The national Republican., 1869-02-24
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Itb clear that the present Congress will
not have time to consummA,e the contemT
plated reforms In the pasufalisHtion laws.
Nevertheless, the larfs mass q testimony |
on which those reforms vii be based. are %
dlgested by the committes a 70 insuss
prompt and efficient action on the subject
during the first month or two Of the life and
action of the Forty-arst Congress. Efforts
are being mads by foreign born organiza-
tIons In New York. principally Germans,
protesting against taking from State courts
Of record the power 10 naturaIlse. They |
will not prove effective with Congress, inso.
much a. the naturalization frauds on large |
scale have all been traced 10 the officials Of
such courts, who, In these times, arc invari-
ably earnest partisans Of the party upper
most where such courts are located.
pnBAucHnp OFFICIALS.
The proof before Congress shown that
such officials are debaushed men In the mat
ter Of issuing naturalization papers, either
by the violence and venom of their political
partlsanship, or by tho money raised by
party for what are termed the expenses Of q
canvass. So long as State judges are
elective, and therefore dependent on the
votes Of corrupt and corruptible city constltu-
encios, and so long az their subordiuates are
appointed for political services Of worse than
questionable integrity, State courts naturali-
zation will simply be Wholesale fraud, when
that may be necessary to give the semblanee
Of majority to the political party In the
interest Of which the court Ia run. This Is
humiliatlng confession, but Its truth is now
unquestionable.
PURITY OF UNITED STATES COURTS.
From the beginning Of the Government to
even charged with knowingly issuing fraudu-
lent naturalization papers. Tho practice In
United States courts In this matter has been
so slgnally different from that Of State courts
as to make Congress realize that by conan-
ing tho power to discharge this duty to the
former only, the remedy for the evil will
surely bo attained.
CERTAINTY OF THE RKroRx. ...r
As nine tcnths OF the naturalization frauds
Of the times are against the Republican
party, the public may rely on 1t Congress
will put an end to them. They will decline
to listen to appeals In favor Of permitting
State courts TO continue TO naturalixe, come
from what quarter they may. In making
| the change, the facilities for honest natural
ization will not be increased, not diminished.
Tho current cmbarrassments TO honest nat
publications grow almost entirely out Of the
| facilities for issuing fraudulent papers.
With those facilities cut of, honest appli-
cants will be far sooner and better served
| than Of late.
TIE CUBAN QUESTION.
The impression that the Cuban resolution
will be success gains ground here daily.
Many Of the public men In Washington are
already calculating on going to Cuba to come
back to Congress and the Senate here, and
to hold such offices as they can get in that
| quarter. Their idea Is that Cuban inde-
pendence will be rapidly followed by Cuban
annexation, Of which fact there can be little
doubt.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT on FILLrBusTERTNo.
The manner In which our whole people
have abstained from participating In the
Cuban rebellion, Is regarded as an evidence
of the increased power and facilities OF the
United States Government to control the
spirit and personnel Of fillibusterism, Of /
may be allowed to coin very clumsy word.)
1t Is certain that there is a greater DISPOSE
ton land on the part Of u more influential
class Of the community to help Cuba than
there was to invade the island, when that
was not very long since attempted from our
, ports. The preparations Of the State De-
partment TO preserve our neutrality at this
time are too well known to the sympathizers
to permit them to run the risk of attempts IA
violate the law.
THE BARRIERS LIKELY SOON TO Be OVER
LEAPBD.
My own impression Is that If Spain docs
not soon make some headway In the work Of
suppressing the rebellion, the reVolutionists
will manage to get American assistance,
which seems alone necessary TO make their
current effort success. l have no idea tina,
this Government will turn Its hand over to
help the cause OF Spain In the island.
THIS GOVERNMENTS s''rRoBABLE POSITION.
1t will simply discharge Its duty to its own
(naturalization) law, while heartily wishing
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to all laws OF moral or national afiinities, and
to those of self-intcrest beside, for this Gov
ernment TO fall TO sympathlze earnestly with
the Cubans. So l have no idea that 1t will
hesitate to give them indirect II not direct
aid so soon as II can do so withou. subjectine
;, itself to well-founded roproaches of other
u powers.
. GRANTS ADMINISTRATIONS.
u shall by no means be surprised to I'm
= Grants administration taking much NOR
. advanced position on the subject than tina
occupied by our State Department at thi
II time. Grants well-known views with refei
cncc to Mexico lead me to this conclusion
There are other signs, however, pointing 1
10 the same direction, Of which do not thin
n 1t prudent to write, In view Of my own carr
Is est wish to sec the Cuban revolution sui
lie cess. or course no American would objeC
IS to Cuban annexation, II 1t eau be brougt
1t about without acts dlshonorng us Us nj
of tion. believe our Government will abstai
a longer from aggrandizing itself by the acqu
W sition Of Cuba, than any other powerf'
h Government would with like opportunities.
70 EIhOfEAN AClui5iIioNo VI IEhhitoht.
m The history Of all wars on the continent
Il Europe prove that not q single considerab
y European Power falls to get all ii can, an
J. to keep all Ii gets without the slightest r
lie gard for the "vested rights" Of the weak'
'e Powers SO despoled. The principle of Il
l. Government Of the United States In sue
T. matters Is based on much higher standai
of right and wrong than that Of any Eur
3 pean Government, all Of which were bori
h not of the consent Of the governed, but {
). tho power of the powerful to appropria
n whatever they could grasp. True to the
Il origin, they have continued to despoil eac
re other, forcibiy, on every passing occasion
a Not one Of them would fail to wrest Cub
ID from Spain tomorrow on some pretext
ic quarrel with her, but for the lion on Il
I'd path-the United States.