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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1868

France.

La Liberté has another editorial calculated to allay the general discontent and uneasiness which have been inspired by the recent warlike preparations of the French Government. The writer says that the United States Legation at Paris, is continually overrun with Frenchmen, who are anxious to escape the military service to which they are now liable under the provisions of the new Army bill. Knowing nothing of the American laws of naturalization, and having only the lately concluded Prusso-American treaty in their minds, they are literally besieging the United States representative for naturalization papers. Of course all the applicants were refused, lacking the five years' actual residence in America, as required by law.