WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. prevent our nation from ranning the course obligation which justice and humanity impose which has hitherto marked the destiny of na-on every nation, in cases in which it is free to tions; but if I may even flatter myself that free to act to maintain inviolate the relations they may be productive of some partial bene- of peace and amity towards other nations. fit, some occasional good-that they may now The inducements of interest for observing and then recur to moderate the fury of party that conduct will best be referred to your own spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign reflections and experience. With me, a preintrigue, to guard against the impostures of dominant motive has been to endeavor to gain pretended patriotism-this hope will be a full time to our Country to settle and mature its recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, yet recent institutions, and to progress, withby which they have been dictated. out interruption, to that degree of strength and How far, in the discharge of my official du- consistency, which is necessary to give it, huties, I have been guided by the principles manely speaking, the command of its own forwhich have been delineated, the public records tunes. and other evidences of my conduct must wit- Though in reviewing the incidents of my adness to you and to the world. To myself, the ministration, I am unconscious of intentional assurance of my own conscience is, that I have error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my deat least believed myself to be guided by them. fects not to think it probable that I may have In relation to the still subsisting war in Eu- committed many errors. Whatever they may rope, my proclamation of the 22d of April, be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert 1793, is the index to my plan. Sanctioned by or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. your approving voice, and by that of your Re- I shall also carry with me the hope that my presentatives in both Houses of Congress, the Country will never cease to view them with spirit of that measure has continually governed indulgence; and that after forty-five years of me, uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or my life dedicated to its service, with an updivert me from it. right zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities After deliberate examination, with the aid will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must of the best lights I could obtain, I was well soon be to the mansions of rest. atisfied that our Country, under all the cir- Relying on its kindness in this as in other cumstances of the case, had a right to take, things, and actuated by that fervent love toand was bound in duty and interest, to take a wards it, which is so natural to a man who neutral position. Having taken it, I deter-views in it the native soil of himself and his mined, as far as should depend on me, to progenitors for several generations, I anticimaintain it, with moderation, perseverence pate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in and firmness. which I promise myself to realize, without alThe considerations which respect the right loy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influoccasion to detail. I will only observe, that ence of good laws ander a free Governmentaccording to my understanding of the matter, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the that right, so far from being denied by any of happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, the belligerent powers, has been virtually ad-labers and dangers. mitted by all. The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the States. Maine.. GEORGE WASHINGTON. United States, Sept. 17, 1796. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS FROM EACH STATE. New-Hampshire..... Massachusetts.......................12 Alabama......... No. of Electors in 1844 9 92 New-Jersey Pennsylvania.... Delaware. .12 9 Maryland..... Virginia... North Carolina.... Total,...... 8 Michigan.. 2944, the States in Italies voted for Polk, giving him 170 voter the residue for Clay; giving him 106 votes. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. (December 1st, 1844.) EXECUTIVE--President and Cabinet: JOHN TYLER, of Virginia, President... JOHN C. CALHOUN, of South Carolina, Secretary of State.. JUDICIARY--Supreme Court. ROGER B. TANEY, of Maryland, Chief Justice. Salary $5,000. JOSEPH STORY, of Mass., of New-York, JOHN M'LEAN, of Ohio, of Pennsylvania, Associate Justice. JAMES M. WAYNE, of Georgia, Associate Justice 46 Members. [Salary of Associate Justices $4,500.] Major-General of the Army--WINFIELD SCOTT, of New-Jersey. XXVIIIth CONGRESS. Assembled December 4, 1843: Expires March 3d, 1845. SENATE. Hon. WILLIE P. MANGUM, of North Carolina, President. MAINE. George Evans.. John Fairfield.. Term expires. Members. NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Levi Woodbury. Samuel S. Phelps. MASSACHUSETTS. Rufus Choate... RHODE ISLAND. CONNECTICUT, Jay W. Huntington.. John M. Niles.... NEW-YORK. Daniel S. Dickinson... John A. Dix NEW-JERSEY. William L. Dayton.. Jacob W. Miller.. PENNSYLVANIA. Daniel Sturgeon.. Maine. Massachusetts. Vermont Rhode Island. Connecticut.. DELAWARE. .1847 Richard H. Bayard.. .1851 Thomas Clayton... MARYLAND. .1851 William C. Rires... NORTH CAROLINA. SOUTH CAROLINA. GEORGIA. MISSISSIPPI. 1845 John Henderson.. .1851 Alexander Barrow... New-York, Mississippi and Michigan are morally certain to elect Loco-Focos; making 24 Whigs to 25 Locos, and leaving one each from Virginia, Tennessee and Indiana to settle the political complexion of the next Senate. One of these will give the Loco-Focos a preponderance, as the Vice President (Dallas) has a casting vote. There can be little doubt of a Polk Senate. REGISTER OF ALL THE OFFICERS AND AGENTS, CIVIL, MILITARY AND NAVAL, IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE NAME AND FORCE OF ALL SHIPS AND VESSELS BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES, TOGETHER WITH THE COMPENSATION OF ALL PERSONS IN THE EMPLOY OF THE GOVERNMENT. The following List of United States Officers in the employ of the various Departments of Gov. ernment, has been compiled chiefly from the "REGISTER" prepared at the Department of State, in pur suance of Resolutions of Congress. This work, usually styled the "Blue Book," is more particularly de signed for the use of Government Officers, contains upwards of 800 pages, and is not accessible to the great mass of the People of the Country. EXECUTIVE. Salary per Year. Salary per Year. PRESIDENT UNITED STATES. $25,000 VICE PRESIDENT UNITED STATES. $5,000 STATE DEPARTMENT. Three do. for every Secretary of Legation Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- $9,000 Consuls at Lisbon, St. Ubes, Oporto, Fayal, Fees. Consul at Kingston-upon-Hull, at Liverpool, East Indies Consuls at Bombay, Singapore, China-Consul at Hong Kong. Van Diemen's Land-Consul at Hobart Town, 2,000 Fees. $4,500 Fees. NETHERLANDS. Fees. Charge d'Affaires, (Hague,) $4,500 Consuls at Amsterdam and Rotterdam Fees. Fees. Colonies of the Netherlands-Consuls at Par- Fees. Fees. DANISH DOMINIONS. $4,500 Fees. Consuls at Copenhagen, Colsinem and Altona.. Fees. Fees. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Fees. $4,500 Fees. Consuls at Stockholm, Gothenburg and Bergen. Feas. Fees. Fees. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary, (Berlin,) $9,000 Secretary of Legation 2,000 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, (St. Petersburg,). Consul at Stettin Fees. $9,000 Consuls at Elberfield Fees. $3,000 $9,000 Consuls at Weahoa, Otaheite, and Bay of Isl's, Fees. 2,000 HAYTI, OR SAN DOMINGO. Fees. Commercial Agent at Port Republican, Aux} Fees. Fees. Cayes, and Cape Haytien Fees. Fees. Brazoria, and Velasco... Fees. $4,500 Fees. MEXICAN REPUBLIC. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, (Mexico,).. $9,000 Secretary of Legution.. 2,000 Fees. Consuls at Mexico, Santa Fe, Tampico, Vera $4,500 Fees. Fees. Fees. Central America-Consuls at Guatemala and Grenada.. Fees. |