Why. if at all. should we cast off this adopted citizen ? Above ull. why should we discaim tli aativebornboth beiig guaratteed protection atlikaitt less tiie than we prescribe for a foreigner to put oii the robes of or citizenship ? No matter how many years an alien may have resider in the United States he shall. two years before beoming entitled to citizenship. declare his intention to renounce forever ell allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince. potentate. state. or soverignty whatever. and particularly. by nanle. the prince. potentate. state. or sovereigity whereof such alien may. at tne tivte. be a citizen or subject. and lie is by the law denominated an talien" until his final naturalization. So that werecognize for aliens a citizenship of birth or adoption umder circumstanees where it is proposed to deny it to Amerieims. The intimation seems to be that this term of two years is named because several of our treaties with foreign powers have designated it. This is a inistahe. By mest of these treaties citizens of one nationality are demied ant taken to have beceolne citizens of tir ether by a continuous residence of live years iii the territories of the other and by naturalization. and are to he treated as such. Naturalization alone is required ill several. It is true that by the treaties with Bavaria. Denimark. Hesse. Mexico. the North German Unioi. Sweden and Norway. and Wti eiberg the intent not to return may be heel to exist when the person iaturaized in the one country resides more that two years in the land of his nativity. but no limit is placed on a native born and ne( on a naturalized citizen when abroad except upon a renewed residence in the ltd of his birth. It will be noticed that England it her izeaty with us claimed no such resumption of British nationdity. and only stipulated for it with us. where the nativeborn of either country after naturalizatios inl the other should publicy renounce such tinturnltization. and elect to resume his original nationality within two years from the conclusion of the treaty. In Lat Virginie (5 Robinson) Sir William Scott declared. what has ever since been recognized is law. fhiatIt is also to be remembered that the native character easily reverts. and thaft it requires fewer circuaistiiices to censtitute a domicile in this aso of Ito nativo zubject than to inpress a ational character on one who is originally of another country.
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