The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-08-04
Sar,oris and steinkauler.


yesterday baptized into the Wesley
an fold at Long Branch with much
propriety and solemnity Every
body, of course, wishes the infant
and his parents all possible happt-
ness. Although his father is All I'M
naturalized foreigner, and he himself
has been born in New jersey, there
is no doubt that he is citizen OF
the United States, and that, as a cit
izen of the United States, he may
live either to Gil the high official po-
sition now occupied by his grandsire
without deserving it, or to deserve
that position without filing it. The
immediate encourage of the White
House probably will be inclined to
hope that he may win the position
whether he deserves it or not. The
rest of the country will do better for
him by hoping that he may deserve
it, whether he wins itor not. But in
justice to many myriads Of this
young gentleman's infant compatri-
OTIS, we cannot refrain from improy-
ing the occasion which now for the
first time introduces him conspicu-
ously to the public eye for the pur-
pose of impressing, not exactly upon
him who is happily as yet superior to
the petty questions which yex ma
turer souls, but upon his kinsmen
and friends, the important though
somewhat humiliating fact that for
the prospects opened to him by his
American citizenship this newly hap.
tized babe is absolutely indebted not
to the patriotism or the intelligence
Of his Presidential ancestor, but to
the magnanimity and good sense Of
the British Government. IL the
Presidents son-in-law had been
German and not an Englishman his
child would to-day have, had no
rights as an American which Germa-
ny need respect. The Presidents
son-ln-law is British subject still,
has his donicile in England, and no
doubt expects tocarry his child thith-
er. If England had not made with
us out Of her own free will and com.
mon sense in 1870 a treaty which
comedies to British subjects natural
lied in this country all the rights of
Americans, even though they should
subsequently re-establish themselves
in England, the Presidents son.in-
law might have been naturalized
without securing to tho Presidents
grandson the rights and privileges Of
an American citizen; and in case of
a revival by England Of her old prac-
tice of impressment in q naval war
with this country, the grandson Of
Grant might have been compelled,
and that with the consent Of this
country, to serve at the platform Of =
IssWoolwich Infant" against tie Stars
and Stripes. For only two years be-
fore tire liberal and sensible natural.
ization treaty Of 1870 was negotiated
by Lord Clarendon with Mr.. Motley,
President Grants fayorite Minister,
Bancroft, negotiated and signed on
Washington's birthday treaty with
North Germany, under which Presi-
dent Grants Attorney General, Mr..
Pierrepont, has just decided that the
minor son Of a naturalized American
citizen now residing in Germany, q
youth as completely liable, not to
say as likely, to be needed for tho
Presidency of the United States as
the babe yesterday baptized at Long
Branch, may be lawfully impounded
by the German Government and
made soldier in the Imperial Ger
man army OF course having con-
coded this to Germany we should
have been compelled to concedc this
to England also, had England chosen
to demand it. England was wiser,
more just at once, more polite aud
more generous with us. But for this
We owe our thanks to England, and
not to President Grant. President
Grant has consented to make a Ger
man soldier Of the youthful Stein
kauler. That the youthful Sartaris
runs no risk of being forced either
into the blue jacket Of a British sea
man or into the red coat of a British
soldier, he owes not to his grandsire
nor to the fidelity to liberty Of biz
grandsire's administration, but to th,
liberality and the enlightenment 0
the European monarchy to which BIZ
father owes alleg.ancc.-[New Yorl
'lWorld.
I, "A PHILOSOPHER asserts that til