...Messages of the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance with Resolutions of the Senate, Information Relative to the Compulsory Enlistment of American Citizens in the Army of Prussia, &c

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G. W. Bowman, printer, 1860 - 247 páginas
 

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Página 135 - The moment a foreigner becomes naturalized his allegiance to his native country is severed forever. He experiences a new political birth. A broad and impassable line separates him from his native country.
Página 176 - On the contrary, every nation has an exclusive right to regulate persons and things within its own territory, according to its sovereign will and public polity.
Página 102 - SIR: I have the honor to inclose to you a copy of a resolve* of the legislature of this State in favor of Ebenezer S.
Página 133 - He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Página 54 - ... however oppressive the rule might be, a foreign government could have no right to interfere with its execution. " If, then, a Prussian subject, born and living under this state of law, chooses to emigrate to a foreign country without obtaining the ' certificate ' which alone can discharge him from the obligation of military service, he takes that step at his own risk. He elects to go abroad under the burden of a duty which he owes to his Government. His departure is of the nature of an escape...
Página 175 - The undersigned, her Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note which Mr.
Página 52 - I N. LEGOWSKI, Administrator. Mr. Barnard to Mr. Everett. No. 93.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Berlin, December 14, 1852. SIR: I have the honor to inclose you herewith a copy of a letter to me from Baron Manteuffel, in reply to my letter to him of the 3d of August last, in regard to the complaint of Christian George Born. It will be seen that Mr. Von Hassenkrug, the commissary of police at Minden, has on this complaint been removed from his post. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect,...
Página 215 - that property in slaves shall be entitled to the same protection from the Government of the United States, in all of its departments, everywhere, which the Constitution confers the power upon it to extend to any other property, provided nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or restrain the right now belonging to every State to prohibit, abolish, or establish and protect slavery within its...
Página 166 - Whereas the increase of people is a means of advancing the wealth and strength of any nation or country...

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