The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-30

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR
EATURALIZED CITIZENS.

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
The sudden and somewhat peculiar manner
in which Kellogg's Attorney General sprung
the question, as to the right of the Second
District Court to issue naturalization papers
AID the lengthy opinion furnishedby him, al
short notice, in defense Of his position, have
induced many persons of an inquifing turn o.
mind, to ask whether Kellogg's Attorney il
entitle to the credit Of having raised the poin1
or whether the brilliant idea Of DISTINGUISHING
nearly ten thousand Of the citizens of Louis
lana, originated in the mind Of some one
higher up the government ladder than the
said attorney may ever hope to climb, even in
these degenerate days.
The inquiry has recalled to our mind the
correspondence, several years ago, between
the Chancellor of the German Empire and
the Government at Washington, in which
Bismarck held that no subject Of the empire
could denationalize himself by any allegiance
he might assume to any other power, and
that any German returning to Germany after
an absence of no matter how many years, was
subject to be drafted into service.
zen of any nationality became, according to
the forms of law, q naturalized citizen of the
United States, he became entitled to the pro
lection of the Cove eminent and could not be
fopnaH into %ho ~ ofhop
Our recollection of the matter is that, Bis
marck did not press the point, but virtually
yielded it with some reservation about such
German subjects as should at the time
changing their nationality, owe military SER
vice to the Empire.
Not long ago case came up, wherein q
German citizen, Of New Orleans, who had
been regularly naturalized by the Second Dis
trict Court, left this city and went to Germany
on visit, without going through the form Of
having his naturalization papers endorsed as
regular by the German Consul here He was
seized, on his arrival in Germany, and held to
service. The case was in due course referred
to the Washington Government, and Attorney
General Williams referred the matter to Kel-
logg's Attorney General Field and District
Attorney Beckwith, the former happening to
be in Washington.
The time was just after the late overthrow
of the Kellogg Government and when in the
opinion of the Radical party leaders, stringent
and extraordinary measures had to be restored
to in order to save the State to the party
With three such erudite lawyers and pot
house politicians as Williams, Field and Beck
with bordering over the subject, what wonder
is it that such a result was arrived at?
What wonder that, in view of the urgent
party necessities in Louisiana, it was deter
mined that the poor German should be
left to the mercy of Bismarck; that
thousands of the best citizens of Louisiana
should be DISTINGUISHED and denational-
ICED by the unwarranted and outrageous
that the Second District Court of
this State was not court vested with authon-
ty to naturalize citizens?
Thus we see aSain, as we have never failed
to see before in all our troubles, the hand of
that arch conspirator Williams.
It is not too much to say that every crime
committed against our people during the last
NIX years is directly traceable to this man Will
Jams and to his super-serviceable tools, Pack
lrd and Beckwith. These men have deliber-
Itely conspired to strike down the liberties of
he people of this State, and have hesitated at
nothing that was necessary to advance the in
erests of the party. Every right of citizen
hip has been trampled upon, and outrages
AVE been committed, the very remembrance
# which is revolving.
This last atrocious attempt to throw out the
'otes of thousands of white citizens while
every facility to the negroes to vote
s often as they may feel inclined will, unless
re are sadly mistaken, prove political
the danger of which was scarcely
appreciated by the three conspirators from