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Is it strange. let me atsk before I proceed. that of the number then present there should be few remaining. after the lapse of twentythree years. who have not been garnered in by the grim reaper ? Twentythree years from now ]tow many of us will be alive to tell of the transactions of this day? But to Jenkinsons testimony. found on page 188 of the record. and I insist here that his testimony taken all together must satisfy the mind of any reasonable man as to the final naturalization of Captain White. or else the witness. who is of good repute. as all admit. is testifying to that which is false. Now I adnit. as a matter of course. that in the twentytwo years that have intervened between this transaction in court and the time when Mr. Jenkinson was called to testify. the details had passed out of his nmind. and he admits it like the itonest. honorable. and truthful man that he is. but he says: I think Captain White was naturalized within one or two years after his re. turn from the warat Fort Wayne. and that Iwas presentasa witness or a spectator. I am not sure which. I think I was a witness. however. Then. in response to a rigid crossexamination. he is asked this question: If tme contestce was naturalized at the time you say he was. please say who were the witnesses. Answer. My impression is that a gentleman named Brown and myselfThus corrohorating the testimony of White himselfMy impression is that a gentleman named John Brown and myself were the witnesses.