Directly after the election I came here and took my seat and served through the last session of the last Congress. Bat the governor of Utah Territory. having an idea that he had the opportunity to gain fame and make himself popular. entered. as I have full reason to believe. into a conspiracy with others to precipitate upon the country this question. for the agitation of which a favorable opportunity had been long sought. to thrnish some excuse for nullifying the election. and either mating the seat of the Delegate from Utah vacant. or have aman occupy it whom the people had refused to elect. I having been born in a foreign land. he affected to entertain the belief that I was not properly naturalized. At our last interview. before I came to Washington to occupy my seat at the last session. he told me he thought some question would arise on that point. I told him then that it was a matter which the House had already decided in the Fortyfourth Congress. that the question had been fully examined and adjudicated. and I thought there ought to be some time in a mans life when the statute of repose should intervene to prevent his being annoyed upon a question of that kind. especially after it had been so thoroughly investigated.
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