That there was no such difference. I think. may be fairly assumed from the facts that the complaints and warrants were all alike. all being printed forms. all ging the same offense in the same language. and that there was not a solitary conviction secured on any of them. The evidence taken by a committee of this House during the last Congress an I reported in Miscellaneous Document No. 23. shows that about ninetyfive hundred persons who were naturalized in the superior court in 1868 registered an l voted in the city of New York at the election of 1876. but the result of the sysitem of intimidation inaugurated and carried on by the chief supervisor of elections and his subordinates was that only twelve hundred and forty such pe -sons voted at the Congressional election in 1878. 1 t is therefore almost selfevident that about 8.000 voters. nearly all of whom w( re Democrats. were Illegally deprived of the right of suffrage in a single city at that election. When these eight thousand men voted the party of the Executive had but one Representative on this floor from that city. but after they hare been driven or dragged away from the ballotbox it has three. I make po further comment.
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