Stryker's American Register and Magazine Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... DOCUMENTS. STATE PAPERS. (The great length of the President's annual message, renders it impossible to insert it entire in the present number; we, therefore, only give a part, reserving the remainder for our next. The annual message is always an important paper, belonging to the political history of the times, and has, therefore, appropriately a place in the Register. It is due to the head of the government, to insert it as written, and not in the mutilated shape of a synopsis.) THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, DEC. 5th, 1848. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: --Under the benignant providence of Almighty God, the representatives of the states and of ihe people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign Arbiter of all human events, should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. The troubled and unsettled condition of some of the principal European powers has had a necessary tendency to check and embarrass trade, and to depress prices thioughout all commercial nations; but notwithstanding these causes, the United States, with their abundant products, have felt their effects less severely than any other country, and all our great interests are still prosperous and successful. In reviewing the great events of the past year, and contrasting the agitated and disturbed state of other countries with our own happy and tranquil condition, we may congratulate ourselves that we are the most favoured people on the face of the earth. While the people of other countries are struggling to es...