Remarks on the English Enlistment Question: With an Abstract of the Correspondence Thereon (Classic Reprint)

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The writer has had no means of information other than those afforded by the public press. He has not been pro fessionally engaged or consulted by any or either of the parties alleged to be implicated in the violation of the Act of Congrem respecting foreign enlistments; and his reflec tions may be regarded as those of a perfectly disinterested observer. Ou the 23d J annary last he published in the N. Y. Herald a letter upon the question as to what is the true spirit and meaning of the Act of Congress prohibiting foreign enlistments in the United States, and the hiring or retaining bf persons to go abroad, with intent to be enlisted m foreign service. Having thus embarked ln the discussion, he feels constrained to support his position by a review of the cor respondence between the English and American Govern ments, which was published in the newspapers in the latter part of February last.

In addition to the letter before referred to, the reader will find the substance of that correspondence, and a co pious extract from the Opinion of Mr. Attorney General Cashing, (as published in the N. Y. Herald, ) with various remarks on the questions of law and fact involved m the discussion between the two Governments.

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