The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-11-12

owe them protection IA foreign countries return
for their allegiance! This question must be Set
tied at once. 1t as been suspended too long, and
now is the time, when our passports are disre-
earded. and insult and Injury are inflicted on our
citizens, to settle it and dispose Of it forever If
il be nos settled now, we may have cause to re-
greet It. A war between this country and England
may take place at srme future time and, in the
event OF hostil,ies breaking out between the two
nations, could it be expected In view OF these oc-
currences, that citizens Of British birth would
take the field to support our flag 4! of course II
could not; for the rules Of war would not be appli-
cable to them as long this principle, "once sub
ject, always subject" Is maintained by Eagland-
not in theory alone, but in fact and practice
If taken prisoners they would be hanged as traitors
beng, according to the pretensions of England,
British subjects, notwith standing their oath Of al
legiance to the United States.
We respectfully call upon the government TO
take active measures to have all American Citi-
zens now In confinement In Ireland, and against
whom no crime can be maintained, as IN the case
with two now in Newgate-Mr. Ryan and Mr..
Bergen-released, and to demand reparation for
their injuries, and announcement, final and con-
elusive on the part Of England, of her right to any
control, on the ground of Queen and subject, over
naturalized citizens of the United States.
NEWSPAPER COURTESY We have recently no.
ticed in the columns Of our contemporaries, tables
OF figures relating to political, financial and COM
mercial affairs, copied from the Herald, without
the slightest addition, alteration or improvement,
without the most indirect aIusion where they OIL
ginated. We have for so many years experienced
much OF this, that We have not thought it worth
abiding to; but other journals are so sensitive
upon this point that 1t might be well enough for
us 10 allude to several recent instances where
tables which have cost us much money and labor,
have been appropriated and passed of by other
papers as their own. The Tribune and Truth
Teller, OF this city, have, within the past day or
two, copied valuable tables from our columns,
showing the debts, taxes, revenue and expendi-
lures, population, &C., of each country in Europe
some of which were obtained by the proprietor
of tins paper while abroad, last year, with much
difficulty and no credit given. Very recently, a
magazine in Philadelphia copied from, and ere.
dted to, the Ledger Of that city, series of tables
relative TO the commerce of the country, obtained
by one of our correspondents at the Treasury De-
par,ment In Washington, and originally published
In the Herald. These are only the most recent
cases. Papers from every part of the country fill
their columns in the same way; and if any credit
is given, some other paper in this city gets It,
Now 1t is our impression that the proprietors of
the papers named above know nothing about the
system prscticed by some of their reporters in
making up their reports. We do not believe that
they have any idea that valuable tables, used to
illustrate any important subject have been taken,
body and soul, from the columns of their cotempo-
raries; and furthermore, it Is our belief that IN all
cases, proper credit will be gwen when they be-
come better acquaint ed with the method resorted
to by reporters who have not brains enough to
make up table or an original article, and not
principle enough to say to whom they are indebted
for aid and ideas.