Mosher. the machine man of Davenports office for swearing. and the reports made by a Senate committee show that in different years that man. within a few days. as fast as he could subscribe his name to affidavits. swore criminal offenses against from six to eight thousand people. How much perjury must necessarily have been packed away in that volume of oaths ! How could one man know and dare to state in the presence of Almighty God that he did know that six or eight thousand people in the State of New York had false naturalization papers or were not entitled to vote. and thereupon swear out warrants against them before they voted or attempted to vote. and put them in the custody of the deputy marshals in the city of New York for the purpose of arresting these men whenever they came in range of that battery of perjury ? Now. there is John Davenport. He has a man in his office who swears before him as United States marshal to the crimes of these six or eight thousand men in a lot. men about whose conduct he could not have known anything at all.
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