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012 - Andrew Jackson December 1 1834 part 1 · State of the Union Addresses 1829-1836

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  Speaker 1: Section twelve of State of the Union Addresses eighteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine to eighteen thirty six. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Andrew Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: December one, eighteen thirty four. Part one, Fellow citizens of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate and of the House of Representatives, in performing
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  Speaker 1: my duty at the opening of your present session, it
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  Speaker 1: gives me pleasure to congratulate you again upon the prosperous
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  Speaker 1: condition of our beloved country. Divine Providence has favored us
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  Speaker 1: with general health, with rich rewards in the fields of
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  Speaker 1: agriculture and in every branch of labor, and with peace
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  Speaker 1: to cultivate and extend the various resources which employ the
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  Speaker 1: virtue and enterprise of our citizens. Let us trust that,
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  Speaker 1: in surveying a scene so flattering to our free institutions,
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  Speaker 1: our joint deliberations to preserve them may be crowned with success.
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  Speaker 1: Our foreign relations continue, with but few exceptions, to maintain
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  Speaker 1: the favorable aspect which they bore in my last annual message,
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  Speaker 1: and promised to extend those advantages which the principles that
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  Speaker 1: regulate our intercourse with other nations are so well calculated
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  Speaker 1: to secure. The question of our northeast boundaries still pending
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  Speaker 1: with Great Britain, and the proposition made in accordance with
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  Speaker 1: the resolution of the Senate for the establishment of a
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  Speaker 1: line according to the Treaty of seventeen eighty three, has
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  Speaker 1: not been accepted by that government. Believing that every disposition
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  Speaker 1: is felt on both sides to adjust this perplexing question
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  Speaker 1: to the satisfaction of all the party's interests in it,
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  Speaker 1: the hope is yet indulged that it may be effected
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  Speaker 1: on the basis of that proposition. With the governments of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Holland,
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  Speaker 1: Sweden and Denmark. The best understanding exists. Commerce withal is
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  Speaker 1: fostered and protected by reciprocal goodwill under the sanction of liberal,
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  Speaker 1: conventional or legal provisions. In the midst of her internal difficulties,
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Spain has ratified the Convention for the
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  Speaker 1: Payment of the Claims of our Citizens arising since eighteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: It is in the course of execution on her part,
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  Speaker 1: and a copy of it is now laid before you,
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  Speaker 1: for such legislation as may be found necessary to enable
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  Speaker 1: those interested to derive the benefits of it. Yielding to
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  Speaker 1: the force of circumstances and to the wise counsels of
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  Speaker 1: time and experience, that power has finally ruin resolve, no
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  Speaker 1: longer to occupy the unnatural position in which she stood,
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  Speaker 1: to the new governments established in this hemisphere. I have
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  Speaker 1: the great satisfaction of stating to you that, in preparing
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  Speaker 1: the way for the restoration of harmony between those who
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  Speaker 1: have sprung from the same ancestors, who are allied by
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  Speaker 1: common interests, profess the same religion, and speak the same language,
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  Speaker 1: the United States have been actively instrumental. Our efforts to
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  Speaker 1: effect this good work will be persevered in while they
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  Speaker 1: are deemed useful to the parties, and our entire disinterestedness
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  Speaker 1: continues to be felt and understood. The Act of Congress
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  Speaker 1: to countervail the discriminating duties to the prejudice of our
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  Speaker 1: navigation levied in Cuba and Puerto Rico has been transmitted
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  Speaker 1: to the Minister of the United States at Madrid, to
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  Speaker 1: be communicated to the government of the US Queen. No
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  Speaker 1: intelligence of its receipt has yet reached the Department of State.
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  Speaker 1: If the present condition of the country permits the government
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  Speaker 1: to make a careful and enlarged examination of the true
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  Speaker 1: interests of these important portions of its dominions. No doubt
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  Speaker 1: is entertained that their future intercourse with the United States
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  Speaker 1: will be placed upon a more just and liberal basis.
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  Speaker 1: The Florida archives have not yet been selected and delivered.
