18 JUNE 1870, Page 2

The fierce jealousy of the Central Government still felt in

the United States was curiously illustrated last week by the House of Representatives when they "tabled,"—i.e., deliberately passed by, —the Bill for transferring the power to naturalize foreigners.from the State Courts to the Courts of the United States by a majority of 40 votes (102 to 62). Democratic, Conservative, and Repub- lican members all joined in denouncing the Bill as a revolutionary step towards centralization. Yet, while they think so, the people of the United States clearly are not, what they claim to be, a nation. No nation delegates its power of conferring or refusing the rights of a citizen, to a fragment, or, if you will, an organic atom, of itself. A body of allies, however close, is not a nation.