The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-30
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tlonallty. 1t is of these that Baron Mann
teuftel, the predecessor of Bismarck as
PruSslan minister OF foreign affairs so bit
terly complained that they excite the jeal
ousy of the populace and haunt their
American citizenship even in the face of
the authorities. My constituents are part
of these proud adopted people. There are
nearly one hundred thousand such Ger
mans in my district. They belonged origi |
nally to every part of Germany Some OF
them left Germany owing certain so-called |
military duties. Some have political disa- |
biities. Many might to-day be prescott
ed there under new religious edits or laws |
The treaty with North Germany and the
proposed act are intended to punish such
for believing that naturalization in the
United States means what it says. They
do not believe citizenship is mere illu
sion. 1t is this class who have reason to
love the country of their adoption They
burn with desire to make others also par
Elephants in the blessings Of that liberty
which they themselves enjoy, and whom
the policy of Prussia under Bismarck and
Others before him would so wish to repel,
that they should not return and induce a
still larger number of Germans than are
homes on this side of the Atlantic. That
Bancroft's treaty might be termed con-
vention to impede German immigration to
this country, and the bill before the House,
Ibegotten in the spirit Of that and other
similar treaties, could appropriately be en-
titled AN act to discourage immigration
to the United States" For myself, and
} Representing a hundred thousand Germans,
| do 70 h,r1r +ha ouA oil
the good folk of Germany to this land, to
meet and kiss her kith and kin here Our
race so needs replenishing and are not
the Germans so thrifty, good, and prolific?
Who could help us better?
The true policy of this Republic lies in a
direction opposite to this BILL Not that
| my friend from Massachusetts Mr.. E. r.
Hoar does not intend, if possible, to be
mutual not that he has in his nature any
thing of that old spirit of federalism in
connection with the alien laws which this
| country got rid of as early as 1902; not
l that he would not welcome people from al
lands to this CONTRIBUTIONS them hear
tily and give them privileges and citizen
ship; certainly he would not place the ne
groes, who, born in Canada and the Yves
Indies, have become without naturaliZa
. ton United States Senators and c0nstitu
ton makers, above our German or lrisl
fellow citizens But, in spite of all b,
may say or do, this bill does go in an opposite
direction | am so glad to be able to sa,
. he means well when he does wrong.
! Instead Of surrounding the citizen afte
leaving our shores with anirksome net -worl
of technical observances, the outgrowtl
of the feudal relations between king an
subject and lord and vassal, clogging hi
progress at every step, or abandoning bin
- to the mercy Of those from whom he wa
y separated, the United States should loo
upon every one of their citizens abroad
from the highest to the humblest, as a vo
untary and effective missionary in tn
cause Of republicanism. Sir, | woul
o. throw around him the shield Of our pre-
lection under any and all circumstance
Iwould copy the policy of Jackson and Ma
IS CIV. ! would do this until he himself renoul
ces his rights; until ne becomes recreant
country and voluntarily assumes allegiaut
to another. This actual voluntary chan!
1h of allegiance alone, and nothing else,
7 meant by the natural and inherited rig
of emigration aud expatriation.
y Sir, the mere duration of residen
abroad, although it is fixed in some Of Il
treaties at two years, should be allowed
work no such change Of relation as this b
c0ntemplates.
| think that the numerous colonies
American citizens in foreign states shou
stand as republican outposts in monarch
cal countries They should dissemina
intelligence as to our.country; they Shot
attract new recruits to our h0me-army
freedom.
In this way the United States could C
onize the whole world. England with
her wars and endless bloodshed has failed
make herself loving and kind Itwas in t
pre- eminently kind and liberal spirit Il
Congress passed the act Of February
1855, declaring that
Persons heretofore born or hereafter to be b
out of the limits and jurisdiction of the I'M
States, whose fathers Were. or shall be at the t
OF their birth citizens of the United States shall
deemed and considered, and are hereby declare
be, citizens of the United States PrOrided, h
ecer, That the rights Of citizenship shall not
scend to persons whose fathers never resided in
United States.
Mr.. Caleb Gushing, ] have been told,
the author of this act, being then Att
ney General of the United States, and
stands monument Of his foresight
sagacity The proposed bill runs cour
not only to this, but also to the act of Is
and must prove exceedingly injurious
the best interests Of the country. {
crest should adhere to the doctrine wi
prevailed before the advent Of the inn
tic and injudicious Bancroft treaty, a
which all the subsequent treaties on
subject seemed to be modelled. Admit
as it is but just to admit, that every
has natural right to expatriate himse
- must be borne In mind that,in the terse
guage of Judge j S. Black, ''expa
- ton includes not only emigration out
one country, but naturalization in
country adopted as a future residen
Hence incline to a principle totally al
rance with this bill, and | consider
principle distinctively and truly Ameri
that no mere residence abroad, how
protracted and wherever it may be, ca
vest one of the rights and correlative
ties of American citizenship or relieve
int Government of its obligation to PR
ned the citizen except by his own free will
,,o pressed by becoming fully natural
5 in do not believe my honorable Fl
Eht!. from Massachusetts is Liberal Nor {
sers believe he desires to be illineral; but
ioaa bill does march in the contrary direC
F pTst from that which always made Amer
mite citizenship honorably and beautifully
tractive. And although we may have
, yo.- eeptional cases although we do have
In, ficulties growing out of our being a
: no land; although we may have our X,
saCs and Cuban cases, yet all these except
cases might well be tolerated, provide
StO hold over all our citizens the splendid
iJ Per of American citizenship. Can we no
this without detracting from Its full