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  Speaker 1: Recent orders have been sent to the Agent of the
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  Speaker 1: United States at Havana to return with all that he
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  Speaker 1: can obtain, so that they may be in Washington before
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  Speaker 1: the session of the Supreme Court, to be used in
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  Speaker 1: the legal questions they are pending, to which the government
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  Speaker 1: is a party. Internal tranquility is happily restored to Portugal,
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  Speaker 1: the distracted state of the country rendered unavoidable the postponement
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  Speaker 1: of a final payment of the just claims of our citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Our diplomatic relations will be soon resumed, and the long
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  Speaker 1: subsisting friendship without power affords the strongest guarantee that the
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  Speaker 1: balance will receive prompt attention. The first installment due under
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  Speaker 1: the Convention of Indemnity with the King of the Two
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  Speaker 1: Sicilies has been duly received, and an offer has been
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  Speaker 1: made to extinguish the whole by a prompt payment. An
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  Speaker 1: offer i did not consider myself authorized to accept, as
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  Speaker 1: the indemnification provided is the exclusive property of individual citizens
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  Speaker 1: of the United States. The original adjustment of our claims,
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  Speaker 1: and the anxiety displayed to fulfill it once the stipulations
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  Speaker 1: made for the payment of them, are highly honorable to
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  Speaker 1: the government of the two Sicilies, when it is recollected
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  Speaker 1: that they were the result of the injustice of an
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  Speaker 1: intrusive power temporarily dominant in its territory, a repugnance to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge and to pay which would have been neither unnatural
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  Speaker 1: nor unexpected. The circumstances cannot fail to exalt its character
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  Speaker 1: for justice and good faith in the eyes of all nations.
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  Speaker 1: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States
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  Speaker 1: and Belgium, brought to your notice in my last annual Message,
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  Speaker 1: as sanctioned by the Senate, but the ratifications of which
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  Speaker 1: had not been exchanged, owing to a delay in its
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  Speaker 1: reception at Brussels and a subsequent absence of the Belgian
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  Speaker 1: Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been, after mature deliberation, finally
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  Speaker 1: disavowed by that government as inconsistent with the powers and
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  Speaker 1: instructions given to their minister, who negotiated it. This disavowal
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  Speaker 1: was entirely unexpected, as the liberal principles embodied in the
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  Speaker 1: convention and which formed the groundwork of the objections to it,
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  Speaker 1: were perfectly satisfactory to the Belgian representative and were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be not only within the powers granted, but expressly
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  Speaker 1: conformable to the instructions given to him. An offer, not
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  Speaker 1: yet accepted, has been made by Belgium to renew negotiations
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  Speaker 1: for a treaty less liberal in its provisions on questions
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  Speaker 1: of general maritime law. Our newly established relations with the
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  Speaker 1: Sublime Porte promised to be useful to our commerce and
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  Speaker 1: satisfactory in every respect to this government. Our intercourse with
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  Speaker 1: the Barbary powers continues without important change, except that the
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  Speaker 1: present political state of Algiers has induced me to terminate
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  Speaker 1: the residents there of a salary consul and to substitute
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  Speaker 1: an ordinary consolate to remain so long as the place
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  Speaker 1: continues in the possession of France. Our first treaty with
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  Speaker 1: one of these powers, the Emperor of Morocco, was formed
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty six and was limited to fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: That period has almost expired. I shall take measures to
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  Speaker 1: renew it with the greater satisfaction, as its stipulations are
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  Speaker 1: just and liberal, and have been, with mutual fidelity and
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  Speaker 1: reciprocal advantage scrupulously fulfilled. In Testine. Dissensions have too frequently
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  Speaker 1: occurred to mar the prosperity, interrupt the commerce, and distract
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  Speaker 1: the governments of most of the nations of this hemisphere,
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  Speaker 1: which have separated themselves from Spain. When a firm and
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  Speaker 1: permanent understanding with the parent country shall have produced a
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  Speaker 1: formal acknowledgement of their independence, and the idea of danger
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  Speaker 1: from that quarter can be no longer entertained, the friends
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  Speaker 1: of freedom expect that those countries so favored by nature
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  Speaker 1: will be distinguished for their love of justice and their
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  Speaker 1: devotion to those peaceful arts, the assiduous cultivation of which
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  Speaker 1: confers honour upon nations and gives value to human life.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, I confidently hope that the apprehensions entertained
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  Speaker 1: that some of the people of these luxuriant regions may
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  Speaker 1: be tempted, in a moment of unworthy distrust of their
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  Speaker 1: own capacity for the enjoyment of liberty, to commit the
