Tilden or Horatio Seymour or any other gentleman you might name as a candidate. no man could have the slightest doubt. It would have been no loss to your party whatever that those two distinguished democratic patriots. Judge McCnnn and Judge Barnard. had been impeached and driven from the bench. no loss that they could not once more naturalize citizens and send them to the voting precincts at the rate of one thousand to fifteen hundred a day. It would have been no loss that they could not summon men into their court and administer the oath of citizenship to one hundred and fifty in a batch. It would have been no loss that the democracy could not have had assisting them the twentytwo rumshops that were discovered in the city of Now York peddling out blank naturalization certificates to the extent of over eleven thousand in some twenty days. Oh. gentlemen. if you could have enacted into law this bold. bad amendment that no military or civil officer should keep the peace at the polls. you might well forego William M. Tweed and Samuel J.
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