AMERICAN NEUTRALITY THE ENLISTMENT QUESTION.
London, 26th March 1856. strikes me that the nnes and 'probably Lord Clarendon have omitted an important feature in our endeavour to raise recruits in the United States,—namely, that we never anticipated that native-born Yankees would be induced to enlist, but rather, that disappointed emigrants might ; amongst whom would be found very many British subjects, and political refugees from various parts of Europe. I =Tsar will venture to say that, not one single native-born Yankee would have enlisted in our service as a private soldier. Virtually, therefore, we were not making any attempt to entice Yankees into our service, but sojourners in their land ; by which their position as a neutral power in the war could not have been affected. The United States law of citizenship cannot affect their adopted citizens returning to their old allegiance if they think proper to do so ; or, if they prefer •transferring their citizenship from the United States to another country, cannot, in like manner, prevent their doing so. How indiscreet our Government was in employing agents at all in the 'Tufted States, when one hundred pounds expended in advertisements in the Canadian newspapers would have answered every purpose ! as some of the Canadian flea:Bp:4)0ra have a wide circulation in the United States ; and in many instances the advertisement would have been copied into their news-
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