I have dwelt too long on this question. Thou comes a more important question. to me perhaps the gravest of all the objections to this bill. cree that is the provision contained in the third clause of the second section expressly excluding froc the benefits of citizenship within the United States various classes of persons who have heretofore been such citizens. This legislation isof tire character to which I referred in my opening renarks as most objectionable and most undesirable and least in accord with the dignity of the United States. with the obligatious which it owes to its citizens. whether nativebort or naturalized. and with the rights of such citizens. This provision under five different clauses excludes from citizenship five diflfrent classes who have heretofore fully enjoyed those rights. The first provision of exclusion is that of citizens of the United States. naliveborn or .iatnralized. who may be naturalized as citizens of antother state or who may enter into the civil. naval. or military service of any foreign nation. Now. the first sentence of this clause is certainly to ha deeued unobjectionable. Under the doctrinoof the right of expatriation. which tire United States have always hold. the fact that a citizen of the United States has become naturalized and the subject of a foreign power certainly ought to rterminate his citizenship in this country. subject of coarse to the right of renewing that citizenship under the laws of the United States whetver he shall retirn to this country. which can be done uidor the present naturalization laws. But the second section of the clause I certainly consider dangerous and unwise. and especially impolitic to aeopt without ais important amnendment. That division of the cluate cuts ot" from ciitizeushlip of the United States absolutely. witbhont aisy power of reclamation. all those of its citizens who may enter into the civil. naval. or military service of any foreign prince or state. or of any colony. district. or people foreign to Wice United States.
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