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THE NATURALIZATION LAW OF MOSES.
Extract from Professor Vines on the Ciuil
Government Of The He6rews.

~ proceed toanexposition of the provision
of the Hebrew Constitution, in reference to
the admIssion'of foreigners 10 the right of
citizenship And, if ] mistake not, we shall
ind 1t characterized by the same wise and
patriotic forecast which marks all the other
enactments of this admirable code.n
~ sympathlze, most sincerely, with an ell
oquent rebuke, administered by distinguish
ed Divine but few weeks ago, in one OF the
PulPits oil this city, of that mercenary patriot
Ism which would repel from our shores the
iriendless and the oppressed of other climes.
say emphalically, Let them come p Let
every ship that enters our harbors pour them
by hundreds upon our soil. The first civil
lzed men who settled as permanent residents
on this continent, sought, in the then howl
ing wilderness, among savages and wild
beasts,a refuge from tyranny and oppression:
home where they could breathe the air of
freedom, where they could think without a
master, and above all where they could wor-
ship God withou. asking titled and purse
proud hierarchy when, or where. or how
God forbid that civilized and christianized
IAmerica,-America blessed with free jpsti,u-
tons, and embelished with the trophies Of
science and religion,-should be more hard
hearted than America peopled with the wolf,
the panther, the buffalo, aud the painted In
dian God forbid that my native country.
whose boast ii is to be free and happy her
self, should ever cease to afford to the sons
and daughters Of sorrow, fleeing from the
wrongs and miseries of European despotism,
hearty welcome and happy home!
"But are we, therefore, 10 permit these for
elgn refugees to overturn our liberties, and
render The government under which we live
so happily. as little worth as any Of the worm
ont and totering dynasties of Europe Have
:hey any Of that attachment to our institu-
tons, which would make them at once safe
repositories of political power! Are they
qualified either by their education, habits, or
sympathles, 10 exercise the most precious
OF freemen's franchises, and march 10 the
ballot box almost within the first "a hours
alter their arrival upon our shores2
yin my opinion, our American Lawmakers
might probably go to school TO Moses in this,
as well as on several other questions Of pub
tic policy and if they should not carry the
principle Of his naturalization laws TO the
lull extent that he did, il would at least be in
structive TO them to contemplate the procedure
oil true patriot and an able sta,esmau,--and
one, too, under the guidance of a divine wis
dom.
"Admisson TO citizenship was denomnated
oy Moses, .sen!ering into the Congregation
OF jehovah He ordained that this should
never take place in the first or second genera
tIon. Some nations, as the Ammonites and
Moabites, for particular reasons, were not to
be admitted TO the tenth generation; that is,
never. But the Edomites, Egyptians, and
PROBABLY foreigners Of other nations. could
become lsraeltish citizens in the third gener-
a'ion' That is to say, the grand children Of
NOSE who had immigraed into Judea from
foreign chimes, could be admitted to the pri-
vileges OF natives Of the SOIL Why this ieal-
ousy OF foreign influence The reason is
PAM MOSES was an intelligent and devoted