It is regretted that you deemed yourself justified by an impulse of humanity to grantsuch an asylum. You have repeatedly been instructed that such a practice has no basis in public law. and. so far as this Government is concerned. is believed to be contrary to all sound policy. The course of the diplomatic representatives of other countries in receiving political refugees upon such occasions is not deemed sufficient to warrant this Government in sanctioning a similar step on the part of the representatives of the United States. Among other objectionsto granting such asylum. it maybe remarked that that act obviously tends so far to incite conspiracies against governments that if persons charged with offenses can be sure of being screened in a foreign legation from arrest they will be much more apt to attempt the overthrow of authority than if such place of refuge were not open to them. That is very much in the tone of Mr.
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Granting asylum incites conspiracies against governments.