The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-15

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bales Cotton to Liverpool at Sd to 1884, ard 10 90 but
slaves to London at PIT.
The Naturalization Objectionable portnnt De-
spatch of General Cxss.
In another column we publish rbe resolutions
adopted at Tamnany Hall in reference to the
action Of General Cass on the naturalization
| question, and also letter Of Mr.. ZollicoGer.
member Of Congress, on the same subject. The
best comment on these dishonest productions is
despatch of the Secretary of State in another
column, from which the reader will see what
doctrine General Cass and the President really
do hold on the naturalization question-that
they hold that If an emigrant owes no military
service at the time Of his repatriation, and that
if after becoming an American citizen be should
return to his native land, he cannot be compelled
to serve, and bis native country ceases to have
any claim whatever upon his services. Instruc.
lions have been sent out to our Minister at Ber-
lin to demand the release of naturalized citi-
zen compelled to perform military service in
Hanover under these circumstances.
The reader will at once perceive the difference
between this case and that before supposed by
General Cass, which has led to so much bun
combe, and claptrap, and humbug, and hypo-
crisy. His position, as expressed by his secre-
tary Mr.. Appleton, in letter dated March Is,
as follows
passport is q mere certificate Of citizenship, which
protection its bearer 1t does not exempt him from
Any obligation or penalty which be may have incurred
The Of mis- native country prior TO his nssura
In another letter on the subject General Cass
said -
The position Of the United States is that naturaized
citizens, returning to the country OF their BIRTH
liable to any duties penalties except such
stiDg at the period Of their emigration
II, at the time Of their emigration they were in the
army, actually called into it, such emigration and
naturalization do not exempt them from the legal penalty
which they incurred by their deserton if they aer wards
place themselves voluntarily within the local jursdic
lion, &c.
period of their emigration, the Of nations in the
opinion Of this government gives right any country
to interfere with nasurazed american citizens the
attempt TO do would be considered act unjust in
itself and unffiendy towards the United States.
This is just the same doctrine as is an.
nounced in General Cass's despatch; and it
and Messrs. Bolts, Wise and Zollicoffsr are
building castles in the air for the sake of
showing their expertness in demolishing them.
General Cas- holds as strongly as they do that
the Daturalized citizen is entitled to the same
protection as the native, and that if he owed no
military service on leaving his native land, he
cannot be compelled to perform any on visiting
it after becoming an American citizen. But the
opponents Of General Cass assume that ne main
tains the very contrary Of this, and their argu-
ments are all based on this supposition. General
Cass goes even further, and says that if an emf
grant Gid owe military service in his native land,
he cannot be afterwards compelled to perform it,
unless he voluntarily returns thither. Our gov
ernment would not deliver him up, and if he is
captured in war, he must be treated as any other
| prisoner, and altogether as if he were native
American citizen; he cannot be seized on neutral
ground, and In no way can be be deprived of the
protection Of the United States government. ur.
lees by his own act in voluntarily going where
! he knows be had incurred an obligation and
penalty. But if he owed no military service, if
he was not under any legal obligation to render
it at the time of his repatriation, then he cannot
be afterwards rendered liable in virtue of any
doctrine Of perpetual allegiance; for, from the
time Of his renouncing allegiance to bis native
State, and swearing allegiance to the American
government, the latter is bound to protect him
against all future claims Of any other govern
ment on his political services.
But it is not in the power Of the American 70
vernment to apply whitewash brush to a
bona tide debt, either civil or political and wine
it out just as it never existed The protection of
the United States government to its citizens is
not absolute. II native citizen goes to France.
or Austria, or Prussia, and violates the local
laws, the fact that he is an American citizen does
not protect him. If Frenchman. OF an Ans.
trian, or Prussian comes here and violates our
laws, his nationality does not protect him. If a
foreigner incurs a penalty while he is still q
citizen of his native country, his adopted coun-
try cannot save him from the consequences, ifhe
voluntarily returns. He must pay his debt. Sup
pose one of the Hieh political convicts who
escaped here some five or six years ago from
van Dlemen's Land and became an American
citnen should think proper to return either to
that island or to Ireland. and If he should be ar
rested sc fugitive from ius.iee ard daaIs With