Lawyers werecalled in. politicians were called in. He had gone to his home and made a search for this certificate and he states that he did not find it. that he did not find his marriage certificate. that he did not find his honorable discharge. Let me say to you that no man can find in the record any statement that those papers were together with his naturalization papers. He says himself that he does not recollect whether he sent home his honorable discharge or not. But then what occurred? When this consultation was held did he at any time say to any of his friends that he was naturalized in 1865 ? No. not once. Did he send any one to the court to see if the record would show that he was naturalized in 1865 ? No. he made publications in the paper and asserted that he was a citizen because he was a soldier. He did not at any time or place in the presence of any witness brought here say anything at all about 1865 until he did so on the stand in March of the year following.
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