Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-28
The Southern Dynasty on Naturaliza-
ton.


Tn 1912, Mr. Madison, one of the statesmen
Of Virginia. declared war against England
because that government practically asserted
the European dogma of "once a subject al
ways subject"
Since then, and of late years, some of the
most erudite and able judges of the high
Courts of Virginia, have asserted in their Ju-
dicial opinions, that Virginia and the South
have experienced conscientious change
from the times of Washington, jefferson,
Madison and Monroe, upon the slave ques-
ton, and that instead of viewing slavery as
an evil, some day to be eradicated in favor of
freedom and free labor (the original doctrine, }
that the South is now consciel tiously in ia =
vor of slavery, and prefers its growth and
spread, to its declension and ultimate obliter
alton.
This government has been from its founda-
ton substantially under the control of the
Southern Dynasty, and of course its policy
has changed grounds with the changes Of
Southern sentiment. In 1912, the doctrine
that a naturalized citizen of the United States
owed a war duty to England, and that that
government had right to search our ships
upon the high seas, and reclaim her fugitive
subjects wherever she could find them, was a
casus bclH Now,a part of the same doctrine
is a CAss-,tS non beli.
A division of the question is an impracti-
cablity A man cannot be subject of two
governments, at once. He cannot owe di-
vided allegiance in nationality, because
breach of featy is political crime, and he
would be liable for treason to one of the
countries, if he performed his duty to the
other. lie could not take up arms Tor one,
against the other, without being shot as a
traitor if taken prisoner in the casualties oi
battle. Such a state of things is unreasona-
BILE and cannot nationally and naturally exist.
The position of CAss as non beAi must be ex-
amined by the American people, and iffound,
as it surely is, incompatible with our nation
ality, and at variance with the Laws of Nature
(the basis Of the laws of nations and govern
mental comity,) the error must be corrected
by the Cabinets or Canons of the Nations,
for this great and proud people cannot and
will not take an inferior or tributal position
among the sovereignties of the earth. 1t
would not in 1912, and it will not yet; and
if the Southern Dynasty, prefering and labor
ing for its slave interests, shall ignore this
great white-race issue, even in the next Presi-
Dental election, its power will depart from
it. and northern hands and northern nerves
will take hold of the helm of State; and nei-
ther America nor Europe will find rest till
the full nationality of this country is estab-
lished, and its naturalization laws admitted
if right, or abrogated if wrong.
But as the Right is apt to prevail, let us
see where it lies If we have made an unjust
pretension, of course we will back away from
it; but ii Europe is in error, we can correct
that error and obtain our rights, as we have
done before.
In all causes of dispute between civilized
nations, where there are no specific treaties
OR agreed rules to go by, Diplomacy weighs
the Equities of the case, and settles it by the
intentions and acts of the parties, and by the
laws of nature, bearing thereon and to ar
rive at Justice considers analogies, and if the
question is wide enough, ranges the arcana
of the universe for calculating principles and
facts. The nations of Europe fitted out dis
coveries, and by their citizens took possession
of this Continent They peopled it for more
than two centuries and governed it as long as
they could. Thus countenancing, nay, ac-
tually originating repatriation. The govern
ments invited colonization and settlement
The French settled the north and west the
English and German nations the east, and the
French and Spanish the south. After war
of seven years, and from the treaties that
consummated the Revolution. our nation as
sumed entire independence from the mother
countries. Not one Of them laid any claim
to a citizen back of that date. "Once a sub
ieet always subject" was whipt out them,
and was net revived until England wanted
men to man her marine, and make her navy
the most imposing in the world. Then the
4iOu SihiihcN Lho ilShb " ny ms I'"M upVh
our feeble shipping, and press every British
born subject into his service. We went tC
war in 1912 and conquered exemption from
that tyrannieal and unjust pretension. The
nations of Europe became parties TO our Con
stitution, by treating with us after the form
alton of our government, and were thereby
notified and bound by the conditions of thai
Constitution and its allegations of principles
and rights, and amongst them, was the declar
alton that our Congress should pass uniform
laws of naturalization" that is, they treated
with us that our Constitution should no
make any discrimination between thepeoplei
of the different governments of Europe ol
civilized nations but by whatever laws VIZ
admitted one people to citizenship we should
the others To naturalize is to nativeize-
The foreign born became adopted to the sod
and the Powers of Europe voluntarily and
knowingly made themselves parties to Tho
principle of expatriation, asserted by oul
Constitution.
They further made themselves parties &c
that principle by permitting the emigration
from that time to this of their subjects to thii
country, knowing that their subjects i"tendeC
expatriation. They have law of ne ereat
but its positive state is, suspension; and il
only operates when specially called into ac-
ton by the government Iadmit that sub
iect leaving, while the nc Great was in force