.W E s S,.A G E:

To the Senate and House of
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.W E s S..H c E:

 To the Senate and House of

 Representatives of Lse United States:

 We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the great Creator of

 all things for numberless benefits conferred 1 upon us as a people. Blessed with genial ! seasons, the husbandman has his gamers l filled with abundance, and the necessaries I of life, not to speak of its luxuries abound in every direction. While in some other

 nations steady and industrious labor can

 hardly find the means of subsistence, the greatpst evil which we have to encounter is

 a surplus of production beyond the home

 demand, which seeks, and with difficulty | finds, q partial market in other regions The health of the country, with partial ex- captions, has for the past year been well 1 preserved and, under their free and wise 1 institutions, the United States are rapidly advancing towards the consumu1ation of the | high destiny which an over-ruling Provi- dence seems to have marked out for them. Exempt from domestic con vulsion, and at peace with the world, we are left free to

 consult as 10 the best means of securing and l advancing the happiness of the people, Such are the circumstances under which ] you now assemble in your respective cham-

 bers, and which should lead us to unite in

 praise and thanksgiving to that great Being ! who made us, and who preserves us as a

 nation.

 congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the happy change in the aspects of our foreign affairs since my last annual message. Cau-

 sos of complaint at that time existed be- tween the United States and Great Britain,

 which, attended by irritating circumstances

 threatened most seriously the public peace.

 The difficulty of adjusting amicably the questions at issue between the two countries

 was in no small degree augmented by the

 the lapse of time since they had their origin.

 The opinions entertained by the Executive

 on several of the leading topics in dispute,

 were frankly set forth in the message at the

 opening of your late session. The appoint

 ment of q special minister by Great Britain

 to the United States, with power to nego-

 tiate upon most of the points of difference,

 indicated desire on her part amicably to adjust them, and that minister was met by the Exccrtive in the same spirit which had

 dictated his mission. The treaty conse-

 quent thereon, having been duly ratified by

 the two governments, a copy, together with the correspondence which accompanied it is herewith communicated. l trust that whilst you may see in it nothing objection. able, it may be the means of preserving, for m indefinite period, the amicable relations

 happily existing between the two govern

 ments.

 The question of peace or war between

 the United States and Great Britain, is question of the deepest interest, not only 10 themselves, but to the civilized world. since it is scarcely possible that war could exist between them without endangering the peace of Christendom. The immediate ho felt in the security afforded to mercantile enterprise, which, no longer apprehensive of interruption, adventures it's speculations in the most distant sea and, frcighted with the diversified productions of every land, return to bless our own. There is nothing

 in the treaty. which, in the slightest degree, compromits the honor and dignity of either nation. Next to the settlement ot the boun- dary line, which must always be matter 'of difficulty between states as between in- dividuals, the question which seemed to threaten the greatest embarrassment. was that connected with the African slave trade.

 Bv the 10th article of the treaty of Ghent

 it was expressly declared that "whcreas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with ihe principles of humanity and justice ; and whereas both his Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their ef- forts to promote its entire abolition. it is hereby agreed that both the contracting

 parties shall use their best endeavors 10 accomplish so desirable an object" In the enforcement of the laws and treaty siipula- tions of Great Britain, practice had threa- tened to grow up on the part of its cruisers of .nbjecting to visitation. ships sailing un- der ihc American faG, which, while it seri- ously involved our maritime rights. would subject to vexaiion branch of our trade

 which was increasing. and which required the fostering care of the goverrnT ri.

 And although Lord Aberdeen, in his cor

 respondence with the American Envoys at

 LonGon, expressly disclaimed all right fo

 detain any American ship on the high seas,

 even if found with a cargo of slaves on

 board, and restricted the British pretension to uaere claiso to visit aud enquire, yet #