Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-04-05
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Numerous essarshne been written 10 II
ius'ra'e the pedect right which nation
pos sses 10 hsna,ive citizsns or subjects,
soil the re arc those who do not or will
not understand The question. As the
matter IN d s,nle between this country
aud England j, narrowed down TO SIN.
g,e point, ". that of protec ing Enghsh.
men who m, be nstufalzgd before the
conclusion ct tie war OF board United
States nereaaat YES els, we Ask the at
teniion OF our readers to he following
remarks on hi suffice, published in The
Vrg,nia dygz. Fen 22l 1915, eGi'ed
by iYamne! PfdsGHis Esq one OF the most
independent ad ably conducted p.pets
OF the demoaalc party IN he United
ste.. | requires no comment. u Is
So tuu, 81 clear and so much IN point,
I" tia he hist runs may read"
As the session OF Congress draws
10 its close, the National Legislature Is
pressed with important propositions.
/ he bill for the exclusion oil foreign
seamen rom v.s-,s OF rte United
States is the mon prominent, and Ger.
tainly the most Interesting. Ii had
been our intention o present the read
ers OF the Argus nth some remarks on
that measure but he turn which the
question has tskeb the shhtiing which
ii has occssioned among the reiHbh
cans as well as tedralists, has made US
r, served lest, upo\ a subject imperfect
ly understood, thqlecRaayffy OF our o
pinion might onlycnd 10 distract, At
the time when very effort should
De made To harhonize. We shall
merely take the lietty To put upon re.
cord our dissent the creed that the
bill, as IL has gomup from the House
% the Senate will settle the diHtren.
ces between this cuntry and e.. Britain,
which have grown oul of her practice
OF impressment. Nor do we believe
that the pro,islonof that bill, as they
now stand, go effetuslly to the piih of
the dispute. As I: basis of these SEN
limlnts, we also tae the liberty OF sta
ting -
/. That the riht Of expatriation is
a question bslwca subject and his
government and ne between nation u
nalion.
. A nation, fro, policy, may fight
for the privilege ohaturalizing foreign.
ers bu, ii she doe so, she fights for
the policy and no, or the right and
the opposing naIiot with equal justice,
may fight against
s That the ocan is common, o.
yer which there isno special jurisdic-
ton.
q That ever independent nation
has an absolute rtht OF transit for law
full things on the,eean, because il is u
common.
That theldg OF every indepen-
dent nation has ,erlect right to protect
on the ocean whatever ii mafaLly repre-.
sents'
6. That tn American flag, there
fore, ought to rotec. every thing that
Is y AMERICAN.
7. That a aturalized citizen is on.
ly citizen elylqrle /; for, although the
laws Of the Tilted States na,uralizcd
him his origiql sovereign never releds-
ed him from Is allegiance.
s, That although the American
flag has petct right to protect what
ever is Amecan, it has no right at all
to protect wat Is British
9. Thathe right OF transit for our
vessels oyerne watery common, is Ii
able 10 interruption, from the oircum
apce ofths American lag covering
British suhjtis
10. Thathe interruption only be-
comes an ablWe s9rong, when British