The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-07-01
THE RIGHTS OF NATL RALLIED
CITIZENS,

GlIlLENSs
A few weeks ago, GEx CAss, the Secretary
Of State, wrote a briet letter 10 Mr. LIZ CLERc,
Of Tennessee, in which was announced the
simple fact that native cf France naturaIzed
in the United States, is not, by virtue OF such
exempt iron military service un-
der the sovereign he has renounced, IT h.
voluntarily returns within the dominons OF
that sovereign. This letter was written with
the patriotic purpose o. putting on their guard
such French naturaIized citizens of the United
States as may have intended visiting France
during the progress of the present war IL
will be observed that GEx. CAss did not assert
any principle, but merely stated an existing
fact, for it is a fact that France claims military
service from all VINO once were her subjects,
il by their own free will they return within
her borders: and what is more, there is no IN
ternaiionaI law, treaty, or convention OF any
sort, which denies France the right 10 claim
such service of such quondam subjects. Can
General Cass make law that will bind France
Will his mere djcfum compel Louis Napoleon
10 resign prerogatge which not a single gov
smment on the face of the earth, has denied
/ him! Nonsense IF this claim Of France is
/ 10 be disputed, it can only be done by setting
all precedent at drfaoce and at the point Of
/ the bayonet. But, notwithstanding these facts,
Abolition newspapers denounce, IN the most
/ rabid style, the venerable Secretary OF State,
+ for making MS well-meant announcement
They rapt aud storm at what they are pleased
TO call the s:new doctrine Of Mr. Cass." Their
object is paIpabIe. They feel the load Of the
sMassachuselts Amendment,' that odiou.
measure which disiranchises white naturaiizec
I citizens, whilst the Constitution Of which i
forms part, permits The backest negro to vote
Consequently they make great outcry abou
the letter OF General Cass, for the purpose o
diverlIng the attention Of foregn-born citizen!
r from their own iniquiLous conduct in Massa
i chusetts. These shameless political sCoundrel
: the midnight inventors of Know NothIn;
proscfiption-the bloody-handed ParticiPatoF
in the wholesale murler Of ioreign-born citl
gems in Baltimore, Louisville and New Oreau
the RELENTLESS prosecutors OF every ciilzel
not TO the manor born-now raise their guilt.
: palms in holy horror at the announcement c
= Secretary Cass, and lain would make their for
mer victims believe that they, and not tn
Democratic party, are their true fiiends. BIZ
this desperate and unpunciPled game, is TO
,I.,la ,tyirf bad f,- Il -
. leading Opposition journals. The Nationa
IAteiilgencer, paper which during the day
ofthe Whigs, was the foremost organ of that Ia
mentrd party, and which at present, is cor
sdrFed the fairest and most respectable Ops
de4jj ! journal published, takes sides with Ger
3 > in the tnest emphatic nlaaner, saa3 gni
g s en- % lar as to intimate that those who oppo.
itbe Secretary, in regard to the matter in que
ZION, are claiming The same rights in Ftanc
which Great Britain once claimed on the Hig
T Seas, and for claiming which the United Stat,
declared war against her in 1912. We sui
! Join the Infeiiigeacer's article. Read 1t, an
+ see how plain tale ltrom their own sid
G mark ye,) shall put these bowling hypocrit,
down.
= From the National IntelIigencer (Opposition)
: THE LIMITATIONS OF MuNIcIPAL Law IN TIL
MATTER OF NArUrALrzATlox.-Ou reade
are aware that, in answer to an appicato
: made at the Department OF State by
n naturaiized citizen, who, being a native
France, desired to know whether his ne
= citizenship would exempt him from the ob!y;
~ 1 4. -,
n voluntary return to his native country, III
Y Secretary Cass stated tina! s'the French Covers
ment claims service from all natives of Franc
who may be found within its jnrisiicton' - az
: added hat "naturaiization il this counlr
/, would not exempt from that claim in the ca,
h OF those who ''voluntarlly repair thiihPr."
4 Though this decision OF the veteran Seer
tary is based on welreCognized principles
= public law, and is, moreover, sustained
L established precedents in our civil and dip
= matte history, it seems 10 have provoked reel
! nations in certain quarters, and is criticised
implying some derogation from the imagint
u rghtS and ImmunIties secured to naturaliz,
4 citiz9ps of the United States, who, it is col
! tended, by virtue Of Their naturalization, a
placed, in relation to their native country,
in all other respects, precisely on the san
D footing as 4 natura-born citizen of the Unite
IS States. We believe this opinion to be erron
: Gus and the attempt to confound the doctrii
Il stated by Mr.. Cass with that resisted by Il
I Uuied States in the war of 1879 again
: Great Britain, proceeds on a historical mi
conception OF the real position assumed by o.
Government in denying, as IT did at that tim
" and still does, the principle of 'perpetual ali
/ glance" 1t was maintained by the Cover
!, ment OF the United States that this doctrine
perpetual allegiance depends entirely upon Il
! municipal law by which il is defined and q