This is only one from several hundred who were arrested on that day. In this city the attempt was made by a Mr. Davenport. who is said to have been the author of the election law we now desire to repeal. to strike from the list of voters of the city of New York four or five thousand naturalized citizens. who had been voting.uuinborruptedly without challenge since 1868. To give this House and the country some idea of the despotic power assumed by this individual. the intimidation. the insult. and the humiliatisn offered to naturalized citizens. I will now read an extract from the remarks of one of the counsel for one of the arrested men: Such a scene as the room of the court presented on that election day has never befote been witnessed in this city. or in this country. and it is to be hoped never wilt aei . From early morning until after the polls were closed these rooms were packed and jammed with a mass of prisoners and deputy marshals.
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