Staarbach to As the examining commission meets next Monday, I beg you to ask Mr. Sargent to take speedy measures to bar these proceedings, February 21, 1883

Mr. L. Staarbach to Mr. Vogeler.

Inclosed I beg leave to forward two military orders of the burgomaster of this place, from which you will perceive that the local police authorities have had the impudence to call upon two American-born citizens for military duty, a proceeding which caused a general indignation here. The two sons, Rudolph Staarbach, born in New York, July 13, 1857, and Julius Staarbach, born in New York, November 6, 1859, are not at all inclined to obey this illegal summons, nor even to leave the city, as they have formerly repeatedly been importuned to do in this matter, but they insist upon their American citizen rights; and are of an age when they can certainly not be interfered with in their actions, in spite of the opinion which seems to prevail here, that even those children who are born in America must needs follow the nationality of their father.

I would request you most urgently to bring this case before his excellency Mr. A. A Sargent, the American ambassador in Berlin, and ask his speedy help and protection.

I look forward to a kind answer as well as further advice how I am to conduct myself in the matter.

With much respect,