Litchfield enquirer., 1866-12-13
alias i w WINTER GOODS

tea po1 ~N MVnAAS. ELAN ELS, ightenso ana fmKERCHIEFs.., .. .. hoped, induce in their case an exercise of clemency, and judicious amnesty to all who were engaged in the movement. Coun- sel has been employed by the government trial for capital offences in Canada; and a discontinuance of the prosecutions which were instituted in the courts of the United States against those who took part in the expedition has been directed -. =.
 have regarded the expdition as not on- ly political in it's nature, but as also in g great measure foreign from the United States in it's causes, character and objects. The attempt was understood to be made in sympathy with an insurgent party in Ire land, and, by stSikng at British province on this continent, was designed to aid in obtaining redress for political grievances which, it was assumed, the people of Ire land had suffered at the hands of the Brit ish government during period of several centuries. The persons engaged in it were chiefly natives of that country, some of whom had, while others had not, become citizens of the United States under our gen. eral laws of naturalization. Complaints of misgovernment in Ireland continually en- gage the attention of the British nation, and so great an agitation is now prevailing in Ireland that the British government have deemed it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in that country. These cir cumstances must necessarily modify the opinion which we might otherwise have en- tertained in regard to an expedition express sly prohibited by our neutrality laws. So long as those laws remain upon our statute books, they should be faithfully executed, okn
 pressively, Congress alone can apply the remedy by their modification orrepeal.
 Political and commercial interests of the United States are not unlikely to be affect ed in some degree by events which are transpiring in the eastern regions .of Flu rope, and the time seems to have come when our government ought to have a prop CT diplomatic representation in Greece.
 This government has claimed for all per sons not convicted, or accused, or suspect ed of crime, an absolute political right of self-expatriaion,t and choice of new na- tional allegiance. Most of the European States have dissented from this principle, and have claimed right to bold such of their subjects as have immigrated to and been naturalized in the United States, and afterwards returned on transient visits to their native countries, to the performance of military service in the like manner as resident subjects. Complaints arising from the claim in this respect made by foreign States, have heretofore been matters of controversy between the United States and some of the European powers, and the irri- tation consequent upon the failure to settle this question increased during the war in which Prussia, Italy and Austria were re- gently engaged. While Great Britain has never acknowledged the right of expatria- tion, she has not practically insisted upon it, France has been equally forbearing; and Prussia has proposed g compromise, which, although evincing increasing iber- aity, has not been accepted by the United States. Peace is now prevailing every where in Europe, and the present seems to be favorable time for an assertion by Congress of the principle, 30 long main tained by the Executive department, that naturalization by one State fully exempts the native born subject of any other; State from the performance of military service under any foreign government SO long as he does not voluntarily renounce it's rights snd benefits. eL5s HG Ii ,i'sja@.@ -1a t7ss' ]. f,- ,--sre-gr,H .eyss .vntofCG- ss