The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-24
The Degrading German Treaty.

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The Degrading German Treaty.
The outragcs pcrpctrated on our German.
American citiZcns under cover OF tho de-
grnding convention with the North German
Union, now Incorporated into the German
empire. will not voluntarily bc rcdrcsscd or
rectiiicd By the Fraudulent Administration
Ut Washington. They have grown from bad
70 worse III descending from GRANT to
HAYES.
With BANCROFT DAVIS representing Grant
isru at Berlin. the naturalized German WINS
deprived OF his rights and all protection as
citizen, after two years residence In the
land Of his birth. even II ho had gone there
to educate his children, who were American
by birth. The case of Young SrEiNHAUER
Is still fresh in the public mind. ns mon-
strous perversion Of this intolerable treaty.
by which the Gcrman-American citizen is ex.
ceptcd from the privileges enjoyed by nat
uraliked citizens OF all other nationalitics,
and Is stamped with brand of nteriority
outside the limits oi the United States. He
was born in St. Louis, OF naturalized parents,
and had never been in Germany until taken
there to be educated. At the usual age he
was conscripted into the German army, and
BANCROFT DAVIS. so far from defending the
rights OF a citizen. equal in all respects to
his own, acquiesced in the outrage and was
sustained at Washington by an opinion OF
that remarkable Acknowledgement, most
known for communicating with dear Lady
MARY in the spirit world, who held that
though conscrpted as subject owing
fealty 10 the Emperor WILLIAM. he might
yet become President OF the United States
Mr.. BAYARD TAYLOR has followed in the
tracks OF has predecessor with n subscr-
viency that stamps his true character, by O
public Official notice. countersigned by the
Department OF State that every naturalizei
German, upon landing at any port in Ger
many. shall hasten TO report himself to
the police authorities, and thus be held
under surveillance during the time of his
soiourn. To him citizenship is delusion
and n snare, and a passport, with the Off
oial spread eagle, pretending to guarantee
the fullest protection abroad, is wretched
mockery, which lowers him to the footing Of
asuspected person, required to report his
presence wherever he may 20 within the
limits OF the empire.
1t seems almost incredible that a conven-
ton with such offensive determinations for
one side, and which puts 1t in the power Of
. foreign Government to annul American
citizenship after two years residence in
Germany, should ever have been signed at
all, or sanctioned by an American Senate.
But it is more surprising still. after the
enormities committed undcr it were ex.
posed, that no steps were taken To put an
end TO this diplomatic disgrace. and to re-
store the great body Of German American
citizens TO the equality to which they are
entitled, and to the full rights assured by
the Constitution and the laws OF the land.
The fifth article OF the convention de.
clares:
The present convention shah 20 into .c.,, ,-,,,.
datey on the exchange OF Publications and shall con
unue IN force for ten years II neither party shall have
70 ,'e o'''' "a months previous nouge OF IA IN
main in fore. unt the end nj ,e,. ,no,,n.
Of the contracting parues shall have gwen nouce to tho
other Of such in'ennon"
The ratifications were exchanged at Ber-
lin. May ., 1868, and consequently the treaty
would have expired more than four months
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