New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-04
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL q, 1854.
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Arrogance, NE believe, il the asserting, with
insoient disregard for others, ones claims OF
one's opinions, right or wrong. What absurdity
z IS, We need hardly xplain
We have neighbor of whose good judgment
and rectitude we entertain q high opinion
May, W. have d variety ofsuch. But, when we
Of the Press talk Of g neighbors or of " cotem-
poraries, = we always mean each other, as II mo-
body lived near us nor nobody in our times, ex-
eept editors. La the present case it is of our
a neichlDr The Bulletin that we are speaking,
y Thar Paper haa, yesterday. the following ultra
Afnsf loan article
BRfrIsH DoorRINE or CITIZENSHIP. In the
Vice Chandeliers Court, England, Sir John
Stewart recently decided that an infant, bornsip
New York. whose mother was an American, and
her father q naturalized citizen Of the United
! States. born ia England, is q subject Of the
Crown of England! Naturalization, although
Z il conferred the right of an American citizen
upon the father, did not absol1e him from his
duties, or deprive him n of his rights British
subject. This ii carrying the arrogant and
absurd English doctrine Of citizenship and ale
glance to d ridiculous extreme. Such doctrine
would make ritisaaaubj ectsof every native born
Anerican III Bsitish extraction; for, if it is APP
plicable TO one generation born here, it is appli
cable 10 al SUGGESTING generations. Secretary
Marcy recently gave his opinion, that every
person born in the United States must be con-
aislercd d citizen of the United States, notwith
) standing one or both of the parents may have
been aleens
Now, We must confess ourselves little sur.
prised at seeing this sort Of headlong talk in a
journal as sober and intelligent as the Bulletin.
B Where is the arrogance Of British judges rem
dering a decision in conformity with Whist is
Z md Away was the doctrine of the English and,
indeed Of almost all other law
There was o time when no opposite notion
Scxisted, and when, of course, there can have
been no arrogance In q claim which nobody
doubted How, then, did it subsequently be.
\ come arrogant It evidently became 80 from
I the moment when DE set up the opposite doc
trine. So that, in fact, to hold any opinion CON
trary 70 what we in this country hold, is to BIZ
arrogant. We, meantime are, Of course,
modest altogether. The truth is that this
a,ilacity Of tho rest Of the world in having their
own laws and their oWn notions Of what is right
Is nothing but an intolerable piece Of insolent
s presumption, which we shall shortly have to put
i dewn altogether
sss 50 much for the arrogance: now let Us glance
I into the ahsurdity.
"a the doctrine IF perpetual allegiance ab-.
surd Hardly. II has been the doctrine Of
J, patriotism, in all times and countries Men
have eyer been honored in proportion to the
obstinate fidelity Of that feeling, which they
showed Among the noblcst nations, the affec-
Z tion for ones country has always been looked
on % the very highest and most sacred Of all.
To desert her for o happier one has never been
thought meritorious. To raise ones hand
\ against her, under whatever excuse. has eyer
been regarded as execrahle But il you can
at your pleasure, transfer this holy duty else
where, you can invade, rayage and destroy the
landiof your birth, just when it suits you for
you have only to go to her worst enemy and
make yourself citizen there, How, then, can
v al this be pronounced absurd Or do things
become absurd, I just as they grow /" arro-
CANT " from the moment that they don't suit US /
The decisions Of our own great tribunal. the
Supreme Court of the United States, have not
positively re-atirmed, but all tend to revive the
n old doctrine Of Allegiance, as Indispensable as
a general and permanent necessity Of all socie-
I ties, They may wander from it, ct their first
establishment as colonies, when they are pressed
BY the severe need Of men, Of a population but
as soon as they have become strong enough to
protect themselves, they must cease accepting
as citizens, everything that comes; and instead
rof stealing them from abroad, grow them at
home