Polynesian., 1844-08-10
but no other man would have the same infu-
ence, nor meet with the same obedience.
Ito be Continued.)
To ruc Ep,roR OF THE PotyNEsrAN -

Ou,-I uUllC dttcHtiOH Has DCCh ohi y
the subject Of Allegiance, which so far as
concerns the meaning Of the word, the duty,
and the natural reasons which found the
claim, l have endcavored to explain from
books and from obvious deduction. We
have also seen from the sam sources, that
all mankind, whether natives or domiciled
persons, live under the obligation of obedi-
ence to some earthly Power, as under the
force Of an oath administered by the Almigh-
ty Ruler Of the Universe.
The country Of his birth claims the sub
ject or the citizen, by ties Of gratitude and
afection-by the strong bonds Of asso-
citation and early prepossession. Archdean
Paley asserts that man is a bundle Of hab-
its;" and 50 we find it in reality. Persons
and objects, manners and customs, scenes
and scenery, diet and fashions, laws usages
and customs, even climate, and peculiarities
Of thought, to which we become accustomed
in early youth, cling to us with a tenacity
that will yield to no efforts of mental disci-
pine. Go where we may, these still follow,
disparaging, in our estimation, whatever in
the customs, laws, tanners and usages, Of
other nations, appear in the least to conflict
with that sunnma ratio which forms our own
peculiar standard. We resist the least devil
alton, as an impropriety-the result Of igno-
rance !! and seek, wherever we 60, to en-
graft, what early intuition has taught US to
be the one only proper course of action.
History proclaims these dogma Of the
mind to have been productive Of Revolutions
in the internal policy Of different nations,
into which emigration has sow the seeds Of
innovation and political discord. Talent,
and Ambition, are no less migratory than
mere Industry, Enterprise, and quiet Sub
serviency; and where the talented and ambi-
tious 60, they use, for the purposes Of faction
and discomfort, the simply industrious, en-
terprizing, and quietly subservient, who
only perceive the d~issonance between laws
and usages Of their native country, and those
oftheir domiciliation. To guard against this,
if for no other purpose, all nations, and par
t~icularly the weak, find it equally safe and
expedicnt, to insist upon the doctrine Of the
non extra territorial force ofMunicipal Laws,
and the omnipotencc of local sovereignty;
which " doctrines enable each nation,
without the fear Of foreign interference, to
curb within its own territories the rebellious
emigrants from other nations.
Chancellor Kent, writing Of exclusive SOW
creignty, says, l VOL, 81: "Nations are
equal in respect to each other, and entitled
to claim equal consideration for their rights.
whatever may be their relative dimensions.
or strength, or however greatly they may
differ IN government, religion, or manners.
This perfect equality, and entire independ-
ence Of all distinct states, is a fundamental
principle Of public law. 1t is a necessary
consequence of this equality, that each ma
ton has a right to govern itself as it may
think proper, and no one nation is entitled to
dictate a form ofgovernment, or religion, or
course Of internal policy, to another. No
state is entitled to take cognizance or notice
OF the domestic administration of another
state; or Of what passes within it as between
the government and its own subjects"
Vatfel, discoursing Of the same subject,
says, b. 2, C. 4, s "a: cit is a manifest
consequence ofthe liberty and independence
OF nations, that all have a right to be govern
ed as they think proper, and that none have
the least authority to interfere in the govern
'nent Of another state. OF all the rights
tnaf can belong to q nation, sovereignty il.