Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — How Easily Unpopular democratic Doctrine can be Recalled. [ARTICLE]

How Easily Unpopular democratic Doctrine can be Recalled.

The following says the Monticello Spectator is a fair specimen of the stability qf the ; present Administration. In the short space jiof twenty-seven days, the venerable ISecrej tary of State has turned a complete sumrneri sault. Whether the opinions, of the ExSenator were changed by advice or popular opinion, of course, does not appear; but that ■ the sentiment, contained in the first letter, as well as the changes so quickly made, show his imbecility and want of fitness for the. office ; is a fact to which Americans must listen with a blush of shame in time to come. Probably, no officia 1 act has ever degraded ! America so much in the eyes of the civilized world. The points in question will be readily-perceived, by these extracts from the three letters written, first to give publicity to a new Democratic doctrine, then to |setit ;to fights, and finally to crawfish out of the ■ whole affair. Leiter to Ze Clerk, dated June 11, 1859. “I have to state that it is understood that i the French Government claims military-ser-{ j vice from all natives of France which may be found within its jt risdictiori. Your nati uralization in this country will woi exempt you from that claim, should you voluntarily repair thither. L. Cass.” Letter to Hofer, dated June 14. 1859. “The position of the United Statete, as i communicated to our Minister at Berlin for I the information of the Prussian GovernI ment, is, that native-born Prussians,naturali ized in the United States, and returning to ! the country of their birth, are not liable to any duties or penalties except such as were existing at the period of their emigration. L. Cass.” T.ctter to the American at Berlin, dated July 8, 1859. “The moment a foreigner becomes naturalized, his allegiance to his native country is severed forever. He experiences a new political birth. A broad and impassable line seperates him from his native country. He -is no more responsible for anything he may say or do, after assuming his new character, than if he had been born in the United States. E- Cass.” (jyZ’A member of the North Carolina legislature made a decidedly good hit a short time ago. A bill was pending, which imposed a fine for selling liquor to free negrpes, to which he objected, on the ground that “such a law would make them more decent than the whites.”