Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-11-16
PROTECTION no ADOP1lED CI1GzENs.

PROTECTION TO ADORTED ClTEzENs.
The Sacramento Ufioa; IL d AftieIe upon
the failure of Secretary Seward to demand the
surrender from England Of Gen. Warren, con-
yicted of felony and treason, as an alleged Fee
man, and of Gen Nagle-both of whom are
in English prisons, and are Irish adopted citi-
zens,-refers to the fact that the Washington
Government displays great apathy in the mat
ter of protection and safety to its citizens
abroad, and concludes thus:
We have no knowledge that any earnest effort has yet
been made to that effect though there e iOS sv
Of American citizens who have suffered IA nrasS
every German and been
ment in their armies after they naa s"otA "
held to allegiance in the United States
Never since the Radicals have been In 7, power
has there been any attention given by the Cen
eral Government to the cases In point 1t is
only in cases where negroes have been the al
legged Or actual sufferers that the Washington
Government has interposed or made its power
and authority felt. Great Britain may insult
or irnprison or put to death Irish adopted citi-
zens; Prussia may seize and force into her
army German adopted citizens who return
merely on business or to visit their old home
and the Government at Washington moves not
hand, takes not step to save or relieve the
one or the other. On the contrary, itvirtuaAy
approves, by its silence, the wrongs and mortal
outrages perpetrated upon its adopted citizens
I BY those Powers. But let it be merely ru-
mOred that some insignificant negro has been
harshly treated in the South, and at once the
most urgent business OF the country is put
aside, in Congress, ard in the Departments;
the military is ordered to the relief OF the me-
gro and to the punishment of the alleged white
perpetrators of the wrong to him; a Con-
gressiOnal Committee is Immediately raised to
investigate the matter and the country is put
to an expense Of tens or hundreds OF thousands
=. of dollars-all to glOrify the ebony idol OF the
Government. But not one cent can be spent,
not one dollar spared, no Committee raised,
!. no State document issued, in behalf OF the re-
ally outraged or life-endangered Irish or Ger
man adopted citizens. 4 aa ehs8
81 Ttwas not so under the good Democratic
authority of days past, as the Martin Kotza
4 case pIONtu--Iuu VAdo AAuAiSntA0 AAtsNA
simply declared his intention to become q citi-
zen Of the United States, and was not in fact an
adopted citizen it was not SO during any
Democratic Administrations and it would not
be so now were Democratic President and a
Democratic Congress in charge of the Gov
ernment at Washington, England may now
hang Generals Warren and Naglewhat cares
johnson, or Seward, or the Radical Congress
True, both Of these brave spirits fought and
periIed their lives in the war of the Radicals
in this country, under the belief that it was a
war for the Constitution and Union, instead of
war, as it actually was to destroy both--but
what Of that2 They are white, not black of
Irish birth, not of African descent-and there
fore, their liberty or their lives is not subject
for the irterpOsition of the Radical Govern
ment at Washington. But, thank God, things
are changing. The Democratic victories of
this year are glad harbingers of the complete,
overwhelming and final defeat of the Radicals,
and Of the grand, universal and most glorious
victory Of the Democracy, in the Presidential
election of next year And when installed,
that restored Democratic Government will see
9 TO 1t that the Irish, and German, and all other
citizens, native or adopted, at home or abroad,
however humble in person or poor in purse
shall, equally with the proudest in rank, or
richest in the land, be assured the full and
rightful protection and immunity which apper-
tains to American citizenship.
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