Bell went to him on the Friday prior to the election and told him thcy had come to see him in regard to that one especial fact. whether or not lie had taken out his second papers and wasnaturalized. Mr. White stated thathe had no recollection where the papers were. but that hethought he had been naturalized. But I call the 6ttention of the House to the fact that it is nowhere shown in this record. not one single witness hints at such a thing. that when this question was up for discussion. when the public prints teemed with it. when the public mind was excited over the question of Mr. Whites citizenshipwhether ornot lie was naturalizedwhen that one pregnant fact presented itself to his mind. he never did say that he was naturalized in 1865. nor does any person say pending that hot discussion that he was present when he was naturalized. as lie now asserts. in 1865. It is passingstrange to me. with everything to arouse his recollection at this crisis. when he conferred w.th Messrs. Purman & Colerick. his lawyers. and other adviser4 as to what he should do in regard to that matter. that he was silent as to his naturalization in 1865. And they concluded the best thing he could do undar the circumstances was to goto Warsaw on Monday and take out naturalization papers there. I believe it hardly possible under the known laws of the operations of the human mind at such a crisis as that. at that supreme hour. no matter how dormant a mans memory might be. that he could not recollect that single supreme fact in his lifes history. I think it is impossible he should forget it then and only remember it after this controversy came up.
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