That is the same John I. Davenport. " In the case of persons who present themselves to vote. where a warrant has been previously issued. you will see that such persons are arrested upon the warrant upon so presenting themselves. and before voting." This instruction was faithfully obeyed. and on the day of election hundreds of naturalized citizens who possessed all the qualifications required by the constitution and laws oi the State of New York were arrested at the vols. dragged away by these deputy marshals. and deprived of the right of suffrage. The pretense upon which these outrages were committed was that the records of naturalization kept by the superior court of New York in the year 1868 were defective. and that therefore the certificates were void. The truth was that precisely the same kind of record. and no other. had been kept in that court for a period of fifteen years. under the administration of nineteen different judges of both political parties. Hon. 17dwards Pierrepont. late minister to the court of St. James. being one of them. that between fifty and sixty thousand persons had during that time been naturalized in precisely the same manner as these persecuted men. and many of them had been voting and exercising all the other rights of citizenship without question for twenty years: and that before these arrests were made a State judge. in an able and elaborate opinion. had expressly decided that the record was sufficient and the naturalization valid. Notwithstanding these facts. about which there can be no dispute. these nine or ten thousand persons. who had in good faith procured their papers in 1868. were selected to be the victims of as vile a political conspiracy and persecution as was ever set on foot in the history of any country.
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