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  Speaker 1: too common error of purchasing present reposed by bestowing on
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  Speaker 1: some favorite leaders, the fatal gift of irresponsible power will
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  Speaker 1: not be realized. With all these governments, and with that
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  Speaker 1: of Brazil, no unexpected changes in our relations have occurred
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  Speaker 1: during the present year. Frequent causes of just complaint have
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  Speaker 1: a reas and upon the part of the citizens of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, sometimes from the irregular action of the
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  Speaker 1: constituted subordinate authorities of the maritime regions, and sometimes from
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  Speaker 1: the leaders or partisans of those in arms against the
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  Speaker 1: established governments. In all cases, representations have been or will
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  Speaker 1: be made, and as soon as their political affairs are
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  Speaker 1: in a settled position, it is expected that our friendly
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  Speaker 1: remonstrances will be followed by adequate redress. The government of
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  Speaker 1: Mexico made known in December last the appointment of commissioners
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  Speaker 1: and a Surveyor on its part to run, in conjunction
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  Speaker 1: with ours, the boundary line between its territories and the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and excused the delay for the reasons anticipated
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  Speaker 1: the prevalence of civil war. The commissioners and Surveyors not
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  Speaker 1: having met within the time stipulated by the treaty, a
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  Speaker 1: new arrang became necessary, and our charge d'a fair was
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  Speaker 1: instructed in January eighteen thirty three to negotiate in Mexico
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  Speaker 1: an article additional to the pre existing treaty. This instruction
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  Speaker 1: was acknowledged, and no difficulty was apprehended in the accomplishment
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  Speaker 1: of that object. By information just received, that additional article
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  Speaker 1: to the treaty will be obtained and transmitted to this
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  Speaker 1: country as soon as it can receive the ratification of
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  Speaker 1: the Mexican Congress. The reunion of the three states of
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  Speaker 1: New Grenada, Venezuela, and Ecuador, forming the Republic of Colombia,
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  Speaker 1: seems every day to become more improbable. The commissioners of
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  Speaker 1: the two first are understood to be now negotiating a
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  Speaker 1: just division of the obligations contracted by them when united
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  Speaker 1: under one government. The civil war in Ecuador, it is believed,
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  Speaker 1: has prevented even the appointment of a commissioner on its part.
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  Speaker 1: I propose at an early day to submit in the
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  Speaker 1: proper form the appointment of a diplomatic agent to Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: The importance of the commerce of that country to the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and the large claims of our citizens upon
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  Speaker 1: the government arising before and since the division of Columbia,
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  Speaker 1: rendering it in my judgment, improper longer to delay this step.
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  Speaker 1: Our representatives who Central America, Peru, and Brazil are either
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  Speaker 1: at or on their way to their respective posts from
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  Speaker 1: the Argentine Republic from which a minister was expected to
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  Speaker 1: this government. Nothing further has been heard. Occasion has been
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  Speaker 1: taken on the departure of a new consul to wuyenas
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  Speaker 1: Eries to remind that government that its long delayed minister,
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  Speaker 1: whose appointment had been made known to us, had not arrived.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes my unpleasant duty to inform you that this
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  Speaker 1: pacific and highly gratifying picture of our foreign relations does
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  Speaker 1: not include those with France at this time. It is
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  Speaker 1: not possible that any government and people could be more
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  Speaker 1: sincerely desirous of conciliating a just and friendly intercourse with
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  Speaker 1: another nation than are those of the United States with
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  Speaker 1: their ancient ally and friend This disposition is founded as
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  Speaker 1: well on the most grateful and honorable recollections associated with
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  Speaker 1: our struggle for independence, as upon a well grounded conviction
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  Speaker 1: that it is consonant with the true policy of both
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  Speaker 1: The people of the United States could not therefore see
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  Speaker 1: without the deepest regret, even a temporary interruption of the
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  Speaker 1: friendly relations between the two countries, a regret which would,
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  Speaker 1: I am sure, be greatly aggravated if there should turn
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  Speaker 1: out to be any reasonable ground for attributing such a
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  Speaker 1: result to any act of omission or commission on our part.
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  Speaker 1: I derived therefore the highest satisfaction from being able to
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  Speaker 1: assure you that the whole course of this government has
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  Speaker 1: been characterized by a spirit so conciliatory and for bearing
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  Speaker 1: as to make it impossible that our justice and moderation
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  Speaker 1: should be questioned, whatever may be the consequences of a
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  Speaker 1: longer perseverance on the part of the French government in
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  Speaker 1: her omission to satisfy the conceited claims of our citizens.
