Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1859 — A Case for our Interference. [ARTICLE]

A Case for our Interference.

The Indianapolis Journalo f last Saturday says: “We learn from the friends of Mr. Frederick Rush of this ci'y, a well known and prosperous produce dealer, who went to Enroot some six or eight weeks since on a visit to his old home and friend- .;u almost immediately on his arrival in P ussh-i lie was claimed as a con-script, forced into the a 'mi/, j and is now held tiiere to serve out his three j years as a Prussian soldi°r. The report nay be erron ous, hut it is believed by his friends in tliis city. Mr. Rush is an American citizen. He is entitled to exemption from such service as entirely as ff he were a native born citizen. If we have, or claim, the right to naturalize a man, we must insist, on his right to abandon his allegiance to his former government, and to release him elf thereby from it. If we cannot do this, we cannot make a citizen of him, for we cannot superimpose an allegiance to our government up- ! on a full allegiance to his native government. The right of expatriation is just as clear as the right of naturalization. They are inseparable. Indeed they are but one right, for the two ate necessary to the con - plete act of changing citizenship. We of this country have always held to the doctrine of the. largest personal liberty, and hence have always insisted th m no man was irrecoverably bound to allegiance to any government. If he chooses to become a subject of another we have maintained his right to do so. Ag 1 **!!* 1 these view the European power's have uniformly held that no act of the citizen or his adopted nation release hint from any of the obligations to the government he was burn under, And the" have acted on this view sieadily, and with a quiet contempt of our claim that ought by this time to inspire something like vigor in our remonstrances. But. Mr. Buchanan is far more anxious to get German votes than to preserve the rights ot German citizens. When Gov. Wright, our Minister at Berlin, tried to recover an American citizen who like Fred. Rush, had be en snatched up as food for cannon during a visit to his relations, the Administration disapproved his act and left him with r.o support oi ttie nation against the indefensible injustice fie was combatting. We have no doubt that Gov. Wright will exert all his influence to secure the release ot Rmdi, 'or they were fell w townsmen here, and acquainted with each other, but all bis influence will be bli hted by the fact that the Prince Regent knows th„t our Administration will not sustain him, and admits the right of a foreign power lo impress our natuj ralized citizens iiuo its, army, or minder them lus deserters if they attempt to reeovv their I rights.”