There being nio objection. the memorial and joint resolutions were referred to the Committee oil Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed in the REcoRt. as follows: To the Senate and House of R)reentatioee of the nited State. in Congress aes#sbled: the undersigned. ciliensof thiCoseonweal thot Kentucky. as petitionsrs. wouhl reslseetfully mepreset that E. VM. Condon. a naturalized citizen gf the United States. is aow hcld by the governsont of Great ]ritain as a prisoner for a political offoseo which there is ao proof that he ever committed. Convicted with indecent haste upon testimony which even the law reporters for the British press felt constrained to protest against in a memorial to the English home oilier as lam. impotent. and inonclisive. the death penalty at first adjudged against him was ehanged to oen a harsher doom : iimprisontoent for life. It is an iilsputatlo fact that Condoe is a citizen of the United States. and as such has ioiled hiS life in defense of the Republic under that flag which we now invoke for his protectisn.
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