I now give the gentleman from Indiana an authority which he will not gainsay. one of the greatest of living authorities. Lord Tenterden. who was a member of the joint high commission which framed the treaty of Washington. In his report on "naturalization and allegiance1 which led to the adoption of the law of 1870. by which the right of expatriation was recognized and affirmed in Great Britain. Lord Tenterden (then Mr. Abbott) says: The further claim to punish as traitors British subjects found in arms against their native country was practically abandoned when the prisoners taken in the United States service were uncnditionally exchanged in 1814 without having been brouht to trial. as threatened. * * It musthe remembered that the theory of treason Is the same in England and in the United States. * * * The right of impressment having been given up. and the doctrine of treason thus modified by practice. there does not now remain any claim which Great Britain need seek to maintain upon the allegiance of British subjects emigrating to foreign countries. The war of 1812 did then settle the question for which it was fought. and from that day to this American naturalized citizens have had equal protection under the law with those of native birth.
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