It seems to me. sir. that an alien sufficiently attached to the institutions of this land to link his destinies fully with this people. ought to look with pride upon the evidence of citizenship and to treasure it with sacred care. and not place it where the rats might gnaw it. -the moths destroy it. thieves steal it.. or the elements rot it. It- seems to me he ought to have a place foi it and to be able to say. "I know I saw this paper which made me a citizen of the grandest government ever vouchsafed by God unto man at least once in twentyone years." But not so with the contestee. If he ever had what purported to be his full naturalization papers. according to his own evidence. he had no place for it. and paid no more attention to it than if it had been a t fling rag. instead of the evidence of high American citizenship. He lnew not where it was or where it ought to be. where lie had put it. or what had become of it. So far is the evidence shows his eyehad never rested upon this important paper from the time he says he received it in 1865 down to the hour he was examined and his deposition taken.
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Aliens should treasure their citizenship papers.