Otside of and beyond the meager and lifeless records of the Oepartmut of State. a. few letters front the American iniister to the American in prison have found their way into the public press. They tlrow a light on our foreign policy at this time which ought to le fully tnderstood and thoroughly condemned. I did not suppose that at this late day there was any doubt in any intelligent mind as to the equality of the naturalized with the nativeborn American citizen in his right to the protection of his Governnen. I thought that question forever settled by the diplomatic writings of Case. Marcy. Webster. and other great Secretaries of State in past generations. But in this it seems I was mistaken. The Atmerican minister at London asserts a distinction between naturalized and nativeborn citizens of the United States as odious to every principle of jusice as the ancient spirit of the alien and sedition laws. Let the following letter attest the truth of this statenient:
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