Excerpt from The Oath of Allegiance to the United States Permit me, in the outset, to express my approval, not only of the matter, but also of the form of your resolutions. It ap pears to me eminently proper that Con gress should signalize the fidelity of our fellow-citizens, who have withstood all ap peals to self-interest and to fear, in their country's darkest trial. But I specially commend the moderation which pretermits in the resolutions any-mention of those who have been caught in the snares of the enemy, and duped into concessions which have filled the land with sorrow. So long as these unfortunate parties are debarred the privilege of a hearing - the govern ment, from paternal lenity, if not from a sense of rigid justice, may well feel itself restrained from open and direct censure. From the language of your paper, the world is not to know that a solitary indi vidual is excepted from the encomium pro nounced by Congress. Those familiar with all the facts, cannot fail, indeed, to'per ceive a discrimination in favor of some, which, by implication, contains a censure of others. This, however, is unavoidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.