beforo and since the division of Colombia, ! rendering it, in my judgment, improper longer to delay this step. Uur representatives to Central Amcri - j ca, Peru, and Brazil, aro either at, or on

-1 ..I . . form you that this pacifie and highly gratifying 'picture f our foreign relations, r-7 . u does not include those with France at this lime. It is not possible that any governme mt and peope could be more sincerely sirousof conciliating a just and friend - desi ly intercourse with another nation, than are those of the United States with their nncient ally and friend. This disposition U founded, as well on the most xateful - 1 and honorable recollections associated , ... o . . - ' with our struggle for independence, as up - - ' ca a well grounded conviction that it is

meir way io, ineir respective posis. j article, viz: " 1 ho wines ot r ranee, trom a sacrifice which was chcerluliy acquicsFrom the Argentine Republic, from and after the exchange of the ratifications j ced in by the different branches of the which a Minister was expected to this go-j of the present Convention, -ball be admit-! Federal Government, whose action upon vernment, nothing further has been heard, j ted to consumption in tho States of the ! the treaty was required, from a sincere Occasion has been taken, on the depar- j Union, at duties which shall not exceed J desire to avoid further collision upon this ture of a new Consul to Buenos Ay res, to ' the following rates by the gallon, (such as j old and disturbing subject, and in the conremind that government, that its long de-J it is used at present for wines in tho Uni-1 fident expectation that the general relalayed Minister, whose appointment had S ted States,) to-wir: six cents for red wines j tions between the two countries would be been made known to us, had not arrived. in casks; ten cents for white wines in I improved thereby. It becomes mv unpleasant duty to in-! casks; and twenty-two cents for wines of j The refusal to vote the appropriation,

consonant with the true policy of both. j tho treaty of cession of Louisiana. It onThe people of the United States could not, gages, moreovr, to establish on the long

theretore, sec without the deepest regret, ! even temporary interruption ot the friendly relations between the two countries a regret which would, I am sure, be greatly aggravated, if there should turn out to be any reasonable ground for attributing such a result to any act of omission or commission on our part. I derive, therefore, the highest satisfaction from being able to assure you, that the whole course of this government has been characterized by a spirit so conciliatory and forbearing, as to make it impossible that our justico and moderation should be questioned, whatever may be tho consequences of a longer perseverance, on the part of the French Government, in heromision to satisfy the conceded claims of our citizens. The history of the accumulated and unprovoked aggressions upon our commerce, committed by authority of the existing governments of France, between tho years 1S00 and 1817, has been rendered too painfully familiar to Americans to make its repetition either necessary or desirable. It will be sufficient hero to remark, that there has, for many years, been scarcely a single administration of the French government, by whom tho justice and legality of the claims of our citizens to indemnity, were not, to a very considerable extent, admitted; and yet near a quarter of a century has been wasted in ineffectual negotiations to secure it. Deeply sensible of the injurious effects resulting from this state of things upon ths interests and character of both nations, I regarded it as among my first duties to causo 0113 more effort to be made to satisfy France, that a just and liberal settlement of our claims was as well due to her own honor as to their incontentcst-; ible validity. The for this ' purpose was commenced w ith the late go vcrnmcnt of France, and was prosecuted with such success, as to leave no reasonable ground to doubt, that a settlement of a character quite as libcrul as that which was subsequently made, would have been effected, had not tho revolution, by which tho negotiation was cut off, taken place. The discussions wcro resumed with the present government, and the result showed, that we were not wronrj in supposing, that an event by which the two governments were made to approach each other so much nearer in their political principles, and by which tho motives for I the most Iiberaland friendly intercourse were so greatly multiplied, could exercise! no other than a salutary influence upon! the negotiation. After the most delibe- j rate and thorough examination of the j whole subject, a treaty between the two ! Governments was concluded ami signed j at Paris on the 4th of July, 1S31, bv ! which it was stipulated that "the French Government, in order to liberate itself from all the reclamations preferred against it by citizens of tho United States, for un-! lawful seizures, captures, sequestrations, confiscations, or destruction of their ves sels, cargoes, or other property, engages to pay a sum of twenty-five millions of i - 1 V 1 . traucs to the United estates, who shall distribute it among those entitled, iu the manner and according to the rules it shall determine;" and it was also stipulated on the part of the French Government, that this twenty-five millions of francs should "be paid at Paris in six annual instalments of four millions one hundred and sixty -six thousand six hundred and sixtysix francs and sixty-six centimes each, iu to the hands cf such person or persons as shall be authorized bv the government of the United States to receive it." The first instalment to be paid "at the expiration of one year next following the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, and the others at successive intervals of a year, one after another, till the whole shall be paid. To the amount of each of! the said instalments shall be added in - terestat fuirper centum thereupon, as up - the other instalments then remaining unpaid, the said interest to be computed ! from the day of the exchange of the pre- : sent convention." It was also stipulated, on tho part of the United States, for the purpose of being completely liberated from all the reclamations presented by Fracce on hehalfof its citizens, that the sum ot one million five ! hundred thousand francs should be paid to i the government of France, in six annual instalments, to be deducted out of the an - nual sums which Franco had agreed to pay, interest thereupon being in like man - loon ueimrin ike man - tier computed from the day of the cxchange of the ratifications. In addition 1 to this stipulation, important advantages i were secured to France bv the following I. . r j all sorts in bottles. The proportions ex- ! K I " - isting between the duties on French wines j thus reduced, and the general rates of the ' tariff which went into operation the first; January, ISj'J, shall be maintained, in case the government of the United IStates should think proper to diminish those cn - jeral rates in a new tariff. I In consideration of this stipulation,! ! which shall be bindinrr on th ITnitpd : i . states tor ten years, the trench govern - . ment abandons th.3 reclamations which it t had formed in relation to the Stb article of

