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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1932 1840 Nov 1, M. B.' LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 17 Executive Department
Austin November 1st 1840
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives
The unprecedented success of our Revolution, the continued advancement of our Country in all the essential ele- ments of prosperity, and the high and honorable station which we have been enabled to assume so suddenly among the nations of the earth, must be a source of pride and gratulation to every individual, who is not insensible to the glory of his Country and the happiness of his fellow creatures. A perseverance in the same patriotic and en- lightened policy which has procured these blessings, is the surest means not only of perpetuating them, but of exalting us still higher in the scale of national dignity and importance, and must within a short period, secure a general re9ognition of our Independence by all the distinguished and commercial powers. That we have every reason to be satisfied with our present position in reference to other governments, will be seen in the peaceful and flattering condition of our foreign affairs Towards the United States we continue the same satis- factory relations which subsisted when I last had the honor of address- ing you; whilst [the] 18 friendship established at an early [period be- tween] this country and France has been s[o thoroughly] confirmed, by the lively interest, wh[ich with char]acteristic magna- nimity, she has [continued to man]ifest for our prosperity and [ J Britain our position rema[ ] there are no causes of dissatisfa [ction ] between that government and ours, yet, she still continues to consider it her policy to postpone the formal recognition of our Republic as an independent power; but that this policy will soon give way to a more liberal "and enlightened one, may be anticipated from the tone of some of her leading public journals, as well as from the friendly disposition evinced by her Minister in Mexico, to our Agent in that Country. Indeed the increasing importance of our foreign commerce, will not long permit a Nation Sensible of its true interests to forego the advantages of international communion with us. Aware. of the advantages of securing by treaty an early intercourse with a country whose resources are so abundant as ours, and now in a state of rapid development, the government of Belgium through her Minister in France has indicated a readiness, whenever proper application shall be made, to receive us in the family of Nations. That · Holland enter- tains the like disposition there is very little doubt. It is highly prob- able that a Treaty with one or both these Nations has been already framed, inasmuch as negotiations to this end have been commenced by "Prf.sented to Con'gress Nov. 4; final form printed; House Journal V Congres•, I session, pp 15-26. ~ "Document partly destroyed.
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