President $ Message.
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FeLLosp Citizens of tbe senafe.

 apd House of Representatives..

 It gives me pleasure to congratulate YOU upon your return to the Seat of Government, for the purpose oi dis charging your duties 10 the people of the United States. Although the pes tiience which had travefsed the old world has entered our limits, and ex- tended its Favages over much of our land, 1t has pleased Almighty God to mitigate itsseverity, and lessen the mum ber of its victims, compared with these who have fallen in most other countries over which 1t has spread its terfors.--- Notwithstanding this visitation, ouf country presents, on every side, marks ofprosperity and happiness, unequalled, perhaps, in any other portion of the world. live fully appreciate our com parativc condition, existing causes Of diseontent will appear unworthy of at tentlon, and with hearts of thanhialness to that Divine Being who has filled ep our cup of prosperity, we shall feel our resolution stfengthened.to preserveand hand down to postcrity that liberty and that union which we have received from our Fathers, and which constitute the sources and the shield of all our bles- sings.

 The relations of our country contin. ue to present the same picture oi aml- cable intercourse that l mad the satls faction to hold up to your view at tie opening Of your last. session. The same friendly professions, the same desire to participate iu our llourisiling commerce, the same disposition to refraia from in- iuries unintentionally offered, are, with few exceptions, eyinced by all the na' tions with whom we have. any inter- course. This desirable state of things, may be mainly ascrlbed 10 our undesi- ating practice of the rule which has long guided our national policy, to re- quire no exclusive privileges in com merce, and to grant none. Il IS daily producing it's beneficial effect in the res pect shown to our flag, the protection Of our citizens and their property abroad, and in the increase of our navl, gation and the extension of our mer. : eantilc operations. The returns which have been made out since we last met will show an increase during the pre- ceding year of more than S0,o0O tons in our shipping, and of near forty mil lions of dollars in the aggregate ot oul imports and exports.

 Nor have we less reason to felicitats ourselves on the position of our polite al than of our commercial concerns = They remain in the state in which the, were when last addressed you-a stat' of prosperity and peace, the effect os wise attention to the parting advice 0 the revered Father of his country, o this subject, condensed into maxin

 for the use of posterity, by one ot m

 most distinguished successors, to cult vate free commerce and honest frlene ship with all nations, but to make er angling alliances with none, A strlt adherence to this policy has kept |