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  Speaker 1: The history of the accumulated and unprovoked aggressions upon our
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  Speaker 1: commerce committed by authority of the existing governments of France
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  Speaker 1: between the years eighteen hundred and eighteen seventeen has been
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  Speaker 1: rendered too painfully familiar to Americans to make its repetition
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  Speaker 1: either necessary or desirable. It will be sufficient here to
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  Speaker 1: remark that there has for many years been scarcely a
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  Speaker 1: single administration of the French government, by whom the justice
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  Speaker 1: and legality of the claims of our sa citizens to
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  Speaker 1: indemnity were not, to a very considerable extent admitted, and
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  Speaker 1: yet near a quarter of a century has been wasted
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  Speaker 1: in ineffectual negotiations to secure it. Deeply sensible of the
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  Speaker 1: injurious effects resulting from this state of things upon the
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  Speaker 1: interests and character of both nations, I regarded it as
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  Speaker 1: among my first duties to cause one more effort to
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  Speaker 1: be made to satisfy France that a just and liberal
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  Speaker 1: settlement of our claims was as well due to her
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  Speaker 1: own honor as to their incontestable validity. The negotiation for
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  Speaker 1: this purpose was commenced with the late government of France,
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  Speaker 1: and was prosecuted with such success as to leave no
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  Speaker 1: reasonable ground to doubt that a settlement of a character
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  Speaker 1: quite as liberal as that which was subsequently made would
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  Speaker 1: have been effected had not the revolution by which the
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  Speaker 1: negotiation was cut off taken place. The discussions were resumed
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  Speaker 1: with the present government, and the results showed that we
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  Speaker 1: were not wrong in supposing that an event by which
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  Speaker 1: the two governments were made to approach each other so
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  Speaker 1: much nearer in their political principles, and by which the
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  Speaker 1: motives for the most liberal and friendly intercourse were so
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  Speaker 1: greatly multiplied could exercise no other than a salutary influence
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  Speaker 1: upon the negotiation. After the most deliberate and thorough examination
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  Speaker 1: of the whole subject, a treaty between the two governments
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  Speaker 1: was concluded and signed at Paris on July fourth, eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, by which it was stipulated that the French government,
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  Speaker 1: in order to liberate itself from all the reclamations preferred
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  Speaker 1: against it by citizens of the United States for unlawful seizures, captures,
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  Speaker 1: sea questrations, confiscations or destruction of their vessels, cargoes or
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  Speaker 1: other property engages, to pay a sum of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million francs to the United lace States, who shall distribute
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  Speaker 1: it among those entitled in the manner and according to
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  Speaker 1: the rules it shall determine. And it was also stipulated
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  Speaker 1: on the part of the French government that this twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million francs should be paid at Paris in six
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  Speaker 1: annual installments of four million, one hundred and sixty six thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty six francs and sixty six song teams,
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  Speaker 1: each into the hands of such personal persons as shall
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  Speaker 1: be authorized by the Government of the United States to
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  Speaker 1: receive it, the first installment to be paid at the
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  Speaker 1: expiration of one year next following the exchange of the
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  Speaker 1: ratifications of this Convention, and the others at successive intervals
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  Speaker 1: of a year, one after another, till the whole shall
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  Speaker 1: be paid. To the amount of each of the set
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  Speaker 1: installment shall be added interest at four percent, thereupon, as
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  Speaker 1: upon the other installments then remaining unpaid, the set to
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  Speaker 1: be computed from the day of the exchange of the
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  Speaker 1: present convention. It was also stipulated, on the part of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, for the purpose of being completely liberated
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  Speaker 1: from all the reclamations presented by France on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: its citizens, that the sum of one million, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand francs should be paid to the Government of France
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  Speaker 1: in six annual installments, to be deducted out of the
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  Speaker 1: annual sums which France had agreed to pay, interest, thereupon
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  Speaker 1: being in like manner computed from the day of the
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  Speaker 1: exchange of the ratifications. In addition to the stipulation, important
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  Speaker 1: advantages were secured to France by the following article viz.