staple cottons of tho United State, which

after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention, glial I be brought directly thence to France by the vessels of tho United States, or by French vessels, the same duties as on short staple cottons." This treaty was duly ratified in the manner prescribed by tho constitution of both countries, and the ratification was exchanged in the city of Washington on the 2d February, 183"i. On account of its commercial stipulations it was, in five days thereafter laid before tho Congress of the United States, which proceeded to enact such laws favorable to tho commerce of Franco as wcro necessary to carry it into full execution; and France has, from that period to the present, been in the unrestricted enjoyment of the val uable privileges that were thus secured to !her. The faith of the French nation ha ving been thus solemnly pledged, through its constitutional organ, for the liquidation and ultimate payment of the long deferred claims of our citizens, as also for the adjustment of other points of great and reciprocal benefits to both countries, and the United States having with a fidelity and promptitude by which their conduct will, I trust, bo always characterized done every thing that was necessary to carry the treaty into full nnd fair effect on their part, counted, with the most perfect confidence, on equal fidelity and prompti tude on the part of tho French government. In this reasonable expectation we have been, I regret to inform you, wholly disappointed. No legislative provision has been made bv France for tho execu tion of the treaty, either as it respects the indemnity to be paid, or the commercial j benefits tube secured to the United States, and the relations between the United States l J.I... - .1 c hum nun puwur, in cuusequcii-u mcicui, are placed in a situation threatening to in terrupt the good understanding which has so long and so happily existed between the two nations. Not only has tho French Government been thus wanting in the performance of the stipulations it has so solemnly entered into with the United States, but its omissions have been marked bv circumstances which would ocm to leavo us without satisfactory evidence?, that such perforinJancc will certainly take place at a future I period. Advice of the exchango of ratifications reached Paris prior to tho 8th April, 18212. The rrench Chambers were then sitting and continued in session un til thc21st of that month, and although one instalment of the indemnity was pay able on the 2d of February, 1933, one year after tho exchange of ratifications, no application was made to the Chambers for the required appropriation, and iu consequence of no appropriation having been made, the draft of the United States government (or that instalment, was dishonored by the Minister of Finance, and the united States thereby involved in much controversy, iho next session of the Chambers commenced on the l'Jth Nov. j 1832, and continued until the 25th April, - i . - -- k . a lbJJ. .Notwithstanding the omission to pay the first instalment, had been made the subject of earnest remonstrance on our part, the treaty with the United States, and a bill making the necessary appropriations to execute it, wero not laid before the Chamber of Deputies until the 6th of April, nearly five months after its meeting, and only nineteen days before the close of the sesssion. The bill was read and referred to a committee, but there was no further action upon it. The next session of tho Chambers commenced on tho 2Gth of April, 1833, and continued until the 20th of June following. A new bill was introduced on the 1 1th of June, but nothing important was done in relation to it during the session. In tho month of April, 1934, nearly three years after tho stgnaj ture of the treaty, the final action of the j trench Chambers upon the bill to carry j the treaty into effect, was obtained, and resulted in a refusal of tho necessary ap propriations. 1 he avowed grounds upon which ihc bill was rejected, aro to be found in the published debates of that body, and no observations of mine can be necessary to satisfy Congress of their ut ter insulnciency. Although the gross amount ot the claims of our citizens is I probably creatcr than will be ultimately ! allowed by the commissioners, sufficient ! is, nevertheless, shown, to render it abso lutely certain that the indemnity falls fai ! short of tho actual amount f our jus far 1 snort, oi mo actual amount ei our iusi claims, independently of the question of damages and interest for tho detention. ! That the sottlement involved a sacrifice in i this respect w as well known at the time I , . . the news of which was received from our , - - - . w - w v. Minister in Paris about the loth day of May last, might have been consid final determination of the French dered the govern- ' ment not to execute tho stipulations of the 1 treaty, and would have justified an immel diate communication of the facts to Con grcsj, w ith a recommendation of such ultimatc measures as tho interest and honor of the United State miMi. sppm to remiiro . : : : i" ! but with the news of tho refusal of the i Chambers to make the appropriation, were conveyed ths rojrcts of the King, and a

