Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-19
The Rights of NHLuraIized CILi

ZcRIs.
The new doctrine of the Democracy
that naturalized citizens nave no right
which foreign dcspots are bound to re
spect," is giving them a. deal Of trouble
Having taken a position which virtual,
%withdraws the protection of the Govern
ment from the naturalized citizen, they
have a~ddedsthe grossest insults to the in
jury, by the Arguments with which they
attempt to sustain their position.
We have not seen II single defense o
the ground assumed by the Administra.
ton, which did not place the foreign emf.
grant on the precise footing of a Jugitivc
criminal, or a JIgtive sloVel In a land Of
slaves, the highest crime, in the estimation
of the master class, is The ASCENDING OF
migration of the victim of oppression
And the whole cunning and power Of the
m asters is devoted to the means of recap
ture and punishment. Men maintaining
such a system must, necessarily, deny all
human rights, as such, and come to look
upon the people as the property of their
self constituted lords. And hence the
leaders of our Democracy having made
the system of human bondage the prime
article in their creed, assuming that People
can be horn slaves and owe perpetual SER
vice TO those who claim them as such,
naturally adopt the ideas of the despots of
all countries, with a desire to strengthen
and extend :heir claims to n divine right
tn pI1ln aud TrnNarn fIa Y,aA-1o ,,.,,.ot ~.
will.
Hence tie new doctrine promulgated by
the Administration This doctrine as
sumes that, because a mar happened 20 be
born in France, or any of the petty des-
polisms of The Old World, he therefore
stands in the same relation, precisely, TO
Loui Napoleon, or whatever usurper may
seize the Government, that one born on
the plantation Of an Alabama Shareholder
does 10 his master. That in either case
the master has claims upon the life and
services Of the person SO born. which can
never be annulled, but that tho individual
is liable to be reclaimed, and held to SER
vice by his assumed master, wherever and
whenever he can get him within his power
The doctrine is distinctly announced. that
Louis Napoleon, for Instance, has such an
absolute right TO The thirty millions of peo-
pie born n that country, that, although
one OF them should come to the United
and in the most solemn manner re-
nounce his allegiance to that Government
and swear allegiance TO this. yet such is the
right of Napoleon to him and his
services, hat if he can seize him on the
soil of France, or on board of her ships,
he has no remedy, but, like a recaptured
Stare, he must submit to his fate.
We think this doctrine the most mon
'trous ever preached in this country
And yet it is but the Legitimate result of
he principles held by the Shareholders
Who control the Democratic party
in time to avert it, remains to be
cen. But if they shall lend themselves,
" party blindness, 10 be the instruments
f their own degradation, the will but
id another proof to the argument of
hose who maintain that the people cannot
We without masters. We are glad to see,
owever, that the doctrine is meeting with
stern resistance, which is already alarm
1g the leaders Of the party, and many of
nem are repudiating it. Perhaps the in
ignation with which it is now met by the
republicans universally, and many Demo-
may have a tendency to check the
of the leaders, and save our nat
rallied citizens from the effects of extra
ition treaties in the nature of Fugitive
lave Laws. If it does, they may thank
le Republicans for their escape.
How Douglas Men Agree.
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