Among those who were thus seized and arrested for being improperly registered was a respectable member of this House from the State of Louisiana. then a candidate for Representative in Congress. a man who was speaking in public day by day. yet he was arrested with others. showing the purpose to be not the protection of the ballotbox from fraudulent votes. hut to use the power of the Federal Government for the purpose of keeping legal voters from the polls. Now turn to the city of New York. Nine thousand warrants issued. nine thousand affidavits made upon the direction of the supervisor. he having no knowledge of the men against whom they were made. knowing nothing except as he said that he had made up his mind that naturalizations which took place in 1818 were necessarily fraudulent and illegal. although in precisely the same form and with precisely the same entries as had been had in the same courts from the year 1854although many of these naturalizations were made in a court where the present Federal circuit judge of New York presided as one of the judges. In spite of all this. the supervisor procured to be made nine thousand warrants. and when the issuing and service of the warrant did not deter the voter from expressing a desire and determination to vote. he was locked up in the cage of the supervisor and held till the poll was closed. or until he promised to abandon the idea of voting. when he was permitted to gofree. Andthis radicals call preserving free and pure elections.
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