Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-08-15

eh'isied to his loyalty and imnu,ab,e 6deIi,y,
aOmal'cr what nominal obligations he NAV
hage incurred in any other country.
me principle, that an individual owes an al.
legiance 10 the country Of his nativity. ID sgs.
ained by most writers on international law.
and that his allegiance is no, only Deyps,lqI lg,
intrinsic, and which cannot be diyested by any
act Of his own, is regarded by many asa fonda.
mental principle. II is also the doctrine Of the
common Tar, that an Individual owes a natural
ana perpetual allegiance 10 the government OF
the country IN which he was born; and this.
too, IS the doctrine Of the European govern.
ments, and that Of England especially, which
insists that subject born in England, aad emf
grating from that 10 foreign country, and ia.
king commission from a foreign Prince, and
engaged IN war against England, is guilty OF
treason, and liable TO be prosecuted to condem.
nation and punishment for that offence. Tho
right 10 call the subjects Of Great Britain from
iorcgn country, or from foreign service,
wherever they may have departed, is rot only
claimed bat exercised by the British Govern.
men;.
In October, 1907, the King Of England, y
sued his proclamation retaining from lorcI
service all sedmen and sca-farlg meV 20
were natural born subjects, whcrcyg ,eg
IN
for their omission TO obey The callF 1914,
the Senate Of the United States, Il uDg1
the President by resolution, 10 J.-r them
what had been the practice ~ lreat Britain
concerning her native subie2 na,uralizcd in
other countries, and taken aWrms against her
and In answer to that RESI- Eion, i, was stated
that the British Government arrests as traitors.
and menaces with death, persons supposed to|
DC British subjects, for having fought UNDER
or standard against the British force. although
they had voluntarily entered into our army.
amer having emIgrated to the United States.
and incorporated themselves into the Ameri-I
can society. And 1t has become an historically
TACT, That during the late war with England. /
many native born subjects Of The King of Great
Britain, who had been naturaized in America. II
ana were taken prisoners on the North Wes-I +
Tern Frontier, were transported to England 10
DC lred Tor treason against their King Ii
lhe governments ofEuropc afford no CORE. "a
latlve facilities for citizenship to foreigners, on &c
Inc contrary their laws are strictly prohibitory In
of such privileges, and if they deem it necessa.
ry to protect themselves from foreign naturali a
cation who have comparatively so few question %
able adyenturers, rcsorting 10 their shores. e
what protective provisions should re not enact
whose country is rapidly exchanging the proud O.
title Of the Asylum ofthc oppressed and pcrse- o.
cuted, for that Of "thc common sewer Of the Lon
worId?" I'm
Thus II appears, through our short-sighted P
policy, IN order to increase our population, orI 70
from weak and mbeciIe philanthropy, we
prostitute our giorlous rights and privileges 10 in
the stranger, the alien and the secret enemy al
who nevertheless still continue to retain all the al
natural propensitles which mankind universal m
ly possess 10 sustain the institutions of the oc
country which gave them birth-as well as the Ito
claim OF natural allegiance which those coun- he
tries have upon them, together with the liabi- Ito
ty OF being recalled by their native ooveregns, hu
and IN case of neglect to obey such call, and ne
OIL bclng taken IN arms against their native i'm
countries, TO be subject to condemnation, and fiji
me punishment OF death for treason. Itic
The PernIclous system Of naturalization has tel
already cost our country a countless amount
OF blood and treasure, for one Of the principal of
causes which led 10 the last war with Great to
britain, was the improssment, or rather the re- fir
clomahon from on board of our ships, Of Brit bi
lsh subjects who had either been naturalizcd or in
who had obtained American protectons,- sand q
causes Of new difficulties with Great Britain fe
on similar subject, appears TO have been ag- p;
tated in Congress within the last few days.
THELLER, one OF the prominent Canadian pa 10
trlots, as he calls HIMSELF has recently presen- III
ted to Congress, memorial in which he states in
that, "dhhough condemned TO death on The ground m
that he cdS citizen Of the United States, get he til
acas only naturaized citizen, and not aatire" gl
or IN other words, that although he was enti- Of
tied 10 the protection Of our laws, because he b
was naturalized, yet he was not amenable toall
the llabities,-the pains and penalties Of an iii
American found in arms against a State with pe
which our country was at peace, because he oil
was not native. h.
And Congress has condesccndcd to entertain, u,
and refer to committee the nsolent applica- be
ton OF this pseudo--this mongrel American, th
who IS DESTROYS that our country should resent III
his condemnation by the British government. ia
This specimen of foreign insoience and AFRO 81
gance is somewhat the reverse of that Of ano OF
Their impairment foreigner, Gen. Won Schotz, II
who has been recently hanged in Canada, for di
similar offences, who left in his will the pre-
posterous injunction that the American people al
would not revenge his death. "
In the name of heaven what do foreigners &c
think ofus, or what will become of our country, N
if from our quixotic feelings of benevolence,
she is to become responsible for the crimes and tn
offences OF every being who may happen to GU
come amongst us from every quarter Of the tn
globe. -
Americans are you prepared TO enter into
collision with all the powers of the world on ac-
count ofevery foreign agitator, who may choose 50
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