declaration that a national vessel should I be forthwith sent out, with instructions to! .t. r i. :. i

tho French Minister to give the most am ple explanations ot the past, and the strongest assurances for the future. After a long passage the promised despatch vessel arrived, The pledges given by the French Minister, upon receipt of his instructions, were, that as soon alter the election of the new members as the charter would permit, the legislative Chambers of Franco should be called together, and the proposition for an appropriation be laid before them; that all the constitutional powers of tho King and his Cabinet should be exerted to accomplish the object, and that the result should be made known early enough to bo communicated to Congress at the commencement of the present session. Relying upon these pledges, and not doubting that the acknowledged justice ot our claims, the promised exertions of the King and his Cabinet, and above all, that sacred regard for the national faith and honor for which the French character has been so distinguished, would secure an early execution of the treaty in all its parts, I did not deem it necessary to call the attention of Congress to the subject at the last session. I regret to say that tho pledges made through the miui.ter of France have not been redeemed. The new chambers met on the 3lt July last, and although the subject of fulfilling treaties was alluded to in the speech frwm the throne, no attempt was made by the King or hi Cabinet to procure an appropriation to carry it into execution. The reasons given for this mission, although they might be considered sufficient in an ordinary case, are not consistent with the expectations founded upon the assurances given here, Ur there is no constitutional obstacle to entering into legislative business at the first meeting of the chambers. This point, however, might have been overlooked, had not the chambers, instead of being called to meet at so early a day that tho result of their deliberations mi"ht be communicated to me, before the meeting of Congress, been prorogued to the 29th of the present month a period so late that their decision can scarcely be made known to the present Congress prior to its dissolution. To avoid this delay, our Minister in Paris, in virtue of tho assurance given by the French Minister in the United States, strongly urged the convocation of the Chambers at an earlier day,; Kilt 1- t lv 11 1? BlliraCJ If - x ". T m I but without success. It is proper to remark, however, that this refusal has been accompanied with the most positive asur t anccs, on the part of the Executive goveminent of Francs, of their intention to! press the appropriation at the ensuing session of the Chambers. The executive branch of this govern. mcnt has, as matters stand, exhausted all

the authority upon the subject with which cision will not probably be known, in tirno it is invested, and which it had .ny reason to bo communicated to this Congress, 1 to believe could be beneficially employed, recommend that a law be passed, authorizThe idea of acquiescing in the refusal to; ing reprisals upon French Droncrtv. in

execute the treaty will not, 1 am confident, be for a moment entertained by any branch of this government ; and further negotiation is equally out of the question. If it shall be the pleasure of Congress to await the further action of the French Chambers, no further consideration of the subject will, at this session, probably be required at your hands. But, if, from the original delay in asking for an appropriation, from tho refusal of the Chambers to grant it when asked, from the omission to bring the subject before tho Chambers at their last session, from the fact that, in-i eluding that session, there have been nre! different occasions when the appropriation ! might have been made, and from the delay in convoking the Chambers until some' weeks after the meeting of Congress, when 1 it was well known that a communication1 of the whole subject to Congress at the last session, was prevented by assurances that it should bo disposed of before its present meeting, you should feel yourselves constrained to doubt whether it be the intention of the French Government in all its branches to carry the treaty into effect, and think that such measures as the occasion may be deemed to call for, should be new adopted, the important question arises what those measures shall bo. Our institutions are essentially pacific. Peace and friendly intercourse with all nations, are as much the desire of our Government as they are the interest of our People. But these objects are not to be permanently secured, by surrendering the rights of our citizens, er permitting solemn treaties for their indemnity in cass of flaggrant wrong, to be abrogated or set aside. It is undoubtedly in the power of Congress seriously to affect the agricultural and manufacturing interests of France, by the passage of laws relating to her trade with the United States. Her products, manufactures, and tonnage, may be subjected to heavy duties in our ports, or all commercial intercourse with her may be suspended. But there are powerful, and, to my mind, conclusive objections to this mode of proceeding. We cannot embarrass or cut off the trade of France, without, at the same time, in some degree, embar rassing or cutting oftour own trade. Tho injury of such a warfare must fall, though

