Think of this. you who profess to believe in the binding force of the fourth amendment to the Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons. houses. papers. and effects. against unreasonable searchers and seizure. shall not be violated. After Judge Friedmans decision. and with full knowledge of it. just before the fall election in 18T8. Davenport directed a clerk in his employment. and who was also a deputy marshal. to swear to complaints against every man who had registered in 1878 upon the certificates issued in 1868 except the six whose naturalization was entered in full in the minutes of the court. These complaints alleged the belief by the complainant that a crime had been committed. but. as he himself admits upon his examination. he bad no personal knowledge whatever of the person complained against. had no eouversation with the supervisors who furnished information as to the registry. and. with the exception of the two hundred and fifty complaints which he himself filled up. out of three thousand one hundred. he know absolutely nothing as to the truth or falsity of any one fact stated in the complaint so sworn to. These complaints were verified on the Sunday and Monday preceding the election. and upon them Davenport issued warrants of arrest.
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