St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-08-04
The CaSS Dilemma.


certain material mental reservations,
abandoned its former positions regard
ing the rights Of adopted citizens, it
might be we'll to recall the letters and
advice previously written and given,
forbidding many in that category to
go abroad, unless they were prepared
to incur the hazard Of being impressed
into military service. If the doctrine
asserted in Mr.. LIE Clcrc's case be
really surrendered, then he ought to
be notified to that effect, instead OF
being compelled to remain at home,
for fear of facing Louis Napoleon's
CONSUMPTION. In any event, it is only
fair that the country should understand
what ground the Government means
to maintain. Some attempts have
been made to reconcile the conflicting
principles of the three manifestoes is
sued within six weeks from the De-
partment Of State, but with no effect
upon the intelligent opinion of the
country. Everybody knows that the
first, to LeClerc, represents the true
sentiments of the Administration, and
that the others were contrived for a
political purpose only.
But in order that the public may see
at a single glance the varying phases
of policy here on this question, let the
three declarations be contrasted side
by side as follows:
LETTER TO LIE CLERc, DATED JUNE, IL, $50.
81 have to state that it is under
stood that the French Government
claims military service from all ma
tives of France who may be found
within it's jurisdiction. Your natural,
ization in this country will not exempt
you from that claim, should you volun.
tarily repair thither, L. CASS."
LETTER TO HoFER, DATED JUNE IA, SO.
The position of the United States,
as communicated to our Minister at
Berlin for the information of the Prus,
sian Government, is, that native-born
Prussians naturalized in the United
States and returning to the country oi
their birth, are not liable to any du
ties or penalties, except such as were
existing at the period Of their emigra
ton. L, CASS."
LETTER TO THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT Der
LIN, DATED JULY 8, 1859.
"The moment foreigner becomes
naturalized, his allegiance to his ma
tive country is severed forever. lie
experiences new political birth. A
broad and impossible line separates
him from his native country. He is
no more responsible for anything he
may say or do, or omit to say or do
after assuming his new character, than
if he had been born in the United
States. l.. CASS."
No sophistry or ingenuity can har.
monise these declarations, which now
face each other with complacent eff
frDntery. And even this feeble at
tempt to change front would neve
have been made but for the disastrou.
effects produced upon the party by
the original letter to LIE UIerc. NJ
better evidence is wanting of Mr.. Blu
chanan's desire to be candidate fol
second term than these small efforts
to court favor at the expense of what
ever principle the Administration may
have asserted. The last dispatch was
written by his own hand, after others
had tried to patch up an explanation
and he hurried it into print against all
the nsages of the Government, with
out being aware at the moment tina,
he had only botched the case worse
than before. j. b. ought to be the
candidate by all means. He has sac
rificed everything to the South, but
he VIII be answered with the same in
gratitude at Charleston that was ad-
ministered to much higher and bet.
ter man-Franklin Piercc-at Cincin-
natl.