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I presume the gentleman is righit. because the statement has been incorporated in Lawrences report. which I will say I regard as about as unreliable a political document as I have ever examined. Mr. Davenport further says that this same system of naturalization was carried on in 1869.. Therefore we may expect that at the next congressional election he will have every man arrested who attempts to vote upon naturalization papers issued in 1869. Now. what is the pretense that this supreme tyrant sets up for his actions? His protense was that these courts did not keep euch a record of these naturalizations as they should have kept. and therefore that all of these naturalization papers Were void. That very question has been before the cireuit court of the United States since that election. and the court has decided that the record which was kept. called the index of naturalizations. was a valid record. and that that objection was not good as against those certificates. [esre the hammer fell.1