White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-07-07
Cas- on Foreigners.

well alarm foreigners for their rights
not concerning any certain period during
which they should not be allowed the
privileges ofcitizens of the United States,
but involving their rights even after they
have resided in America far beyond the
longest period that the most proscriptive
demand they shall remain before being
admitted to citizenship-after they have
assumed those rights, and have been hon
ored with places of public trust by the
people of the United States.
Since the breaking ont of the war in
Europe, the question has arisen, as to
whether, in case a naturalized citizen Of
the United States should visit Europe,
his native country could claim his servi-
ces in the army. The matter was refer
red to Secretary Cass, and he. rejecting
the opinions of the Administration, has
decided that, if such citizens owed SER
vice in Europe, prior to coming here,
those countries are entitled to the full
term of their service, in case they visit
their native land; no matter if they have
become citizens Of the United States, &C.
cerding to our laws. Thus In France
and the German States, there is system
of CONSUMPTION, under which all subjects
must serve a given number of years in the
army. Therefore, if person left before
so serving, Tor, as many do, fled from
service, } it may have been even quarter
of a century ago, and now has occasion
to visit Europe, he is liable to be COM
PEELED to serve ont his full term in the
army, and the United States will afford
him no protection. notwithstanding he
has enjoyed the rights of citizenship for
twenty years.
OF what utility are our naturalization
laws, if they afford no protection to those
for whose benefit they were established :?
What becomes of the boast that America
is an asylum for the oppressed of the
whole world? Those who came to that
asylum, and are so unfortunate as to be
caught in Europe at this time, are told,
when they appeal to our Government for
protection: You never served out your
time in the army-you must now remain
there Eve or seven years, at the bidding
Of tyrants, and march forth to Cypress
your countrymen, and prevent them from
throwing off the chains Of bondage p
And If oUr Government allows this, will
it not also allow the European nations
to hang or shoot such naturalizsd citizens
as rebelled against them, or deserted their
armies? If so, woe to the German Pat
riots of 1848, and previous to that time,
who fed to this home Of the free, after
their unsuccessful effort to free their Fa-
therland If any of them are found in
Europe, they may be shot down as trail
tors or deserters, and our Government
will call it right. And having Yielded
TO this, may we not look next for our
Government to consent to deliver up all
fugitives from foreign oppression, who
are now enjoying the privileges of Ame-
rican citizens, wherever they may be
found, that they may be carried back,
and dealt with as traitors and deserters
And since the example has been set, may
we not expect England, when she again
engages in war, to demand the services
of citizens of the United States, who are
natives of the British Empire?
Who is it that is thus surrendering the
rights Of our adopted citizens? 1t it the
Know-Nothing party, which, we have so
often heard it said, is founded upon pro-
scription OF foreigners No; it is the
great Democratic Administration
Administration Of that party which, we
have been SO repeatedly told, in eloquent
terms, is composed Of the true friends oil
the foreigner. Were the rights of the
naturalized citizen so ANONYMOUSLY sur
rendered by President Fillmore. that
much abused Know-Nothing? Forum
ate would it be for the adopted citizen.
were Fillmore now in the Presidential
chair. Well would it be, were Daniel
Webster, instead of Gen. Cass, in the
Office Of Secretary of State, to send the
Hulsemanns bowling back to their mas
tiers, and teach Austria that the United
States are determined TO protect the rights
of their citizens. Did James Madison
desert the naturalized citizen, when Eng
land claimed his services, and impressed
him into her army and navy? The his
tory of the war of 1912, is an emphatic
and impressive answer in the negative.
But James Buchanan was bitter oppo.
nent Of that war, and Of the Administra.
ton of James Madison: is it not, then,
reasonable to expect that, in similar ca.
ses, he will adopt a policy opposite to
that pursued by President Madison
Principles which were established by the
war of 1912, are now yielded and thrown
onen for disnuka nv the Administration