The executive department of this Government has hitherto uniformly held, as it now holds, that naturalization in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States absolves the recipient from his native allegiance.
Johnson emphasizes the importance of naturalization laws in absolving individuals from their native allegiance.
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The orders issued by me upon this subject are in accordance with long-established usage and hitherto unquestioned authority.
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.
Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson.
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject of the murder by the inhabitants of the island of Formosa of the ship's company of the American bark Rover
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