Gen. Grant. Here is section S of that platform: Equal rights and protection for naturalized and nativeborn citizens at home and abroad . the assertion of American nationality which shall command the respect of foreign powers and furnish an example and encouragement to people struggling for national integrity. constitutional liberty. and individual rights. and the maintenance of the rights of naturalized citizens against the absolute doctrine of immutable allegiance. and the claims of foreign powers to punish them for alleged crime committed beyond their jurisdiction. The next broad and comprehensive declaration of the old ante bellum Democratic doctrine was found in the platform of 1884. upon which Grover Cleveland was elected to the Presidency: We favor an American continental policy based upon more intimate commercial and political relations with the 15 sister Republics of North. Central. and South America. but entangling alliances with none. The Democratic Party insists that it Is the duty of the Government to protect with equal fidelity and vigilance the rights of Its citizens. native and naturalized. at home and abroad. and to the end that this protection may be assured. United States papers of naturalization. issued by courts of competent jurisdiction. must be respected by the executive and legislative departments of our own Government and by all foreign powers. It is an imperative duty of this Government to efficiently protect all the rights of person and property of every American citizen n foreign lands. and demand and enforce full reparation for any invasion thereof. An American citizen is only responsible to his own Government for any act done in his own country and under her flag. and can only be tried therefor on her own soil and according to her laws. and no power exists in this Government to expatriate an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for any such act.
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