Sheesh. Go read it carefully. It addresses criteria for allegiance, and unequivocally states place is the most important and what applies in the United States.
You want to argue “Ok, he says place is the most important and what applies in the United States, but he really meant that only for Congress, not for any other office?”
So glad you can read his mind in retrospect, and know that he didn’t really mean what he so clearly declared.
Notwithstanding the fact that some months later the entire Congress decreed that "Place" didn't matter when they passed the "Naturalization act of 1790." James Madison himself voted on that law.
You want to argue “Ok, he says place is the most important and what applies in the United States, but he really meant that only for Congress, not for any other office?”
That was the topic at hand; whether or not Mr. Smith was a citizen of South Carolina and therefore became an American citizen when the rest of the South Carolinians did.
So glad you can read his mind in retrospect, and know that he didn’t really mean what he so clearly declared.
He declared nothing regarding "natural born citizen". By the Laws of South Carolina in 1758, William L. Smith was a citizen. Nothing more. There WERE no "natural born citizens" old enough to be members of congress in 1789.