The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-14
X Explanation.o


Gen, CAss wrote plain concise
letter to Mr.. lie Clerc, in which he sta
ted, positively, that this government
could afford no protection to our adopt
ed citizens, in France. Every one
supposed they understood it: but the
General is busy now writing columns
to explain tin other words to make
the foreign born voters believe that
white is black and black white. The
Advertiser truly says
"The letter of Gen. Cass, announ-
cling to adopted citizens that the Admin
istration does not acknowledge their
right to the protection of the govern
ment any longer than they remain on
American soil, is creating the utmost
excitement and indignation amongst
them throughout the country. They
see from it that all the professions of
love the locofoco party have lavished
upon them are false and hyprocritical,
and that American naturalization is a
farce and fraud. 1t is stated that a
public meeting of the foreign. popula-
ton of Philadelphia is about to be held
to denounce Gen. Cass and the Ad-
ministration for this base desertion of
their rights. Cass' second letter. de-
signed to explain away the first, has
increased rather than diminished their
indignation. Aletter from that city to
the New York Tribune says this last
production has fairly staggered the be-
lief of the foreign-born Democracy in
the virtue and honesty of the sham
Democracy. 1t is stated that there
are $4,000 Germans alone in Philadel-
phia, the bulk of whom are naturalized,
while all others are becoming voters as
expeditiously as they can. The Irish
are also very numerous. Both these
classes are wildly indignant at being
thus repudiated by their favorite party.
The Cincinnati Commercial relates
an instance of the practical operation
of this cowardly and unjust betrayal
of adopted citizens on the part of the
Administration. Col. Charles Earnest,
of that city, who has been thirty years
a citizen of the United States, has SER
we'd in our volunteer military service,
now holds the position of Colonel in
the Ohio volunteer militia, and is an
honorable and highly esteemed man,
recently proceeded to Washington to
have his passport mede out, taking
letters to the State Department, stating
his character and position from Hon.
VIM. S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, and other
distinguished gentlemen. He obtained
interviews with Gen. Cass, and was
coldly told that it would be prudent for
him to. stay at home, as the Govern
ment would not undertake to guaranty
his protection as a citizen of the United
States, and that he might be impressed
into the French army. He has in con-
sequence given up his design of visit
ing Europe, and returned to Cincin-
natl, very naturally impressed that he
had been mistaken in believing that he
would be entitled to respect any where
on the globe as citizen of the Ameri-
can Republic. He proposes to enter a
formal protest as citizen against the
ruling OF the Secretary of State in his
case. 1t is question that he feels in
terested in having settled, whether he
is citizen of the United States, or
citizen of France, and whether as
naturalized citizen of this country he
has any rights that Napoleon is bound
to respect.