Each man swears that those who promised not to vote were allowed to go. and this oe man who did vote was told if he did he would be arrested again. though he had given bail. None of them were proceeded against. in the courts. no effort was made to punish them as an intimiation to men who might be disposed to violate the law. Thus you see how this power can be abused. how it was abused. you see how it will wrong a great many men in a State of the Uuiou the coustitution of which says "unreasonable bail shall not be exacted." Here these laboringmen. for nearly all of them seem to have been industrious men of good character. the only allegation being that they were naturalized in 1868. though they had voted ever sine. and yet for an offense of that kind $2.000 bail was exacted ard of some more. but when they promised not to vote they were allowed to go on their own recognizance. and they never board of the charge afterward. Shall these laws. this machinery to carry elections. be continued? Shall the Army be at the polls to aid in enforcing it ?
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