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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The distinction between aliens and citizens. (search)
naturalization, his act of election had the legal effect of making him a citizen of the State to which he had removed. This difference results from the relation created among the several States of the United States by force of their Union. Such has been the universal understanding, and instances without number could be referred to where citizens of other States have, by this mode of election, become citizens of North Carolina, (Chief Justice Ruffin, the late Judge Strange, Judge French, Judge Heath, occur to me,) and where citizens of our State have ceased to be such and become citizens of other States, simply by the act of removing and settling there. It follows that when the State of North Carolina withdrew from the United States and became one of the Confederate States, you, like all of her other citizens, became a citizen of the Confederate States; so, of course, you do not fall back under the description of "an alien." Indeed, being already a citizen of this State, and as