I have not made these remarks in order to avoid anything that has been said in favor of these legal technicalities. Apply the most rigid principles of the rules of evidence. and still Captain White is entitled to his seat. unless he is a perjured man. and that I do not believe. nor does any one else believe it. Now. taking the view that I have stated of the Constitutionthat no law book. no report. no outside authority of any character is entitled to influence our judgment here unless we see cause to yield and listen to ittaking this view. or any view in which it has been presented. let us see whether Captain White has been naturalized or not. Upon his examination this question is put to him: "You may state whether or not you at any subsequent time procured a final certificate of admission to citizenship." His answer to that question is. "Yes. sir. I did." and he proceeds togive detailed circumstances of time and place. as follows: In the year 1865. in the latter part of February. about the 2Sth of that month.
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