These views have also penetrated the high
est departments of our Government, and
now the Judicial and Exeoutive departments
no longer stand upon the principle of the
God given rights of liberty to all mankind,
but they adopt the despotic doctrines of
European sovereigns, and illustrate and en
foroe them by comparisons drawn from the
tyrannical alave codes of the Southern
State#.
We have already made extracts from sev
eral Southern papers asserting, in effect,
that the oase« of the naturalized foreigner
and the fugitive slave of this country were
identical. We now give another extraot
from the Norfolk (Virginia) Herald, en
dorsed by the Washington Intelligencer, to
the same purport. It will be seen that to
give force to the argument and illustration,
that papar puts it into tb« month of a for
eigner:
A shrewd though unpretending 'foreigner
in our city, whose name it is not necessury
to mention, in discussing the question as to
the obligation of our Government to absolve
naturalized citizens from contracts existing
between them and the Government of their
native oountry prior to their citizenship,
maintained that no such obligation existed.
