Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-04-11
NUMBER 2l.

and it may make citizen of foreigner.
but it is true that when person becomes
citizen of the United States he is not al
so citizen of every State where he NAV
happen to be? On this point will refer
to decision pronounced by the Supreme
Court of the United States, delivered by
Chief Justice Marshall, the most eminent
Jurlst who ever sat upon an American
bench. In the case of Classics VS. Balena,
reported in Sixth Peters, the Chief Justice,
IN delivering the opinion of the court, says;
"Ihe defendant in error is alleged in the
proceedings to be citizen of the United
States, naturalized in louisiana, residing
there. This is equivalent to an aver
ment that he is a citizen of that State.
A citizen of the United States. residing
in any State of the Union, is citzean Of
that State. The President next tells us
that the right of Federal citizenship thus
to be conferred on the several excepted
races before mentioned is now for for the
first time proposed to be given by law.
This is not misapprehension of the law,
but mistake in fact, as will appear by
reference to which shall call the atten-
tion of the Senate, and which will show
that the Presidents facts are as bad as
his law. ,a. araff,a y'a saH
Here Mr.. Trumbull read extracts from
Wheaton's International Law, showing
that by various treaties. resolutions and
acts of Congress, Frcnchmen and Span
iards, Mexicans and Indians have iva.
i rious time been made citizens of the I'm
tied States, and among them some Of the
persons mentioned in the bill. |
And yet the President tells us that the
right of Federal citizenship is now for the
first time proposed to be given by law.
"lf"-says the President, las is claimed
!, by many, all persons who are native born
already are by virture of the Constitution
citizens of the United States, the passage
of the pending bill cannot be necessary to
make them such. % That is true But is
the President to learn now for the first
> time that rule, to be found in the very
| horn-books of the law, that an act declar-
, ing that the law is one Of the most COM
mon of acts passed by the legislative bod
les When there is any question as, to-
what the law is, and for greater certaiuty.
1t is the most common things in the world
to pass statute declaring it, Some dis.
pute this, and therefore, certainly, it, is
f proper to pass this law and the fact of
5 Its being declaratory law is not made
reason for disappearing it by a President
e But If such is not the law, says the Pres.
}. ld.ent, the grave question presents itself
n whether, when eleven of the thirty-six
States are unrepresented in Congress at
G the present time, it is sound policy to
t make our entire colored population and
: and all other excepted classes, citizens of
J. the United States . This is a standing
: objection in all the veto messages of the
= President-not urged, it seems, against
: all bills, Gor the President tells us in this
e message that he has sigped some forty
r bills.) 1t is general objection which be
: makes applicable alike to all bills; and
: If there is anything in it no bill can pass
), the Congress Of the United States till
these States are represented here. \. Sir,
!. whose fault is it that: eleven States are
t not represented? I? By what fault of theirs
t is it that twenty five loyal States, which
have stood by the Union and by the con-
+ stitution, are to be deprived Of their right
7 to legislation if the reason assigned is .
j. good one Now. it has been, good one
d all the time for the last FIVE years, if the
J. fact that some States have rebelled against
Government is to take from the Govern
y ment the right to legislate. Then the
t criminal is to take advantage Of his crime
IS --the innocent are to be punished for the
:. guilty. '.' '' % %..l., ,5 -
If Within few days the President has
issned proclamation-pot of peace, as
1t the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Stewart)
y seemed to. suppose--not a proclamation
'e declaring that The rebellion is oyer--but
y that in certain States it is over. The
is president does not tell us that Texas, one
r of the States that was in rebellion, is in
T. a condition to be represented here and
l. If we are to wait for these eleven States,
II before legislation. must we not wait for
{, Texas? Three States which have under.
IS taken to reorganize have not yet been rec.
O. regniaed as haying republican form Of
D. government emitting them to representa-.
O. tion The Representatives chosen by most
,e of them are persons fresh from the rebel
os armies Are we to abstain form all neces.
v tsary legislation until these States shall be
le admitted to representation which insist on
4 thrusting into Congress men whose hands
ID are dripping with the blood hof loyal
OF mcu?ia sio7 % lfglg fuati'H gIinn@.
er b ls s'the Vice President of the Rebel Con-
b. federacy---is his colleague one of the Sen
SC ators in the Rebel Congress)-2to come
is here to legisatc for the loyal people Of
Il, this couutry23 Sir, the men who organ
s ized government that carried on afour
tc years war AGAINST us, as the result Of
ne which this nation had to expend more
IL tho ~, tbraa tlnnsat,d million idfsllaro nd