The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19

Washington special OF the l4th says:
After the Senate this afternoon had passed over
n great mass of petty bills on the calendar Sena-
tor Dan Voorhees, Introduced resolution which
served as a basis of speech ON the policy of the
state Department In the matter OF the American
suspects now 10 confinement III Great Britain. Al
first very little attention paid to what the IN
diana Senator had TO say; but he had apparently
entered into the subject with a. great deal more
than his usual earneStneSS, and the result was
that before he had been talking five minutes he
had the profound attention Of the entire Senate
and the
PACKED GALLERIES.
The latter part OF his speech was the nearest ap-
preach 20 anything like real eloquence heard In
the Senate for some time There was a veia of
hearty paitrOtiim and loyal indignation through
out the closing paragraphs that called forth mods
Of approval and at times hearty applause, that
was with difficulty checked by the chair The
senator showed a marked contrast between the
policy of the Government when Marcy was Seere-
| tary of State and the present Administration.
Senator Voorhees, read an extract from a letter
the right of eXpatriatiOn could not at that day be
doubted or denied in the United States But"
/ Of General Csss, from which have
| read, the law of American honor,
strene III and glory was announced in such
majesty of truth and power that Tecur TO it now
/ III these degenerate days with the feeling of
/ traveller in the burning desert as he approaches
the cooling, healing waters of fountain in the
depths OF a grove. VIM. l.. Msrcy-h0nOred forever
/ be his namet-what American read his i'm
moral letter 70 HulSeman, touching the arrest
ana imprisonment Bl MdTllu hOstLA HN lne AUS
trian Empire, without feeling his patriotism kin
ole into flame and his pride of country rise high
toward The zenith2 on the Goth day of SepteIn-
Der, 1858, the great Democratic Secretary of State
proclaimed the following grand uterances to the
| listening, expectant, ana wondering nations Of
the eaIth:
Whenever, by the law of Nations. an indiyid-
usl becomes clothed with our national character.
/ 10 be q natye-boTn o. aturaized citizen, an exile
/ driven from his carly home by pslI.iCsl Oppres-
/ sion. emigreut enticed from II by the hope
| of hotter fortune Tor himself and his pQgtgrifv
he can
CLAIM THE PROTECTION
Of this Government, and it may respond TO that
claim without being Obliged 10 explain its con-
dUcs 10 any foreign power; for il is its duty to
make its nationality respected by other Nations
and respectable in every quarter OF the globe. In
ternstional law looks only 10 the national charac
| ter in determining what country has the right to
protect II a person goes from THE country
abroad with the nationality of the United States,
this law enioins upon other Nations 10 respect him
In regard u protection as an American citizen.
! "KOstza was not yet citizen Of the United
states, continued Mr. Voorhees,; The had simply
| declared his intention TO become one. Nc
SWeeneys naturalization papers are full and com
] Iiete hOstza had uomlclle in this country less
/ than two years; McSweegey has resided a we'll
known and successful business man, a quarter OF
/ century in San Francisco
Mr.. Voorhees, again q9oled from Mr. Marcy the
following language:
Giving eject to these well established principles
/ and applying them TO the facts in the case they
result. III tnat kOStJa acquired, while in the
\ United States, the national character; that he re
| ldlutQ IkAL character W0en ne SeIZ Il at
| smyrna, aud thar he had right 70 be respected
ss such while there by Austria and every other
foreign power, The power Ot a Nation to protect
ana REQUIRE others to respect.et home and abroad
all who are clothed with its nationality. is no
new doctrine now for the first tine brought into
operation by the United States IL is common 70
ali Nati0us and has had the sanction of their prac
tees for ages; butt Is new that at this late Pc
riod when the United States asserts a claim To it
as COMMON inheritance, IL should at once be
discovered that It is doctrine flaught with dan
/ ger, aud likely TO compromise the pesce OF the
world. yhe United States sees no cause for alsrG
and nc reason for reBOnncing for themselves what
Others have so long and 50 harmiesSly enjoyed.
Mr. VOORHEES, then continued
| Sir these are high heroic words and they well
/ become the occasion. an American sloOp.of-war
| the st. Lsuis. Captain Ingrahszn commanding
| had, vita shotted guns ana lighted matches, res
certain death the person OF a walderer and an ex-
lie, who had
BARELY TOUCHED OUR SHORES,
but who, in that brief stay, had clothed himself
with the mantel of American nationality. The
Imperial House of Hapsburg demanded that the
1 Government of the United States should deliver
him up 70 Austrian vengeance: that IL should dis
| avOw the conduct of Captain Ingraham aud all
the American agents in the affair. punish them
severely and then tender 10 Austria such saiisfac
ton as she Eaight deem propOrionate 70 the OUT
force this demand upon the United states,
| Austria applied to the principal pow
bsr0 90 sSa sr an1 t hhegsTsy induced
regard to It's duty IN the premises. Ii was under
these circumstances, with the whole world look
/ ing on, and with all Europe sn sympathy
mortal communication TO the representative
of Austrian power and despousm. The Hunga-
risn refugee was not delivered up; the conduct
! of Ingraham and other American agents at
Smyrna was not disavOwed; theySwere not pun
I ished; they were honored, aud no other kind of
satisfaction than this ever rendered TO the
Empire OF Austria. Manifestations of applause
IN the galleries. Now American Secretary of
State is content for the British Government 10 IN
form him distinctly, through the American MI
ister that II is none of his business why American
citizens in British Jails; that the cause Of their
arrest will not be given, aud that they shall
neither be tried nor released. The contrast is
complete; it can go no further.
Er. Voorhees, concluded as follows
There are nearly IO.OOO.O00 American citizens
andtlnhabitants now OF foreign birth EsThey me
not here as aliens in blood, with race prejudices
against them They are our kindred; their blood
aud ours cOmmingle. We are of common parent
stock Shall they be denied the protection OF
those institutions whieb they helped 70 purchase
at so dear cost. and which they have done so
much 10 uphold and honor? Sir, there are no~
five Se1ators on this floor who boru subjects
of Grea< Britain-three in Ireland, ore in Scot
land and one IN Eagiand. Shall they fail
un0er a.e law of suspicion IL they should
revisit their native homes, be arrested the
pleasure OF the British Government cast into dun
geO9s without sworn charge and held there in
definitely without trialf They are
As LIABLE TO SUCH A FATE
as Daniel MeSweeney or any other natHralized
cEssen, and under the serylle policy of the DE
po1NhltLt "a SAFE anu LDWtn lHel WOu1Q
mata in their cells instead of returning to their
seats in this body. II has been announced that |
an eminent American woman contemplates a visit /
70 her imprisoned son In Ireland. Mrs. Parnell |
would doubtless be arrested as suspect !" There
is twofold reason why the suspicion .of British
spies would haunt her-she is the mother of one |
who believes his people ought to have chance TO
own their homes, aud who loves liberty and ius- |
ttce well enough 70 suffer for them. She IS like
wise the daughter OF Stewart, OF the IrOnsides |
who saluted the British flag on the high seas i'm |
1872 to better purpose and with far greater pro. |
priety than the salute of October last /
at Yorktown. Applause in the galleries |
L Mead for the right of this ,ronan