unequally, upon our own citizens, and j dred and twenty-four thousand street could not but impair the means of the hundred and seventeen dollars, which with Government, and weaken that united sen-j the balance remaining in the treasury oa timent in support of the rights and honor the first of January latf of eleven railof the nation which must now pervade j lions seven hundred and two 5 every bosom. Nor is it impossible that nine hundred and five dollars, produce such a course of legislation would intro-jan aggregate of thirty-two cniilioca thrw

uuco on-e more into our national coun-; hundred and twenty-three deKars. Tfca cils, those disturbing questions in relation total expenditure during the year far all to the tariff of duties which have been so objects, including the Public debt, is

recently put to rest Beside, by every

measure adopted by the Government of tho United State with tho view of iniurini .1 . . J . B

Francc, tho clear perception of riht wnicu win inauceourown people, and tho rulers and people of all other nations, oven of France herself, to pronounce our quarrel just, will bo obscured, and tho support rendered to us in a final resort to more !e eisive measures, will be more limited and equivocal. There is but one point in the controversy, and upon that tho wholo civilized world must pronounce France to be io the wrong. We insist that she shall pay us a sum of money, which she has acknowledged to be due; and of the justice of this demand, there can be but one opinion among mankind. True policy would seem to dictate that the question at issuo should be kept thus disencumbered, and that not the slightest pretooce should bo given to France to persist in her refusal to make payment, by any act on our part affecting the interests of her people. Tho question should be left as it is now, iu such an attitude that when Franco fulfil her treaty stipulations, all controversy will be at an" end. It is my conviction, that the United States ought to insist on a prompt execution of the treaty, and in case it be refused, or longer delayed, take redress into their own hands. After the delay on tho part of France of a quarter of a century in acknowledging these claims by treaty, it is not to be tolerated that another quarter of a century is to be wasted in negotiating about the payment. Tho laws of nations provide a remedy (or such occasions. It i a well settled principle of the inter-national code, that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt, which it refuses or neglects to pay, the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt, without giving just cause of war. This remedy has been repeatedly resorted to, and recently by France herself, towards Portugal, under circumstances less unquestionable. The time at which resort should be had to this, or any other mode of redress, is a point to be decided by Congress. If an appropriation shall not be made by the French Chambers at their next session, it may justly be concluded that tho Government of France has finally determined to disregard its own solemn undertaking, and refuse to pay an acknowledged debt. In that event, every day's delay on our part will be a stain upon our national honor, as ., 1 I -.. J I .1 ' . m . well as a denial of justice (o our injured citizens. Prompt measures, when the re fusal of France shall be complete, will not a - - - - .. --w w j a a a a' only be most honorable and just, but will have the best effect upon our national char acter. Since France, in violation of the pledgee given through her minister here, lias de layed her final action so long that her decase provision shall not be made for the payment of the debt, at the approaching session of tho French Chambers. Such a measure ought not to be considered by France as a menace. Her pride and nowj er are too well known to expect any thing irum i er lean, ana preciuae tne necessity of a declaration that nothing partaking of the character of intimidation is intended by us. She ought to look upon it as tho evidence only of an inflexible determination on the part of the United States, to insist on their rights. That Government, bv doing only what it has itself acknowledged to be just, will be able to spare the Unitod States the necessity of taking redress into their own hands, and save the property of French citizens from that seizure and sequestration which American citizens so long endured without retaliation or redress. If she should continue to refuse that act of acknowledged justice, and io violation cf the law of nations, make reprisals on our part the occasion of hostilities against the United States, she would but add violence to injustice, and could not fail to expose herself to the just censure of civilized nations and to the rctributrro judgments of Heaven. Collision with France is the more to Le regretcd, on account of the position she occupies in Europe in relation to liberal institutions. But in maintsining our national rights and honor, all Governments aro alike to us. If by a collision with France, in a case where she is clearly in the wrong, the march of liberal principles shall bo impeded , the responsibility for tint result, as well as every other, will rest on Uer own head. Having submitted these coniidcrationf, it belongs to Congress to decide, whether, after what has taken place, it will still a wait the further action of the French Chambers, or now adopt euch provisional measures, as it may deem necessary and best adapted to protect the rights and maintain the honor of the country. Whatever that decision may be, it will be faithfully enforced by the Executive, as far as he is authorized so to do. According to the estimates of the Trea sury Department, the revenue accruhtji from all sources, during the present year. win amount to twenty millions srt hua ; mated at twenty-five atlliem fivf i227i