Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-13

of every nation towards its neighbOrs with
whom it is at peace. If the authorities at
Washington had acted, as they ought to have
done, weeks and months ago, in enforcing this
law, they would have .aved many poor, de-
luded Irshman from pulling ropes end IN
Canada and would have really conferred
great benefit upon the Irish population OF
this country, who have been induced by de-
signing and bad leaders, or by leaders who
knew nothing of the business they undertook,
20 give many thousands of dollars in money,
and many OF their lives, in the most fool
hardy and mad enterprise that men OF any
brains ever engaged in.
What Awaits the Captured Fee
mans An Canada.
Tie law of Upper Canada, applicable 10 the
case of the captured Fenians, is this
In case any person, bein,, q citizen or
subject of any foreign state or country at
peace with her majssty, be continues IN
arms ag4inss her majesty within Upper Can
ada, commits any act OF hostility therein,
or e-ters Upper Canada with desigu or intent
10 levy war against her majesty, or 20 commit
any felony therein, for which any rson
wou by the laws of Upper Canada be liable
to sutfsr death, then the governor may order
the ass mbIleg of militia general court mar
tai for the TIL i of such person, agreeably to
the militia law, and upon being found guilty
by such court marital of ofsn ling against
this {. such person shall be sentenced by
such court martial to suffer death OF such
other punishment shall be awarded by the
court"
10 addition to this provision of the law, the
Canadian Parliament Immediately on Assem-
bly, last Friday at Ottawa, suspended the wri,
OF ha5eas corpus for on. year. The Attorney
General of Canada in presenting the bill 3
suspend the writ, advocated amid great ap-
plause quick, summary punishment OF the
raiders There is no doubt that English JUS
tice melted out TO the Fenisns vail be quite
different from the mercitul treatment which
English aud Canadian writer's have urged our
Governm ent to adopt toward raitors,-but it
is their OK which is gored this time, and that
alters the case Hesd-Centre Stephens in
speech at W ashington recently, intimatsd thai
he should sometime inquire whether the
American Eenians who invaded pgllsh ter
ritorY we're not 70 have the shield of Amer
can citizenship still used for their protecuon,
saying, &" shall ask, on some future occasion,
what is meant By this American citizenship;
what good it does to 40 Irishman, especially
when he sets foot on English territory, II will
be necessary that some men of charity should
explain to the irish people what they gain by
Amer IAN citizenship Stephens will, how
ever, learn, whenever be asks that question,
that American citizenship is no Protection to
one who violates our laws by N liking war on
a people with whom We are at peace. SOUTH
ern hlllbusters found this out years ago, and
tenlan flllbusters will find 1t out now. What
We Would not do for American born citizens,
we shall not be likely to do for naturalized
citizens. Irish people gain by American cit
: izenshp the same rights that those born on
| the soil gain, no more and no less. II they
exoect to gain more, or think they enjoy less
they are much mistaken, and the sooner Ste
phens and other Fenians 6nd out this mistake
the better it will be for them. Indeed it
would have been much better for them, and
Infinitely better for their enthusiastic but un-
fortunate followers, if they could have learned
before this unlawful raid and miserable fasco
in Canada, that their enterprise put them a.
completely beyond the protection of our Gov
ernment, as thou Oh their expedition had been
planned in and started from Ireland.
|
The PROPOSED CoNsrIrUrIonAL AhBNDhkHT.
The Senate last Friday took final action on
the proposed constitu tional amendment, pas
sing 1t by the following vote
Yeas-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, CLARK,
Conness, Cragin, Cres~eli, Edmunds, Fessen-
den, Foster, Grimes, Harris, Hende rson
| Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane OF Iodisna,
Lane of Kansae, Morgan, Morrill,, Nye, Pc
land, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague,
i Stewart, Sumner, TrumbulI, W ade, Wiley
Williams, W ilson and Ystee-33.
Ndys-Messrs. Cowsn, Davis, Doolittle,
Guthrie, Hendricks, johnson, McDougail,
Norton, Riddle, Salisbury and Van Wlnkle
III.
.46sent-Messrs .Buckalew, Brown, Dixon,
Nesmlth and Wright-5.
The amendment as a last agreed upon ID
as fellows
Resolved, By the Senate and House Of Rep
resent ativ- OF The United States Of America,
In Congress assembled, tw o-thirds OF both
houses concurrlng, that the following article
be proposed 10 the Legislatures OF the several
States az an amendment to the ConsIitu ton
of she United States. which, when ratified
by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall b.
valid as part of the Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE FIFTY.
SECTION l. ALI persons born or natural
lied III the United States, and subject to tho
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
) ;ates, and the States wherein they reside
No State shall make or enforce any law whlch
shall abridge the privileges or immunities Of
oiti.ens OF the United States nor shall any
State deprive any person of life. liberty OF
property, without due process of law, nor
ieny to any person within Its Jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
SECTION 2. Representatives shall be ap-
portloned among the several States according
70 their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons, excluding Indians
not taxed. But whenever the right 20 vote ~
any election for the choice of electors for
President and Vice President, representatives
in Congress, executive and judicial officers or
members of the legislatures thereof, u denied
TO any of the male inhabitants Of such State,
being twenty-ooe years Of ego and cisisens OF
tine United States, OK in any way abridged,
excsps for participation in rebellion or o,her