The New York herald., 1868-02-23

position OF the republican party he shows it to
be such that men who have hitherto felt them
selves In sympathy with that party find they
can no longer adhere to it. He has caught
the party in false position, and as it is driven
from point to point by his forcing it, finds that
at every advance it loses by detection of the
vast masses that will not see the interests of
the country sacrificed to make the fortune of
political coterie or to save mischievous and
tanatical idea. In this fight he bids lair to
waste the radicals away to an uncertain and
insignificant faction and thus destroy that COM
pact majority that has ruled the country with
such arrogance and tyranny. In this effort he
will have the sympathy of the whole people.
Important News from Germnny-The Rights
of American Citizens Acknowledged by
the Bund.
The long vexed and perplexing international
question existing between the people of the
United States and the Kings, Kaiser, Grand
Dukes, Electors and other potentates of Ger
many on the subject Of the citizen rights and
home allegiance and duties entailed by birth
on German emigrants adopted by naturaliza-
ton under the American flag is at an end. By
special telegram dated in Berlin yesterday,
and forwarded through the Atlantic cable
we have the very important intelligence that
the North German Bund fully acknowledges the
rights OF Germans naturalized in the United
States after residence of FIVE years in the
territory of the republic, and that the German
federal authorities will receive such persons in
future in the same manner as they now receive
native born Americans. The Hon. George
Bancroft has been engaged for some time
past-as already repored in the special written
correspondence of the HERALD from Berlin-in
his capacity of United States Minister at the
Prussian Court, in negotiating this interesting
subject with King William and his ministers.
Mr. Bancroft's efforts have been crowned with
success, and on Saturday last he signed treaty
with the representative Of the North German
Confederation to the above effect.
BY this act the advance of modern progress
takes a most important stride. The musy
theories and interlaced and entangling law
points, precedents, ordinances and quirks with
which jurists, royalists and red tape men have
so long obscurod and couded the mind of the
Old World on the subject of voluntary expa-
triation and its consequences, and under which
they have sought to hold the poor man to some
poverty-stricken soil, for the reason that no was
born there in poverty and under a system
OF government the action Of which hopelessly
prevented his parents from growing rich, are
N. 1r
American Minister. North Germany in her
first moments Of liberation and consolidation
gracefully acknowledges that mind can
not be fettered, and that men will and
must pursue happiness where and in
| what manner seems best to themselves. The
Bund guarantees by solemn treaty that it will
| not seize and demand the hand of soldier for
service and war where he cannot give his heart,
and acquiesces in the long contested point
that after five years residence in the United
States and the attainment of legal American
naturalization paper the born German becomes
free American, and will be respected and
treated accordingly.
This treaty will produce very beneficial re-
sults-beneficial TO Germany and useful to the
United States. German emigration will, in the
first place. flow on more healthy basis to this
country, while the communication by letter
and personal presence between the exiles and
the land Of their birth will be much more uncon-
strained, libcralzing and propagandist. The
North German Bund obtains release from the
necessity of futile attempts to enforce local rules
and laws easy of assertion but extremely diff.
cult in execution, and by receiving the returned
German-American citizen as an enfranchised
denizen OF the world-not tied down to any
particular State or principality of iatherland
| the federation gains much by the obliteraiiou
| Of little marginal landmarks which remain
merely as so many blotches on the face of hel
new map Of Homogeneous, united country
and which il will be impossible for The Soutl
German government to retain.
Commerce between Germany and the Unitet
States will be vastly increased by the NOR,
| free intercommunion of the countries, ant
when the wants and wishes of the tw,
peoples can be more readily mad,
known and easily carried into effect. Tn,
social fabric will also feel the influence 0
the new treaty. the United States receiving
still more German emigrants in what may b,
called the homespun. while Germany will be
visited every season by thousands for each one
heretofore Of our adopted citizens-who viii
| be glad 20 return for few weeks 10 the scenes
OF their youth 10 spend portion OF thoir man
fully acquired gains in genuine enjoyment, il
the promotion Of industry and the diffusion o
useful ideas, in the teaching Of corrcc
knowledge OF our institutions and the scttin,
down TO glass of native lager on the bank
| OF the Rhine: a freeman. uuptimidated b,