Author : W. Notman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781334150258
Book Description
Excerpt from Portraits of British Americans, Vol. 3: With Biographical Sketches In the course of that parliament, he introduced his famous alien bills. The first was to naturalize aliens, and the second to provide for the disposition of the estates of aliens. It is said that these bills occasioned much excitement, and were disliked, because they were supposed to be especially beneficial to the party whose chief had introduced them. There is little doubt the prejudice existed, though we are not aware of the reason for it. In those days, it was contrary to public policy to offer encouragement to foreigners to resolve themselves suddenly into British subjects. The bill was introduced, it may be conjectured, because in the interests of property, as well as of individuals, an alien law was required. Moreover, had the initiative not been taken by the tory party, the liberal party would most probably have committed them selves to a more extreme measure of relief, and thus have added a new care to their anxieties, who wished to preserve unimpaired the retreat for suffering loyalty. The bills passed both houses, but they were reserved for the signification of the King's pleasure, and did not become laws. 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.