The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-08 00:00:00

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VIZ RIGHTS OP
CITIZENS NATURALISED AMERICAN

The Nero York Tranine of the 23rd ult., commenting on

• iebate in the Senate, ear :
"In the recent debate in the Senate on the rights of
naturalised citizens, it is asesrted by Senators Itsverdy
Johnson, Sumner, and Comets that Enghind claim that
her citizens cannot absolve themselves from their elk-
gianoe to Great Britain. We do not regard this as •
candid statement of the position taken by England, and by
every European government except France, on this qua*.
thou. No European government has claimed the right to
interfere with the exclusive allegiance of our naturalised
citizens to the United States so long as they remain in the
United States. By the war of 1812 we sought to make
the effect of naturalisation 00-extensive with our flag,
whether on sea or land. But during none of our wars
has • foreign power claimed either the obligation or
the right to shield • naturalised citizen from any
of the liabilities incurred by him as a citizen of the
United States. They have respected our naturalisation
laws as the valid local law within the domain for which
they were enacted. Had they not done so, they might
have utterly demoralized our armies and our whole military
!system, by demanding the exemption of our naturalised
citizens from the draft. Our law far the naturalisation
of foreigners, and the law of any foreign state against the
expatriation of its citizens, are laws of the same local
character—valid within the domain or under the flag of
the power which enacted them, and not beyond it. We
ran no more interfere with the sovereignty of an indepen-
dent European power to restrain it from enacting that
every person born on its soil shall ho under perpetual
allegiance to its government, than the European power
can restrain us from enacting the terms on which the same
citizen may absolve himself froin all oblgiations to
, that power; both rights harmonies, provided neither
power attempts to enforce its domestic laws within the
domain or under the Hag of the other. When senators
declare that Prussia denies the right of her citizens to
absolve themselves from allegianss, we answer, 'No !
she only denies that the law of the United Stat.% under
which they so absolve themselves is in force within
the territory of Prussia.' If. when the citizen leaves
Prussia and enters the United States, he comes under our
law, why, when be leaves the United States and enters
Prussia, does he not COO 3 0 under the law of Prussia ? The
I United States, if they choose, may invest every person
who lands on our shores the moment he lands, and
whether his stay is short or permanent, by act of his own
or without it, with &lithe rights and responsibilities of citi.
unship. Prussia may, if there are no treaties to preven
u t
,
make a citizen of Prussia of any perms entering
her domain, whether he is • native or natural-
ised citizen of the United States. This is one of
1 the attributes of national sovereignty. If she chooses
to select our naturalised citizens, and regard them as
citizens of Prussia, it is her own affair. Our citizens who
enter her territory voluntarily have notice of the cones-
!!uences of doing so, and can no more complain of her law
than those entering the United States can complain be-
cause we require them to reside here five years before be-
coming citizens. Can we then claim the right to make
our naturalisation laws binding within the territory of
foreign powers! We can best answer this by asking
whether foreign powers can make their laws of perpetual
allegiance binding within our territory. Certainly not.
Whatever immunities we wish to secure to our citizens,
whether native or naturalised, who voluntarily place them-
selves under the operation of the local laws of other coun-
tries must be secured by treaty. In ease of the invasion
of his native country by a naturalised citizen serving in
the army of his adopted count ry, he would be at ones!
under the conflicting juriediction of the flag _under which
be served and of the territory which he had invaded.
But this conflicting jurisdiction is inseparable from all in-
vasion, and its questions must be decided by the sword."