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  Speaker 1: The Wines of France from and after the exchange of
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  Speaker 1: the ratifications of the present Conventions shall be admitted to
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  Speaker 1: consumption in the States of the Union at duties which
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  Speaker 1: shall not exceed the following rates by the gallon, such
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  Speaker 1: as it is used at present for wine in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, to its six cents for red wines in casks,
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  Speaker 1: ten cents for white wines in casks, and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: cents for wines of all sorts and bottles. The proportions
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  Speaker 1: existing between the duties on French wines thus reduced, and
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  Speaker 1: the general rates of the tariff which went into operation
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  Speaker 1: January one, eighteen twenty nine, shall be maintained in case
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  Speaker 1: the Government of the United States should think proper to
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  Speaker 1: diminish those general rates in a new tariff. In consideration
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  Speaker 1: of this stipulation, which shall be binding on the United
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  Speaker 1: States for ten years, the French government abandons the reclamations
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  Speaker 1: which it had formed in relation to the eighth Article
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  Speaker 1: of the Treaty of Session of Louisiana. It engages moreover
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  Speaker 1: to establish on the long staple cottons of the United States, which,
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  Speaker 1: after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention,
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  Speaker 1: shall brought directly thence to France by the vessels of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, or by French vessels the same duties
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  Speaker 1: as on short staple cotton. This treaty was duly ratified
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  Speaker 1: in the manner prescribed by the constitutions of both countries,
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  Speaker 1: and the ratification was exchanged at the City of Washington
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  Speaker 1: on February two, eighteen thirty two. On account of its
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  Speaker 1: commercial stipulations, it was in five days thereafter laid before
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  Speaker 1: the Congress of the United States, which proceeded to enact
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  Speaker 1: such laws favorable to the commerce of France as were
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  Speaker 1: necessary to carry it into full execution. And France has
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  Speaker 1: from that period to the present been in the unrestricted
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment of the valuable privileges that were thus secured to her.
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  Speaker 1: The faith of the French Nation having been thus solemnly
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  Speaker 1: pledged through its constitutional organ for the liquidation and ultimate
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  Speaker 1: payment of the long deferred claims of our citizens, as
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  Speaker 1: also for the adjustment of other points of great and
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  Speaker 1: reciprocal benefits to both countries, and the United States, having
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  Speaker 1: with a fidelity and promptitude by which their conduct will
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  Speaker 1: I trust be always characterized, done everything that was necessary
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  Speaker 1: to carry the treaty into full and fair effect. On
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  Speaker 1: their part, counted with the most perfect confidence on equal
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  Speaker 1: fidelity and promptitude on the part of the French government.
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  Speaker 1: In this reasonable expectation, we have been I regret to
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  Speaker 1: inform you wholly disappointed. No legislative provision has been made
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  Speaker 1: by France for the execution of the treaty, either as
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  Speaker 1: it respects the indemnity to be paid or the commercial
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  Speaker 1: benefits to be secured to the United States, and the
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  Speaker 1: relations between the United States and that power in consequence thereof,
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  Speaker 1: are placed in a situation threatening to interrupt the good
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  Speaker 1: understanding which has so long and so happily existed between
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  Speaker 1: the two nations. Not only has the French government been
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  Speaker 1: thus wanting in the performance of the stipulations it has
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  Speaker 1: so solemnly entered into with the United States, but its
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  Speaker 1: omissions have been marked by circumstances which would seem to
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  Speaker 1: leave us without satisfactory evidence is that such performance will
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  Speaker 1: certainly take place at a future period. Advice of the
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  Speaker 1: exchange of ratifications reached Paris prior to April eighth, eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. The French Chambers were then sitting and continued
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  Speaker 1: in session until April twenty first, eighteen thirty two, and
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  Speaker 1: although one installment of the indemnity was payable on February second,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty three, one year after the exchange of ratifications,
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  Speaker 1: no application was made to the Chambers for the required appropriation, and,
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  Speaker 1: in consequence of no appropriation having then been made, raft
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  Speaker 1: of the United States Government for that installment was dishonored
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  Speaker 1: by the Minister of Finance, and the United States thereby
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  Speaker 1: involved in much controversy. The next session of the Chambers
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  Speaker 1: commenced on November nineteenth, eighteen thirty two, and continued until
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  Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, eighteen thirty three. Notwithstanding the omission to
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  Speaker 1: pay the first installment had been made the subject of
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  Speaker 1: earnest remonstrance on our part. The treaty with United States,
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  Speaker 1: and a bill making the necessary appropriations to execute it,
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  Speaker 1: were not laid before the Chamber of Deputies until April sixth,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty three, nearly five months after its meeting, and
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  Speaker 1: only nineteen days before the close of the session. The
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  Speaker 1: bill was read and referred to a committee, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no further action upon it. The next session of
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  Speaker 1: the Chambers commenced on April twenty sixth, eighteen thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: and continued until June twenty sixth, eight, eighteen thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: A new bill was introduced on June eleventh, eighteen thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing important was done in relation to it during
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  Speaker 1: the session. In of section twelve