The trouble with taking any such course. however. is that no -matter how this treaty is construed. no matter how any real question of difference between us and Russia regarding the construction is resolved. the treaty is and must always remain an unsatisfactory and Injurious instrument for us to continue by our assent. During the 80 years which have elapsed since the making of .the treaty there has been a very momentous change In the attitude of the greater part of the civilized world toward the sul)ject matter of the treaty. and we have shared in that change. The treaty In Its first article provides that the inhabitants of the respective States shall have liberty to go into each others territories ou condition of their submitting to the laws and ordinances there prevailing. and particularly to the regulations in force concerning commerce. and the tenth article of the treaty concludes with this paragraph: But this article shall not derogate in any manner from the force of the laws already published. or which may hereafter be published )y [ils Majesty the Emperor of all the Russians. to prevent the emigratia of his subjects. . There is what appears to be and Is generally considered to be a clear recognition on the part of the United States of tie right of Russia to prohibit the emigration of her subjects. In 1832. when this treaty was made. the United States equally with Russia maintained the doctrine of indefeasible allegian(ce. But shortly before. in the year 1797. the Supreme Court of the United States had asserted that doctrine in the famous Williams case.
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